Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army
1775-06-16
Chief supply office for the U. S. Army. This office operated a system of field depots and a transportation network to deliver the goods to the soldiers, also responsible for burial of war dead and care of national cemeteries from 1862. Civil war-era U. S. Quartermasters General: Brigadier General Thomas Sidney Jesup (May 1818 - June 1860), Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnson (June 1860 - April 1861), Major General Montgomery C. Meigs (April 1861 - February 1882).
Bibliography
https://quartermaster.army.mil/qm_history.html (accessed August 6, 2020).
"Previous Quartermaster Commandants," U. S. Army, Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Corps, February 21, 2019,https://quartermaster.army.mil/bios/previous-qm-generals/previous-qm-commadants-bios.html (accessed August 6, 2020).
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Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212861 (November 12, 2026).
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