NA, RRB 9/30A/1863

The Confederate States
To Captain J. M. Hottel A. A. G.
 
Date 1863   Dollars Cents
From Sep 1st to Sep 30th For expenses incurred for transportation of self and allowance of baggage and portage in traveling from Mobile to Montgomery and back to Mobile per annexed statement. 250 00
       
 

Dollars

250 00
 
   I certify on honor that the above account is correct and just, that I have performed the journeys, and on urgent public duty, without orders, for the purpose of moving machinery and Rail Road Rolling Stock, in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of War, and necessarily incurred the expenses as stated; that I have traveled in the customary reasonable manner, and not returning from leave of absence to the station or troops I left, that I have not been furnished with public transportation or money in lieu thereof, for any part of the routes. The approval of the journey by the proper authority is hereto annexed.
J. M. Hottel Capt
 
   Received at Mobile Ala the thirtieth day of September 1863 of Major Thomas M. LeBaron quarter Master C. S. Army Two hundred and fifty Dollars, in full of the above account.
J. M. Hottel Capt

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