U.S. Army Uniforms and Equipment, 1889 Quartermaster General of the Army

U.S. Army Uniforms and Equipment, 1889Specifications for Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, and Clothing and Equipage Materials\nAuthor(s): Quartermaster General of the Army, Jerome A. Greene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803295520, 978-0803295520\nSynopsis\nThis rare book contains not only complete specifications but detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued. It is a valuable reference for articles used during the 1870s and 1880s, the period of the Indian wars.\n\nFor much of the nineteenth century, the production of military clothing and equipment was geared to national emergencies. During the Mexican and Civil wars, the hardpressed Quartermaster Department was forced to rely on civilian and, later, European suppliers. A contract system too often resulted in profiteering, inferior goods, and administrative confusion. By 1887 reforms in the syste.