Accounting for Boxes & Barrels from General Stone's Division, Army of the Potomac

Item DOC-9677

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Office Commissary Subsistence
Army of the Potomac
Washington, DC

November 18th 1861

General,

I have the honor to request you to direct that the Regimental and other acting Assistant Commissaries of Subsistence of the different regiments and other separate commands of your division turn into the Brigade Commissaries from whom they draw subsistence stores, all empty Barrels and Boxes not required for use. That they may be accounted for as required in paragraph 1223 Revised Regulations for the Army 1861.

I am General,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

H. F. Clark
Colonel and C.S. U.S.A.

To Brigadier General Charles P. Stone
Commanding Division

Official
Captain George H. Woods
C.S. Volunteers
Division General Stone

Document signed by Colonel Henry F. Clark, United States Army Commissary Department. Clark received brevet promotions to Brigadier and Major General.