NA, RRB 7/18/1864

The Confederate States
To DeRosset & Brown, Agents
 
Date   Dollars Cents
1864

July 18

For Freight on Cotton due Mess. Jno. Fraser & Co in Wilmington N. C., ??? delivered as below stated, and paid for according the Government rates of Freight as established by Lt. Col. Sims    
  Delivered in Columbia 257 Bales @11.88 3,053 16
            "       "  Augusta   418     "        14.40      6,019 20
            "       "  Macon     413     "        22.55 9,313 15
            "       "  Wilmington 643  "            " "      "  
    $18,385 51
  Above Cottons delivered in payment of    
  Purchase S. S. "Phantom"             600,000lbs    
  Frt 198 Rolls Lead ex "                  12,000  "    
  Bill 6.12p Blakely Guns               187,683  "    
  Purchase Pig Iron ex Gladiator       51,974  "    
                                                       871,657 lbs    
 
   I certify, on honor, that the above account is correct and just; that the services were rendered as stated, and that they were necessary for the public service.
J. M. Seixas
Agent War Department
 
   Received at Wilmington, N. C., the 27th day of July, 1864 of J. M. Seixas Agent War Department, the sum of Eighteen thousand, three hundred & eighty five dollars and fifty one cents, in full, of the above account.
DeRosset & Brown Agents

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