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Markland loaned the saddle to the Smithsonian Institution 1887 where it stayed for more than 70 years. It came to the Quartermaster Museum in 1968. "…perhaps one of the most prized objects in the Army Museum System." General Gordon R. Sullivan, former Chief of Staff of the Army. General Grant's Civil War wagon. On display is an 1861 Army ...
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (/ ˈ m ɛ ɡ z /; May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and military and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War.
At the end of the Civil War, it was the only depot in the Ohio Valley to not be disbanded. [1] In 1871 the U.S. Army decided to build an edifice that would contain all the individual units that had spread all around Jeffersonville. Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs designed the structure, which opened in 1874.
The Quartermaster Storehouse Museum is a recreation of the original quartermaster storehouse building built between 1900 and 1906, and was duplicated in 1999 using historical photographs, Army engineering condition reports, government documents, and was funded by the Friends of Fort De Soto Inc. and the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation ...
The Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement, which has been open since 2006 and displays Union and Confederate artifacts, is taking back its decision to close its doors at the end of 2023.. The ...
Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park is on the grounds of the former Yuma Quartermaster Depot. The depot was established by the U.S. Army in 1864 to store and distribute supplies to frontier army posts in what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
The Texas Civil War Museum is closing and its $20M in antiques are for sale. (It tried to show “both sides.” But there aren’t two sides of slavery.)
A Civil War museum in Texas that has faced criticism for skirting around slavery will be closing its doors at the end of October, according to an announcement the museum made online.