Confederate requisition for the purchase of three horses from Peter Alkine, signed by officers Turner Ashby and William Miller. 1862.

Authors

Turner Ashby, Confederate States Army
William Miller, Confederate States Army

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Description

A Confederate State's Army requisition for the purchase of 5 horses for "artillery purposes" at $135 each from Peter Alkine. Signed by Turner Ashby and Captain and Quartermaster William Miller. Dated February 28th,1862.

Transcription

No. 12. The Confederate States To Peter Alkin Date of Purchase 1862 Feb. 28 5 Horses for Artillery purposes at $135 each I certify that I sold Capt. Miller A.Q.M. the above Horses. and the price is a fair one [signed] Peter Alkine Appro Turner Ashby [illegible] Dollars $675. 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 31st of March 1862. [signed] Wm Miller Capt + A Quartermaster C.S.A. Received at Winchester , the 28th of February 1862, of Capt Wm Miller A. Quartermaster C.S. Army. six hundred and Seveny Five Dollars and -- cents in full of the above account. [signed] Peter Alkine [docket annotations]

Creation Date

3-31-1862

City

Winchester

County

Frederick County

State/Province

Virginia

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1828-1862

Keywords

Confederate States Army, William Miller, Peter Alkine, Turner Ashby, Artillery Horses, 28 February 1862, Confederate Requisition, Winchester, Virginia, horses, artillery

Resource Identifier

110418-17

Date Digital

April 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Military History | Social History | United States History

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with 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 and Miller, William, "Confederate requisition for the purchase of three horses from Peter Alkine, signed by officers Turner Ashby and William Miller. 1862." (1862). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 230.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/230

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