Corcoran Used by Quartermaster General Meigs
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PrintMontgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army, occupies the Corcoran Gallery of Art as his office. The Army had seized the building in 1861 to use as a warehouse for records and uniforms. Note: The building now houses the Renwick Gallery.
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 18, No. 329. "Journals of the Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1846-76, Reports of Committees, Statistics, Etc." William J. Rhees, ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1879, p. 163.
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