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Sutler's tent at the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War A sutler or victualer is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp, or in quarters. Sutlers sold wares from the back of a wagon or a temporary tent, traveling with an army or to remote military outposts. [ 1 ]
Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy (2013) pp. 119–66; Rhodes, James, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, vol. V. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696 ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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During the Civil War a ten-gun battery was built on the river's west bank near the later Fort DuPont; this was rebuilt as a 20-gun battery in the 1870s but not fully armed. [ 54 ] In October 1878, a massive hurricane struck the area causing considerable damage to structures outside the fort.
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Lubrecht, Peter T. New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army (Charleston, SC: History Press), 2011. ISBN 1-6094-9132-7; Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
According to Kansas Civil War Monuments and Memorials, there are 105 counties in Kansas most have a monument to Union soldiers of the Civil War. Many were funded by GAR posts or Sons of Union Civil War Veterans, today the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. [33] Monuments and memorials in Kansas include:
These sutlers set up trading posts inside U.S. Army forts and were chosen by the regimental officers to do business. [1] This policy changed in 1870 when Secretary of War Belknap lobbied Congress to pass a law vesting sole authority in the War Department to license and choose sutlers at Western military forts.