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Re: Bourland's Border Guard; A. P. Fletcher

The military storehouse could include almost anything.

These included cooking utensils, such as skillets, dishes, tin cups, knives, buckets and kettles.
Quartermasters also issued paper supplies. Records of most company commanders include requisitions for items such as muster forms, requisitions, receipts, envelopes and ink.
Quartermasters issued almost any kind of hand tool needed, such as axes, hammers and hatchets, even scissors and measuring scales.
They issued tents, coats, shoes, boots, jackets, hats, pants and underwear.
They issued horses, mules, wagons and all the equipment needed to outfit a wagon or a rider.
They issued firewood, stoves and lamps.
They were responsible for transportation by common means, such as by wagon, railroad or steamboat.
They were responsible for procuring labor for military tasks and supplies needed to construct buildings at an encampment or depot.

We could keep going, but you should get the idea. There are more than enough tasks a soldier assigned to duty as a teamster could do.

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