Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph H Hickmans Manuscript Ledger For Clothing Allotments For Members

by Joseph H Hickman

$2,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Effingham, IL: 1898 - 1899. Tall, narrow ledger book, bound in buckram, with leather corners chipped . Hinges cracked, some staining to boards and spine, but text all legible. 38 x 15 cm., approx. 239 pp. of entries, for clothing issued to each member of Effingham, Illinois' Company G as they were outfitted for duty in the Spanish American War. Each soldier's name and rank appears at the head of a page, followed by the items requisitioned to him, the date and their cost. The front endpaper

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