Rear echelon quartermaster

[frontrank2]

My apologies if this image has been posted before, but I couldn't find it.
An Army Quartermaster poses with a mountain of hardtack crates.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Thought the details written on the wooden box were interesting to read. These details are (from top to bottom):-

'50 lbs. Net
ARMY BREAD
FROM THE
UNION MECHANICAL
BAKING COMPANY
45 LEONARD ST.
BALTIMORE MARYLAND'

Believe the featured officer is Union Captain James William Forsyth, then U.S. Provost Marshall, sitting on a crate of hardtack. The photograph was taken at the large Union Army supply base at Aquia Creek, VA, in Feb., '63.
(See https://behind.aotw.org/2022/05/19/capt-james-w-forsyth-provost-marshall-1863/ ).

(Notably postwar, Forsyth commanded the 7th. US Cavalry at the 'Wounded Knee Massacre' in 1890 and later rose to the rank of M-G in the U.S. Army in 1897).

 

[frontrank2]

Thought the details written on the wooden box were interesting to read. These details are (from top to bottom):-

'50 lbs. Net
ARMY BREAD
FROM THE
UNION MECHANICAL
BAKING COMPANY
45 LEONARD ST.
BALTIMORE MARYLAND'

Believe the featured officer is Union Captain James William Forsyth, then U.S. Provost Marshall, sitting on a crate of hardtack. The photograph was taken at the large Union Army supply base at Aquia Creek, VA, in Feb., '63.
(See https://behind.aotw.org/2022/05/19/capt-james-w-forsyth-provost-marshall-1863/ ).

Good info, thanks!

 

[lupaglupa]

So this would be REQM? I know in World War II the abbreviation was REMF

 

[frontrank2]

So this would be REQM? I know in World War II the abbreviation was REMF

Not exactly.

 

[lupaglupa]

I imagine the Civil War soldiers had the same contempt and resentment of the men whose jobs posted them safely behind the lines, even if their slang was a bit different. They probably had their own version of SNAFU too.

 

[James Brenner]

I imagine the Civil War soldiers had the same contempt and resentment of the men whose jobs posted them safely behind the lines, even if their slang was a bit different. They probably had their own version of SNAFU too.

And FUBAR

 

[Biscoitos]

So this would be REQM? I know in World War II the abbreviation was REMF

And continued use during the Vietnam War. Therefore also during Korean War.
Any recent Veterans want to update us?

"In the rear with the gear" is more polite and less derogatory towards those in the rear. I.E. less commonly used in the military.

 

[Robert Gray]

A stereoview of Captain James William Forsyth.