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W. D. Tappe was
not in the Confederate army during the first half of the war; there is no biography in the National
Archives for him. Below is my biography. Entries in blue are references
and my additions
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W. D. Tappe was listed as
being from Tennessee, but I have not found him in the 1860 Census.
He served as a Transportation Agent until commissioned into the
Quartermaster Department and assigned to Tax-in-Kind collection
duties.
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| May 2, 1862 |
Approved a request
for trains to be maintained ready at Chattanooga for the use of the
Government. Signed as Transportation Agent C. S. A.
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| June 9, 1862 |
Approved a request
for a train to carry 700 men and a gun "over the Knoxville
road"
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| June 22, 1862 |
Approved a train for
troops from Chattanooga to Knoxville
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| June 27, 1862 |
Approved a train for
troop movement
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| July 7, 1862 |
Asked if it was
possible to buy 150 horses
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| January 12, 1863 |
Receives Subsistence
Stores for transportation from Chattanooga
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| March 17, 1863 |
Reported the number
of CSA cars in use by Navy Department
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| April 9, 1863 |
Paid as a
Transportation Agent at Chattanooga and claims the authority to pay
him can be seen on former returns and that he was to be paid by
order of the Quartermaster General
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| May 9, 1863 |
Paid as
Transportation Agent at Chattanooga
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| June 16, 1863 |
Paid as
Transportation Agent at Chattanooga
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| June 18, 1863 |
Appointed Captain in
the Quartermaster Department with a date of rank of June 16, 1863
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| July 28, 1863 |
Assigned to collect
Tax in Kind in the 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee
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| August 13, 1863 |
Claim presented to
the Government for payment for train service, approved by him, from
May 2 to July 2, 1862 (most are above)
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| June 30, 1864 |
Assigned to collect
Tax in Kind in the 12th Congressional District of Virginia
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| March 1, 1865 |
Made his February,
1865 reports
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