Quartermaster General's quarterly reports and abstracts, 1862-1864.

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Alabama. Salt Commission. Quartermaster General's quarterly reports and abstracts, 1862-1864.

Quartermaster General's quarterly reports and abstracts, 1862-1864.

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This series contains quarterly reports, abstracts of expenditures and receipts, and vouchers of salt transactions by Duff C. Green, Ala. Quartermaster General and responsible for the distribution of salt in Ala. during the Civil War. The series covers the period from 1862 to 1864, with the majority of the records from the year 1863. Included are reports of salt received, transferred, and sold; abstracts of salt transferred to county agents and probate judges; abstracts of agents' commissions; abstracts of money received from agents; statements of persons exempted from military service; statements of deposits into the State Treasury; transportation rolls, which give the date of shipment, means of conveyance, place of embarkation and destination of some salt shipments by river steamers; vouchers from steamers and railroads; and correspondence concerning shipments of salt. Included are several letters from Gov. John Gill Shorter to John P. Figh and Company authorizing the delivery of salt for indigent families of soldiers, requests by Capt. Jonathan DeLoach for salt for the military encampment at Oven Bluff, and inquiries from probate judges as to the correct amount they can charge for salt. Also included is an 1864 letter from Green to Salt Commissioner Benjamin M. Woolsey, stating that Gov. Thomas Hill Watts had authorized the shipment of twenty-five sacks of salt to the Ala. Penitentiary via Capt. J.A. Pickett. Also included is a statement by W.L. Dodson, agent at the Lower Salt Reserve, which shows expenses for transporting salt produced by John P. Figh and Company.

6 folders.

Alabama Department of Archives and History