Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, turned over by Col. L. Wister 150th Regt. Pa... partly printed document signed by Colonel Langhorne Wister (1834-1891). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 4 September 1862. 1 page, folio, docketing to verso.

An official U.S. Ordnance Department “invoice of stores” turned over by the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the "Bucktails". This document is dated in September of 1862 and includes the return of nearly one hundred sets of full infantry accoutrements including belt plates, buckles, appendages, bayonets, scabbards, as well as an equal number of Enfield rifled muskets. It is signed by Colonel Wister’s and details his comments regarding the rifles and accoutrements.

Wister began his service as a Captain in the original “Kane’s Rifles” or “Bucktail” regiment, the 42nd Pennsylvania Infantry, before being promoted to Colonel of the newly raised 150th PA Infantry in early September 1862. The regiment gained immortality at Gettysburg where they fought fiercely and suffered heavy casualties on July 1st, 1863. Colonel Wister was among the wounded (he was shot in the face). Wister would resign in late February 1864 and was brevetted Brigadier General in March 1865.


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