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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.”
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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)
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.
Recommended Citation
Ashby, Turner, "Confederate requisition signed by Turner Ashby" (1862). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 15.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/15
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