Not Exactly a Gun Amnesty; Ensuring Troops Get Their Goods from Home
Four notices from the pages of the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 27, 1861:
Help in kind for Ordnance Department
Ordnance Department of Va., Richmond, Aug. 7, 1861.
Notice — It is very desirable that all corps, communities and individuals in the State, having Arms of any kind — beyond those absolutely necessary for their immediate use — should return the same to this Department as soon as possible that they may be overbanled [overhauled?] and thoroughly repaired. Address,
C. Dimmock, Colonel,
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Chief of Ordnance of Virginia.
Colonel Dimmock wasn’t kidding back in August – Weapons Needed:
Arms! Arms!! Arms!!!
The undersigned urgently calls upon the people of Virginia to send in to his address all Arms not actually in the hands of troops — no matter how few — no matter in what order — as they will go into the field as soon as repaired.
No other person is authorized to collect these State Arms but the undersigned.
C. Dimmock,
Col. of Ordnance of Virginia.
Direct, “care Col. Dimmock, Richmond, Va. …
Other needs:
Ordnance Department of Va., corner 7th and Cary streets.
Wagons.–Persons who have furnished this department with wagons without boxes, are invited to call, as more are wanted.
C. Dimmock,
Colonel of Ordnance.
wanted.–Four good Blacksmiths are wanted, to whom good pay will be given. …
Rules for Care Packages:
Notice.
1. I.–Persons who are sending clothing and supplies to troops in the field, are requested to mark distinctly on the package (with marking ink) the name of the party for whom intended, the Regiment to which he belongs, and the place of Destination, care of Quartermaster at Richmond, to whom the usual railroad receipt should be forwarded by the shipper.
2. II.–Many packages arrive at the depots of the railroads in Richmond with paper marks rubbed off; of course their destination cannot be known by the Quartermaster. Others are imperfectly marked, and cannot be identified.
3. III.–All articles deposited at the Quartermaster’s Office in Richmond, for shipment, must be left there before 3 o’clock, P. M., to insure their shipment on that day.
J. Maury Garland,
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Capt. and Ass’t Q. M.
