Authors

Turner Ashby

Files

Download

Download Full Text (3.7 MB)

Description

Requisition receipt for the Confederate States’ Army for twenty bushels of corn, $14. Originally a United States form: in upper left corner “United” is crossed out and replaced with “Confederate.”

Transcription

To: Mrs Marg. M. Cunningham

Date of Purchase: 1862 Jan 16

To 20 Bus of Corn - c 70c : 14 dollars, 00 cents

I certify that the above Corn was furnished(?) my company whilst on detached service and that it was necessary to the public service

Walter Brown[?] Capt.

Compy E. Cavalry Regt.

Appd Turner Ashby Comdg

I certify that the above account is correct and just, and that the articles have been accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending on the 31 of March, 1862

Received at Martinsburg Va, the 23rd of January 1862, of Capt William Miller Assistant Quartermaster U.S. Army, Fourteen Dollars and ____ cents, in full of the above account.

Marg. M. Cunningham

No. 12

No. 02 Abstract A. 1st Qr. 1862

M. M. Cunningham

Dollars $14

Paid 23rd of January, 1862

Detached Service

Creation Date

1-23-1862

City

Martinsburg

State/Province

Virginia

Creator Life Dates

1828-1862

Keywords

Margaret Cunningham, 1862, corn, requisition, cavalry, Walter Brown, Turner Ashby, Martinsburg, Virginia

Resource Identifier

080324-01

Date Digital

10-6-2013

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Military History | Social History | United States History | Women's History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

en-US

Digitization Specifications

600ppi or 800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View, Fast Stone, or GIMP software. JPEGs compiled in PDF using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Confederate requisition signed by Turner Ashby

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.