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Excerpt from Report of the Quartermaster General to the Senate and General Assembly, for the Year 1866 At the close of the last year, the war having terminated, there remained on hand at the Arsenal a large quantity of ordnance and ordnance stores, received from the United States upon requisitions for arming and equipping volunteer troops, and turned into the Arsenal by tr00ps mustered out of service, to be turned over to the United States. You are referred to Statement G for a particular account of the property thus turned over. This department has been engaged during the present year in making out returns of property purchased and issued to the New Jersey volunteers, to the accounting officer of the United States Treasury, in order to obtain a settlement of the claim of this State against the United States for expenses incurred in organizing and equipping troops for the United States service. The 34th regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, on duty in Alabama, was retained in service until the present year. On its arrival at this place on the 2d of May, to be paid off and. Discharged from the United States service, it was met at the depot by the mayor of the city, accompanied by a band of music and a large body of citizens, and escorted through the streets of Trenton to the State House, where it was received by your Excellency in a speech bidding it welcome home and thanking it in the name of the people of New Jersey for the honorable, faithful and important services it had rendered to the State and nation, and tendering to it the hospitality of the State. On the day following it was escorted to Bechtel Hall, where the men were given a sumptuous dinner, at which congratula tory speeches were made in commendation of their meritorious and arduous services in behalf the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.