On 20 Oct 1775, Col. Richard Gridley of the Continental artillery regiment presented his commander-in-chief, George Washington, with an “Inventory of Ordnance and Stores necessary for the present Army, supposing it to consist of twenty thousand Men.”
At the bottom of that sheet was a section headed “Ordnance, Shot, and Shells, now in Camp.” That listed: Cannon: 24 pounders, 5; shot, 449. 18 pounders, 6; shot, 260. 12 pounders, 2; shot, 149. 9 pounders, 3; shot, 1,175. 8 pounder, 1. 6 pounders, 2. 5 1/4 pounders, 4; shot, 1,134. 4 pounders, 7; shot, 1,475. 3 pounders, 9; shot, 3,079. 2 1/2 pounders, 2; shot, 1,009.
Total number of cannon, 41. Total number of shot, 8,730. Carriages, ladles, rammers and sponges, &c., complete.
Mortars: 10 inch mortars, 3; shells, 374. 8 inch mortars 2; 8 inch howitzers, 3; shells, 452. 7 inch brass mortars, 2; shells, 641.
Total number of mortars, 10. Total number of shells, 1,467. With beds, carriages, and implements, complet.
Border jumpers and a lack of paperwork: People had no official identification in the 1850s which allowed for Missouri residents to come into Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery.
This issue is known as Bleeding Kansas. As slavery was up for a vote in the Kansas territory, people from neighboring MO came across the border to influence votes and to vote themselves. With paperwork easy to forge and nothing official from the government it was easy to vote and move around anywhere. <span />
Murasaki was unconventional because she lived in her father's household, most likely on Teramachi Street in Kyoto, with her younger brother Nobunori. Their mother died, perhaps in childbirth, when they were quite young.
