Shirt maker

title: Shirt Maker

equipment needed: make hand-written receipts with your name on rag paper, copying from the quartermaster's book. Cut and prepare for sewing a linen shirt.

costs: linen

planning lead time:

permissions, etc:

documentation: The Calendar and Quartermaster Books of General George Rogers Clark's Fort Jefferson, Kentucky, 1780-1781 lists receipts of items given to women in payment for making up shirts at the fort. EX: P. 87 "Paid N. Hunter for making ten plain and three ruffled shirts, seven yards calico" or "paid M Murray for making three plain shirts, one pair scissor and one linen handkerchief."

Still trying to find the doc that says George Washington set his slaves to making shirts, and was disappointed they could produce not 9, but only 6 shirts per woman per week.

Nurse

title: nurses

equipment needed: linen to make lint and bandages, bottles of vinegar, a volunteer sick soldier

costs:

planning lead time:

permissions, etc: if a doctor will be at the event, advance discussion will be needed

documentation: What did they use for bedpans?

Camp followers, general

http://revwar75.com/library/rees/pdfs/Introduction.pdf. Ron Reese on Camp followers: numbers, duties, etc. Good overview.

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2009/historian5.php: article by Holly Meyer

http://revwar75.com/library/hagist/britwomen.htm Don Haigst on British women Camp followers

Scavengers

A camp follower scenario has come to mind this morning. A few scavenging women go onto the battlefield immediately following a battle and pick clothing, shoes, musket, etc., off a fallen soldier. -Celeste Sandor