Plan of Barracks for the Convention Troops in Virginia

This 1779 plan for the Albemarle Barracks is preserved in the National Archives as one of the “various papers relating to the quartermaster’s department” during Continental Army officer Nathanael Greene's tenure in that role. It includes a reference page that reads:

• A. Two Block-Houses, each 30 Feet Square, 20 feet high to the square
• B. Two Hutts for two Sergeants and Guards
• C. House for the Main Guard—50 feet by 20
• D. Thirty-two Barracks of Ten Rooms each 16 by 18 feet clear of the Logs, the whole length of each Barrack, 228 feet.
• E. Four Barracks of Ten Rooms each 16 by 18 feet clear of the Logs, the whole length of each Barrack 190 Feet.
• F. Two Houses for Captains and Subalterns for Rooms each 16 by 18 feet the whole length of each Barrack 80 Feet.
• G. The Majors, and Lieutt Colonels Houses.
• H. The Colonels House.
• J. Two Store Houses, 200 feet by 18 clear of the logs.
• K. Necessary Houses
• aaaa. Necessary Houses within the Pickets to be but eight, one in the front, and one in the Rear of each Column of Houses.