T. J. Treadwell to First Lieutenant of Ordnance, May 23, 1861

Maj. F. J. PORTER, A.A. G., Hdgqrs. Dep’t of Pennsyluania, Philadelphia, Pa. :

Sir: In answer to your letter of to-day I have the honor to state, for the information of the general commanding, that only two thousand two hundred and ninety-nine sets of round-ball accouterments are to be received from the Philadelphia manufacturers. Iwill be able to equip the Seventh Regiment, at Chambersburg, to-morrow, and the Eighth and Tenth Regiments probably early next week.

As I have no further orders for accouterments to give out, my further supply will be derived from Newark, from a contract recently made to deliver twenty thousand sets at this arsenal, dated May 15, at the rate of eight hundred /or more sets per week, the first delivery to be made in ten days from date of contract. 1 will also receive from the Philadelphia makers eight thousand tive hundred sets of elongated-ball accouterments, and will be able to equip regiments requiring these at the rate of about three thousand sets per week. Ihave communicated with the Newark contractor for twenty thousand, requiring him to deliver first

_ five thousand sets of round-ball accouterments, and requesting him to send here as soon as possible any of this or any other kind he may have ready. Three thousand sets of round ball accouterments, ordered to Washington Arsenal, have delayed the supplying of the Pennsylvania

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‘ { ‘ eae’ > regiments from thisarsenal. I will fill the requisitions in the order desig-— nated in your letter as rapidly as the stores are received. “

Respectfully, your obedient servant,