NA, RR 6/3/1864

The Confederate States
Appropriation for Engineer Service
To Wilson M. Aldridge
 
1864   Dollars Cts
June 3d For hire of six oxen (3 yoke) employed on the Pontoon & Railroad bridges at Grenada by the Engineer Department, from Jany 31st to June 3d 1864 inclusive one hundred and twenty five days (125) at two dollars and forty ($2.40) cents per day 300 00
  For hire of driver (Austin) of said team fifteen days (15) from Feby 1st to 15th 1864 inclusive at one dollar ($1.00) per day 15 00
  For hauling one (1) carry log from his mill near Duck Hill, distance fifteen miles to Grenada for Engineer Dept. with three yoke of oxen at Seven dollars ($7.50) and fifty cents per day, two days 15 00
 

 

330 00
 
   I certify that the above account is correct and just, amounting to Three hundred and thirty dollars.
G. Donnellan
Lieut Engineers
 
   Received at Grenada, Miss the 7th day of July 1864 of Lieut Geo. Donnellan Corps of Engineers  Three hundred and thirty Dollars and ---- Cents, in full of the above account.
W. M. Aldridge

Home