NA, N&C 9/30/1862

Confederate States of America
To Nashville & Chattanooga Rail Road Company
 
1862
For furnishing material and building Trestle Bridge at Cowan in Sept. 1862
 

12

Days work Carpenter (Foreman) @ $3.50 42 00
3 1/2     "       "            "                          "    3.00 10 50
84     "       "            "                          "    2.50 210 00
42     "       "            "                          "    2.00 84 00
67 1/2     "       "      Laborers                    "   1.50 101 25
22     "       "            "                           "   1.25 27 50
13     "       "            "                           "   1.00 13 00
19 1/2     "       "     Hauling                       "   3.00 58 50
24 Trees for bridge lumber                 "   1.50 36 00
1280 ft B. M. Lumber cross ties              " 20.00 25 60
210 lbs Rail Road Spikes                      "      15 cts 31 50
405 Bolts                                                "     18   " 72 90
88 Cast washers                                    "     10   " 8 80
$   721 55
 
   I certify on honor that the above is a correct account of the expenses for material furnished and labor done rebuilding Trestle Bridge (destroyed by the army at Cowan), in compliance with an order of Majr. Genl. Saml. Jones to rebuild such Bridges as had been destroyed on the Nashville & Chattanooga Rail Road, so as to pass trains over them, and that the material furnished and work done was necessary for the passage of trains over the Bridge.
Office N&C R. R. Co
Chattanooga Febry 2, 1863

R. C. Morris

Rest. Engr

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