{"id":68563,"date":"2021-06-05T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68563"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T01:10:48","slug":"the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The arms and accoutraments have been procured and bills for transportation are presented."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">Keokuk loway<br \/>\nJune 5. 1861<\/p>\n<p>Major Ebenezer S. Sibley<br \/>\nActing Quarter Master Genl<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sir<\/p>\n<p>You will recollect that I was authorized by the Secretary of War to procure an outfit for the Iowa troops. The arms and accoutraments have been procured and bills for transportation are presented.<sup>1<\/sup> I have turned the main business over to Lieut Chambers mustering officer but I have made some necesary purchases which I think will be aproved and estimate necessary funds as follows<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"expenses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/expenses.jpg\" alt=\"expenses\" width=\"434\" height=\"136\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<p>You will oblige me by placing this sum subject to my check in the city of N. York.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Very Respectfully<br \/>\nYour obt Servt<br \/>\nSaml R Curtis<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>1. The accoutrements included cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbords, and waist bands. As early as May 20 they were reported to have left Pittsburgh. No tents were reported available in Washington, according to a report of Curtis in the <i>Keokuk Daily Gate<\/i> City May 15. On May 21, 2000 muskets arrived, reportedly from the St. Louis Arsenal, all smooth bores, altered to be fitted with percussion caps. These inferior weapons, the <i>Gate City<\/i> observed. &#8220;will answer for drilling and other purposes and are a heap sight better than nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keokuk loway June 5. 1861 Major Ebenezer S. Sibley Acting Quarter Master Genl Dr Sir You will recollect that I was authorized by the Secretary of War to procure an outfit for the Iowa troops. The arms and accoutraments have been procured and bills for transportation are presented.1 I have turned the main business over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Samuel-R.-Curtis-Representative-from-Iowa-35th-Congress.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}