NA, RRB 11/30B/1861

The Confederate States
To Patrick O. Ferrill
  

 1861

  Dollars Cts

Oct & Nov

60 Days procuring Copper at Harpers Ferry @ $3 per day 180 00

 

     
 
   I certify to the correctness of the above asst. and recommend that Mr O. Ferrill be paid for the above services.
Lt A L Aniday
  
I certify that the above account is correct and just; that the services were rendered as stated; and that they were necessary for the public service.
                               Quartermaster
 
   Received at Richmond Va the 27th of February 1862 of Capt S Stansbury Confederate States Army, the sum of one hundred and Eighty Dollars and No cents, in full of the above account.
Patrick O  X  Ferrill
            his mark
Attest
Thos W Shruir
Acting M S K
{While not directly railroad related, it is an example of someone else (the Ordnance Bureau?) removing goods from the Martinsburg/Harpers Ferry area in late 1861. Capt. Sharp must have known of his activities.}

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