Later, steamboats that supplanted the keelboats came up to the fort with military supplies and merchandise for the sutler at the post and for merchants in that vicinity.
At one time Sam Houston was an aspirant for the position of sutler at Fort Gibson.
With the 28th comes Sutler Pullen again and until afternoon the rain continues; the 29th does not bring the change of camping place that so many wish.
The 6th brought the sutler again and opportunity to invest money for creature comforts at exceedingly high rates.
After the battle of Chancellorsville a member of Company D, from Spartanburg, took the sutler an oil cloth to buy.
Paying over the money, the sutlerwould throw the cloth behind the box, and continue his trade with those in front.
After the trade was effected, the sutler was seen to throw the cloth behind a box in the tent.
Thus, once when the sutler was being raided he hastily sent for the "officer of the day," whose business it was to keep order in the camp.
The sutler seldom enjoyed much respect, as how could he when he flourished and fattened on our hungry stomachs?
The mail buckboard had reported us to the sutler as camped out back on a little creek about ten miles.
Flood and McCann went into the post, as our supply of flour and navy beans was running rather low, and our foreman had hopes that he might be able to get enough of these staples from the sutler to last until we reached Dodge.
Flood replied that Scholar expected to go with the wagon, as he needed some supplies which he thought he could get from the sutler at Fort Laramie.
Among them were the wretched Sutlerand her husband.
In this assault the unfortunate sutler was a second time thrown into the sea.
For every officer and enlisted soldier serving at the post the sutler paid into the "post fund", from ten to fifteen cents per month.
Brown, who came as a drummer boy with Colonel Leavenworth in 1819, entered the employ of the post sutler when he ceased his connection with the army, and later he became an Indian trader.
The sutler was the authorized merchant of the post, and in order that his monopoly might not lead him to demand unreasonable sums for his wares, the prices were fixed by a "council of administration" composed of three officers.
Nearer the fort was the home of Franklin Steele, the sutler of the post.
The sutler had some imported ale and porter, which he was allowed to sell to soldiers; but as the price was seventy-five cents a pint bottle, very little of it was consumed.
The sutler had built a roomy store at Fort Randall, with lumber brought from St. Louis.
A sutler had established a store, with a miscellaneous stock of goods such as soldiers needed, also goods for trading with the Indians.
It was moderate enough, for the tailor's price as well as those of the laundress and the sutler were fixed by the Post Council of Administration.
Sometimes we could buy condensed milk from the sutler when not on a march.
We often bought calico of the sutler and traded it with the squaws for moccasins or furs.
The Indians had brought great quantities of furs with them, and trading with the American Fur Company and the sutler was brisk.
Boxes of plug tobacco were found, and a plentiful supply was distributed, for which the sutler was reimbursed.
We proceeded to investigate the interior of that tent at once, and found that it was a sutler's establishment, and crammed with sutler goods.
What may have been done to thissutler I don't know, but that was the last and only time that I know of bay rum being sold to the soldiers as a toilet article, or otherwise.
The regimental sutler was also found at City Point, with a cargo of supplies to be forwarded to the front as soon as he should be permitted to land.
A sutler put a barrel on tap, and soon had a crowd of thirsty customers.
The sutler crawled out from his tent to see about it, and stood transfixed with astonishment when he beheld the operation at the other end of his barrel.
The sutler indignantly demanded an investigation, and three officers, presumed to possess a scent for whiskey above their fellows, were detailed for the duty.
Now I have heard that the General blames the Field Officers of our Regiment with a good deal of that laughter; and that and this Sutler matter will make him provide a pretext for another Court-martial at an early day.
The Adjutant was forthwith requested by one of the crowd to suggest to the Colonel to reply-- "That our Sutler was a sagacious animal.
Who the h--l ever heard of a sutler being entitled to any justice?
Besides the indispensables of quartermaster andsutler the 210th had what might be considered a luxury in the shape of a baker, who had volunteered to accompany the regiment, and furnish hot cakes, bread, and pies.
Then trade slacked up, and the sutler was at a loss to account for it, as it was contrary to all precedent, the rule being that the more liquor the boys got the more they wanted.
The sutler was surprised to find a faucet in the rear end of the barrel as well as in the front end from which he had been drawing.
The sutler himself, two young officers, several soldiers and civilians, lay upon the floor dead, each with many wounds.
Once outside, we saw that the fort was not assailed; but upon looking over the stockade, we perceived that the house of the sutler was surrounded by a crowd of savages, plumed and painted in full fighting costume.
Judge Carter, the sutler and postmaster at Bridger, and a striking character in many ways, already had several large tracts under cultivation, by way of experiment, and the next year he expected to try more.
The quartermaster had received his wagons and teams and among other accessions a sutler had located his tent near the camp, and was working up quite a trade in ginger snaps and green gingerbread.
The sober-faced sutler merely nodded, evidently in no mood for pleasantry.
Sutler Bill" stood in the narrow hall watching her run swiftly upstairs, twirling his hat in his hands, his good-natured face flushed.
I 'd about as soon be in front as behind one of them cannon," answered the sutler soberly.
Yes; his name was Moylan, post-sutler at Fort Marcy.
They drew on past Sutler Street to Adventurer's Lane, the dingy section of that street wherein walked the treasure-farers of all the seven seas; and as they walked, Bertram began to speak of the things which lay close to his heart.
Our sutler gone to Nashville for a supply of goods on the strength of it.
The officer who had given him the friendly advice watched the bold sutler as he kept on his way with his "Henry," ready to pick off any Modoc who might be imprudent enough to show his head.
In one of the latter, a corpulent sutler was found, wedged in a corner, and much alarmed.
He, upon seeing the Home-guards flee, thrust his body half out of a window, and pointing to the stars and stripes still flying, apostrophized the fugitives in terms that ought to have made a sutler fight.
I am thesutler of the —— New York, up to the front.
The sutler had gone into camp to get another team to haul his goods in.
Many a sutler was ruined that night; with sad hearts they fell into line with the prisoners, and saw their wagons, with their contents, vanish in flames.
The sutler was too rich a prize to abandon, so I left the other man in charge of him and his wagon and hurried on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sutler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
