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This form "No. 40 Special Requisition" details the requisition of 100 pounds of horse shoes, 100 frost nails, and 2 bushels of stone coal by a Confederate States unit. Turner Ashby signs as commander, a Captain William Miller signs as a Quartermaster. Formerly a U.S. form, altered to read "C.S." in one instance. Dated 3 February 1862, Martinsburg (present-day West Virginia).
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No. 40 Special Requisition 1862 Febry 3 For: One Hundred pounds Horse Shoes One Hundred Frost nails - Two Bushels of Stone Coal - [note: the inventory chart is been crossed out] I certify that the above requisition is correct; and that the articles specified are absolutely requisite for the public service, rendered so by the following circumstances: Horses needing shoeing. Jno Winfield Capt Capt McMillen a Quartermaster U.S. [note: U has been crossed out and replace with C] Army, will issue the articles specified in the above requisition. Turner Ashby Commanding Recieved at Martinsburg the 3rd of Febry 1862 of Capt McMillen a Quartermaster U.S [note: U crossed out and replaced with C] Army, One Hundred pounds Horse Shoes and One hundred Frost nails in full of the above requisition. Jno Winfield Capt [docket] No. 40 No. 29 Abstract K. 1st Qr. 1862 Capt. Jno Q. Winfield Special Requisition Feb 3./ 1862
Creation Date
2-3-1862
City
Martinsburg
County
Berkeley
State/Province
West Virginia
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1828-1862
Keywords
Special Requisition, Turner Ashby, Captain William Miller, 03 February 1862, 1862, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Resource Identifier
080424-26
Date Digital
April 2014
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Military History | Social History | United States History
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
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; Miller, William; and Winfield, John Q., "Special requisition for horse shoes, nails and coal, signed by Turner Ashby, 1862." (1862). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 224.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/224
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