FORT LARAMIE The Cavalry Barracks Fort Laramie Furnishing Study

This appendix contains specifications and an illustration of the bunk and bedding which would have been found in the dormitory or squad room.

Specifications for Iron Bunks (click on image for a PDF version)

Specifications for Bed Sacks (click on image for a PDF version)

Specifications for Pillow Sacks (click on image for a PDF version)

Specifications for Blanket

Each blanket to be seven (7) feet long and five (5) feet wide, and to weigh five (5) pounds. To be gray in color, and made of pure long-staple wool, free from shoddy, reworked wool or cotton, or any impure materials; to have the letters 'U.S.' in black, four (4) inches long, in the center, and to bear a strain of not less than twenty-five (25) pounds per inch for the warp and thirty (30) pounds per inch for the woof without tearing.

Note: It is immaterial whether the letters 'U.S.' be stamped on the blanket or woven into the fabric.

Adopted August 15, 1873.