United States Subsistence Department

Creation Date

1818-04-14

Entity Type

Organization

Created in 1818 by act of Congress to replace the United States Commissary's Department. Responsible for purchase and distribution of supplies that constitute military rations. Led during the Civil War by the Commissary-General of Subsistence: Bvt. Major General George Gibson ( until September 1861), Brigadier General Joseph P. Taylor (September 1861-June 1864), and Brigadier General Amos B. Eaton (June 1864-1865).

Bvt. Brig-Gen. John W. Barringer, "The Subsistence Department," The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief Theophilus Francis Rodenbough and William L. Haskin ed. (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1896), 67-82.

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