Quartermaster records of Captain Norman K. Culver, Company B, Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865.

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Minnesota. Office of the Adjutant General. Quartermaster records of Captain Norman K. Culver, Company B, Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865.

Quartermaster records of Captain Norman K. Culver, Company B, Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865.

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Documents kept by Captain Culver, primarily while Company B was stationed at Fort Ridgely (March-December 1862). Culver served as acting assistant quartermaster and acting assistant commissary of subsistence for the post of Fort Ridgely, responsible for military supplies, transportation, animals, fuel, forage, and food. The records intermix accounts for the Fort Ridgely post and Culver's Company B. They include abstracts, estimates, inventories, lists, reports, requisitions, and correspondence documenting both the activities of the post and company and Culver's roles as quartermaster and assistant commissary. Of particular interest are the March 31, 1862 transfer of property and stores to Culver's responsibility and numerous returns, invoices, inventories and accounts for property and stores issued, expended, destroyed, and purchased; issues of food and equipment to Indians; statistics on civilian refugees at Fort Ridgely; lists of equipment and buildings destroyed during the battles; and some details on new construction following the battles. A small number of documents follow Culver's service with Company B as it participated in battle in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana (December 1862 - July 1863). Culver resigned his commission on July 13, 1863 and returned to Minnesota.

0.9 cu. ft. (2 partial boxes).

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