NA, A&MR 6/20/1864

The State of Mississippi
Lauderdale County
 
Personally came before me R. Y. Reu an acting justice of the Peace for said county
Thos E. Williams
who being duly sworn deposes and said that while reconstructing the Ala & Miss Rivers Rail Road, the following Quarter Master Stores Viz:
1 One Broad Ax
9 Nine Augers
6 Six Adzes
15 Fifteen Chisels
1 One Grind Stone
1 One Framing ???
1 One Wrench
14 Fourteen Wall Tents
1 One Tent Fly
13 Thirteen Sets Tent Poles
34 Thirty four Shovels
11 Eleven Pick Ax Helves
28 Twenty Eight Pole Axes
53 Fifty three Felling Ax Helves
6 Six Spike Drivers
2 Two Claw Bars
30 Thirty Bolts
33 1/2 Thirty three & one half pds ??ns
25 Twenty five pds 3/4 inch Rope
60 Sixty Washers
3829 Thirty Eight Hundred & twenty nine pds Rail Road Spikes
132 One Hundred & thirty two Trees
7095 Seventy Hundred & ninety five Ties
For which Capt L B Taylor AQM in charge of repairs is responsible were Expended Lost Destroyed & Stolen as a great many of the impressed Negroes ran away and took things with them.
Charles S Williams
Engineer in Charge Repair
Ala & Mis Rivers Rd.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 20th day of June 1864
R. Y. Ren
Justice of the Peace

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