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The Confederate States
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To J H Elsberry
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| 1864 |
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Dollars |
Cts |
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For detention and damage of and to my Barge
Dallas -- impressed at Selma Ala to transport Locomotives from
Montgomery to Selma Ala |
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Detained 100 days @ 30$ pr day |
3000 |
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Repairs paid on Barge at Mobile |
650 |
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$3650 |
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This above is the award reached by the Parties
to whom the case was referred for arbitration |
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| 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 public service. |
| J L Catham Quartermaster |
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| Received at Montgomery Ala on the 8th day
of February 1864, of Maj J. L. Cathom A. Q. M., C. S. A., Thirty Six
Hundred & Fifty Dollars and Cents,
in full of the above account. |
| J H Elsberry |
| {May have been the movement of
locomotives to the South & North Alabama RR} |
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