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ordered to purchase and with a high sense of the importance of that de- partment of our armys being fully and amply supplied· I hope you will Loose no time in Placing at my disposal the Necessary means to accomplish that End- A. HUSTON Qr. M. Genral Texas Army
To Genl S. F Austin BT Archer Wm Wharton Commissioners
List of Articles, to be purchased by Col A Huston in N. Orleans
80001b, Lead 1000 Butcher Knives iooo Tomahawks, well tempered with bandies 100 Spanish Saddles (Opelusas) with red blankets 100 Pair Styrrups 100 pair Spurs 100 Sursingles 100 Bridles and Cabrases 10 Baggage Waggons with Geer for 60 Horses 150 Axes-150 Spades, 50 Mattocks 6 Sets Blacksmiths tools . 1 Set of Gunsmiths Tools, with Anvils bellows and portable forge 3 Set of Carpenters tools for field Service 20 Steel Corn Mills a patent portable hand mill 1200 Blankets 3½ point French Coloured 200 pairs Brogans from No. 6 to 12 225 Coffee Pots- 5 Medicine Chests- 350 Bbls Flour 200 do prime Ship bread 20,ooon. middling Bacon 50 Bbls Mess Pork (Inspected) 15,000lb Coffee 15,00on. Brown Sugar 120 Galls French Brandy, (first quality) 120 " Port Wine- ditto- 20 Bbls Cidar Vinegar 5 do Whiskey 5,0001b Bar Soap 5,000lb Sperm Candles 50 Bbls Peas or beans- , 3,000lb Chewing Tobacco. (Kentucky) The foregoing is a copy of the articles I am ordered to purchase Except the article of Flour that is only half the amount I am directed to pur- chase. A: HUSTON Qr M Genl
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