The Indian Territory in the Civil War Message Board

Condemned government sales, 1868

Once, again, go to, Chronicling Amerca, via your favorite
search engine. This is the Library of Congress newspaper
site. By searching the site, "Fort Gibson Hospital", you can
find two identical 1868 listings for quartermaster and
commissary sales of condemned goods. One, is in a
Philadelphia newspaper, while the other is a D.C. paper.
Granted, the date is 1868, but the foodstuffs are most
likely late wartime or just after the war. As the military
was feeding the destitute and the freedmen just after the
war, then the food must have really gone bad for it not to
have been foisted off on these poor folks. Also, on another
newspaper listed on the same results page, is one of Peck's
articles on Honey Springs and the battlefield hospital and
surgery. Is that hospital location known?