NA, RRB 5/20L/1862

The Confederate States

To Edward McKown
 
1862

 

Dollars Cts
May 20 For 1 Horse 100 00
    "   1  Set Harness 7 00
 

$

107 00
 
   I certify that the above account is correct and just; that the articles are to be or have been accounted for me on my property return for the          quarter ending on the    day of              186.
Thos. R. Sharp Quartermaster
 
   Received at Mount Jackson the 31 day of December 1862 of Capt Thos R Sharp Asst Quartermaster C. S. Army, the sum of One hundred & seven Dollars and --- Cents, in full of the above account.
E. McKown
   Impressed property paid for by Government December 1862. The "date of purchase" in the margin of account appended being the date on which the Government ceased to pay hire on the property, is therefore assumed as the correct date of purchase.
Thos R Sharp Capt & AQM

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