NA, RRB 9/6/1861

State of North Carolina
To Southern Telegh Companies
 
Date   Dollars Cents
August 20th to W S Ashe 1 message from Atlanta 4 16
     "     24 to S D Wallace     "        from W S Ashe 1 80
     "     20 S L Fremont Recd Message 4 72
     "     30           "          Mess Sent   93
Aug 31st P M Edmundston to Goldsboro   31
Sept 1st Message from S L Fremont to Newbern   86
     "     2       "           "                "      to Goldsboro   25
     "     3       "           "                "      to Raleigh   92
     "     4th       "           "                "      to Newbern 1 18
     "     2d       "           "                "      to Goldsboro   53
     "     5th       "           "                "      to Portsmouth 2 33
     "     "       "           "                "      to Norfolk 1 98
     "     "       "           "                "       "       " 1 84
     "     "       "           "                "      to Gosport Navy Yard 4 76
     "     "       "           "                "      to Charleston 1 77
     "     "       "           "                "      to Raleigh   92
     "     6th       "           "                 "     to Norfolk 3 24
     "     " Message from Norfolk to S L Fremont 1 14
    $33 64
Sept 1st W S Ashe 1 Mess to Weldon 1 16
"          "            "      "   Petersburg   71
"          "            "      "   Richmond   81
    $36 32
 
   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.
A Q M Willbur
thru S L Fremont
 
   Received at Wilmington NC the Eleventh of September, 1861, of Robt G Rankin Asst Quartermaster North Carolina Army, Thirty Six dollars and thirty two cents, in full of the above account.
G W McGovern
Manager
Southern Telegraph office Wil. NC
{W. S. Ashe = Superintendent of Railroad Transportation, CSA and President, Wilmington & Weldon RR; S. L. Fremont = Superintendent, Wilmington & Weldon RR; S. D. Wallace = Accountant (and next President), Wilmington & Weldon RR}

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