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A.B. Eaton letter to John A. Rawlins, 1869

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United States. War Department. Subsistence Department

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March 30, 1869, letter from A.B. Eaton, U.S. army commissary general of subsistence, to John A. Rawlins, secretary of war, containing a statement made at the request of the commanding general of the army, W.T. Sherman, regarding the ""extraordinary issues of Army Subsistence now being currently made to the Indians."" With the intention of relieving the army of the duty by the end of the fiscal year, Eaton reports that the Subsistence Dept. was fe...
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Keywords

  1. American Civil War (1861 1865)
  2. Armed Forces
  3. Battle Of Washita River
  4. Cheyenne
  5. Civil War
  6. Cost
  7. Eaton, Amos Beebe, 1806 1877
  8. Equipment And Supplies
  9. Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820 1891
  10. United States
  11. United States. Bureau Of Indian Affairs

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