NA, RR 5/22/1861

The Confederate States, for Ordnance Department
To P. Rotchford
 
Date Designation Application Cost
1861 Dollars Cents
May 22 For 200 Bbls best Cannon Powder now detained at Memphis @ $24 00/100 per Bbl, being the price agreed upon, to be delivered at Baton Rouge, the Confederate States paying expense of transportation by Rail Road via Norfolk & Memphis, cost of transportation to be paid to the holders there      
  Amt. due me 200 Bbls at $24 per Bbl   4,800 00
  Expenses of Insurance as per order on Ditto   141 00
      4,941 00
 
   Received at New Orleans, La this 15th day of July 1861, from E. W. Rowle, Capt La Arty Acting Ordnance Officer the sum of Four Thousand Nine Hundred & Forty One dollars and --- cents, in full payment of the above account.
P Rotchford

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