A. N. Miller, Savannah, Georgia — Confederate Citizens File
A worked transcription made for CivilWarArtillery.com to the same three-layer rule as the Charleston files in this collection: diplomatic transcription (exactly what the page says), normalized data (searchable form, kept separate), and proposed identifications (external knowledge, flagged, never merged).
Source
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | National Archives (NARA), Record Group 109 |
| Collection | Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, compiled 1874–1899, documenting the period 1861–1865 |
| Microfilm publication | M346 |
| NARA catalog ID | 2133274 |
| Full name (Fold3 index) | Miller, A N |
| State (Fold3 index) | South Carolina — and that index is wrong; see below |
| Fold3 document number | 121 |
| Roll | 0685 |
| Fold3 URL | https://www.fold3.com/image/44686313 |
| SHA-256 | ca0b6f4e7bb6081ae1971b526a56a0900750144c3620f330de1a8ac0afd7412a |
| Page count | 112 (pages 1–111 archival; page 112 = Fold3 source sheet, omitted) |
Fold3 prints its logo and the image URL across the head of image 1, above the archival scan. That header is not part of the document and is not transcribed.
🔴 Fold3 files this under South Carolina. It is a Savannah file.
The index is simply wrong, and it is worth saying plainly because it is why this file sat unread. Every letterhead reads "The Engineer's Department, Confederate States, Savannah, Geo." The works are the Savannah defences. Across 111 images the word Charleston does not appear once.
Three sheets are strays from somewhere else again, and each is flagged where it stands rather than quietly dropped:
- Image 22 — not Miller and not Savannah: Voucher No. 11, John Wharton, 20 bushels of charcoal, Camp near Culpeper Court House, Virginia, 28 July 1863.
- Image 101 — headed and receipted at the Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory, North Carolina, paid by Capt. Jno. C. Booth.
- Images 92, 93 — Macon, Georgia, on jackets bearing the Macon printer's imprint "Burke, Boykin & Co."
What this file is
A. N. Miller was a Savannah founder, blacksmith and machinist, and he made ordnance. That is the discovery of the file, and it is why it belongs on an artillery site rather than a Charleston one.
The single best page is the account of 30 June 1862, which foots exactly at $5,485.78:
1862 DOLLARS CTS
June 30 16 · 42 Pounder Grape @ 3.00 48 00
" 99 · 32 " " @ 2.50 247 50
" 60 · 32 " Cannister @ 2.50 150 00
" 50 · 8 inch Rifle Shell Brass }
Percussion Fuse @ 11.00 550 00
" 3 · 10 in Mortar & Beds @ 1200 3600 00
" 185 · 10" Mortar Shell 16,187 lbs @ 5½c 890 28
$ 5485 78
Three ten-inch mortars with their beds at $1,200 apiece, 42- and 32-pounder grape, 32-pounder canister, and 8-inch rifle shell with brass percussion fuses — certified by Lt. A. F. Cunningham, 1st Lieutenant of Artillery and Ordnance, and receipted at Savannah on 30 August 1862.
The rest divides into five kinds of work:
- Gun emplacement ironwork. Centre pintles, traverse circles (one of cast iron, 500 lb), key bolts, hot shot furnace bars, gins and gin platforms, five Mortar Stake Gins, a chassis gin, mortar and gun platforms, and a cavalier staff. Places named: Caustons Bluff Battery · Warsaw Battery · Bay Battery · Fort Pulaski · Fort Jackson · Fort Rosedew[?] · "New Battery".
- Ordnance foundry work. Ring and shell gauges, callipers, round shot, strapped shell, schrapnell shell, 8-inch Columbiad shell, sabots, pass boxes, sponge staff, rammer, priming wires, truck and manoeuvring handspikes, and a 24-pounder howitzer with flank carriage and implements.
- Torpedoes — from March 1862. A pattern made for torpedoes, the costed anatomy of one, nine torpedoes at $31.00 each, ten floats for them, and 650 lb of cast iron for their anchors; elsewhere a "Sub marine Bomb[?]".
- River obstructions. Spindle plates and spindles for Maj. John Screven, in charge River Obstructions, and crane-and-blocks hire to land anchors and chain — and to recover a cannon lost in the river.
- Steam engineering. Endless repairs to the steamers Ida, Beauregard, Habersham, Resolute, and the chartered cotton-clad boats Chatham and Lamar on the Altamaha; the Salt Works engine; and in November 1862 a second-hand high-pressure engine and boilers, $10,250, sold to Capt. J. W. Mallett, Superintendent of the C. S. Laboratory at Macon, with Miller's own covering letter.
Conventions
[ ] editorial expansion or supplied reading · [?] uncertain reading · printed matter is given in roman, manuscript in the indented blocks · (NO. 22.) and (No. 12.) printed at the head of a sheet are Confederate form numbers, not voucher numbers; the voucher's own number is on its jacket.
Accuracy method. Every page with figures proves itself: quantity × rate = extension, and the extensions sum to the footing. Where a page reconciles the check is stated; where it does not, the divergence is flagged in full rather than silently corrected. No figure in this file has been altered.
Two sheets are partial transcriptions and say so: image 35, the faintest scan in the file, where roughly half the description column will not resolve; and image 85, where the tonnage fraction cannot be read even at magnification.
| Transcription method | Human reading of page images by Claude; no OCR engine relied on (the OCR of this file is worthless — it is all cursive) |
| Review status | NEEDS_REVIEW (single reader per page; items marked [?] need a second reader against the image) |
Image 1 — File-jacket cover, endorsed "Miller, A. N."
The outer folder in which the papers were kept: a tall, folded sheet of plain paper, worn and chipped along the top edge, carrying only the filing endorsement written across the head. Fold3's own logo ("fold3 by ancestry") and the URL https://www.fold3.com/image/44686313 are printed above the archival scan; they are modern additions and form no part of the document.
Miller, A. N.
Checks: no figures on the sheet — no arithmetic to prove.
Flagged: nothing. The remainder of the jacket is blank apart from creases, a small ink smudge near the centre, and edge damage.
Image 2 — Letter, Savannah, 7 March 1864, to Capt. Richard Lambdin[?], Macon Arsenal (first page)
A single leaf of plain wove paper written in a large, fluent hand, folded once vertically and once horizontally; a faint oval "CONFEDERATE RECORDS / WAR DEPARTMENT" archival stamp shows through at the upper left. The text runs off the foot of the sheet in mid-sentence and is continued on the next image.
Sav'h 7th March 1864
Capt Richard Lambdin[?]
Mr[?] S C Ordnance
Macon Arsenal
Sir
Yours of
the 3rd inst as also as 2
parts of Sheets of Copper came
to hand — I am sadly disappointed
in not being able to receive
the 10 Sheets of Copper & Brass[?]
left with Col[i]n Cuyler which
under no consideration where
to be used unless by my
Consent and places me in
such a position that I
may not be able to extricate
myself — the thin copper
you propose to replace it
with would be utterly useless
Checks: no money column and no footing on this page — no arithmetic to prove.
Flagged: the surname of the addressee is a single fluent stroke reading "Lambdin" or possibly "Lamdin"; marked [?]. The line beneath it reads "Mr" (or an abbreviation such as M.S.K.) followed by "S C Ordnance" — the abbreviation is not legible with confidence. "Col[i]n Cuyler" is written with the letters after "Col" small and underlined, which usually signals an abbreviation (i.e. "Col'n" = Colonel Cuyler) rather than the given name Colin; both readings are possible from the ink. The last word of the "10 Sheets of Copper" line is read "Brass" but could be "Bronze". The sheet is Savannah-dated; nothing on it names Charleston.
Image 3 — Same letter, second page, closing with a copper claim of $16,000.00, signed A. N. Miller
The verso/continuation leaf of the 7 March 1864 letter, in the same hand and ink; it takes up mid-sentence from image 2, states the money claim, and carries Miller's signature. The top edge is torn and the first line is partly lost in the scan's black margin.
to me for my purpose
that Copper as also as
some other material had
been turned over to the
Navy department and agreed
to the demand by me in conside[ration]
of $20.00 per pound the price
asked for it at present Col[i]n
Cuyler will therefore see the
justice in making me
whole in this matter by
pay for it at that price
the two sheets or parts of
sheet has been cut with one
of them irregular I shall
return them to you as they
will be of no use to me
10. Sheets of Brass[?]
Copper 801[?] lbs @ 20.00 $ 16.000. 00
Yours Respectfully
A. N. Miller
Checks: the one extension on the sheet does not prove as written. 801 × $20.00 = $16,020.00, which is $20.00 more than the $16,000.00 entered. Read the quantity as 800 and it proves exactly: 800 × $20.00 = $16,000.00 ✔. The figure is left as written.
Flagged: the quantity is written "801" to my eye, the third digit being a plain upstroke; the arithmetic argues for 800, so it is marked [?] and not altered. The commodity on the line above ("Sheets of Brass") is a doubtful reading of the same word that appears on image 2. "Col[i]n Cuyler" recurs here with the same ambiguity between the given name Colin and an abbreviation for Colonel. The rate quoted, $20.00 per pound of copper, is the price the Navy Department is said to have agreed. No fort, battery or vessel is named on this sheet.
Image 4 — Voucher jacket, No. 31, Third Quarter 1862, $31.50, paid 30 August 1862
The printed endorsement panel of a folded voucher jacket, filled in in a clerk's fine hand; the rest of the sheet is blank apart from fold lines and a large oval "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" archival stamp struck across the lower half, with an inked "O.B."-like flourish beneath it.
No. 31 Third QR., 186 2
31 Dollars, 50 Cents.
Paid August 30 th 186 2
A N Miller
Ordnance Service in all its
Branches
Checks: the jacket carries a single sum, $31.50 — nothing to add.
Flagged: nothing doubtful in the filled entries. Note that the classification line "Ordnance Service in all its Branches" is the abstract heading, not a description of the work; the voucher's real number here is 31, given on the jacket as the brief describes.
Image 5 — Account, Confederate States to A. N. Miller, $31.50, receipted Savannah 30 August 1862
The voucher belonging to the jacket on image 4: a printed ruled account form with money columns headed DOLLARS / CTS. twice over and a REMARKS column at the right, filled in and footed, with the printed certificate and receipt completed below.
Confederate States of America,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
1862. DOLLARS. CTS. DOLLARS. CTS. REMARKS.
April 29 Getting up Steam on Sunday 2 1/2[?] clock Bill left by Capt
and turning 1 Centre Pintle for } Cuyler
Caustons Bluff Battery 5 00
May 3 55 lbs Iron on repairing Hot Shot
Furnace Bars c 20 d 11 00
" " Time on Same 2 00
" 20 16 Key Bolts c 25 4 00
" " 4 Hours time on Traverse Circle 7 00
" " Repairing 1 Gin 2 50
31 50
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just, amounting to Thirty one Dollars
and Fifty Cents and that the property has been received
and accounted for.
A F Cunningham 1st Lt Arty[?]
RECEIVED Savannah August 30 186 2
from Lt A F Cunningham Thirty one Dollars,
and fifty Cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
Checks: the column foots exactly. 5.00 + 11.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 7.00 + 2.50 = 31.50 ✔ exact, and it agrees with the $31.50 on the jacket (image 4). Both extensions prove as well: 55 lbs @ 20¢ = $11.00 ✔ exact; 16 key bolts @ 25¢ = $4.00 ✔ exact. The "4 Hours time on Traverse Circle" at $7.00 carries no rate, so nothing to check.
Flagged: the time of day in the April 29 entry is written "2 1/2 clock" or possibly "2 o'clock"; marked [?]. Cunningham's rank abbreviation after "1st Lt" is a flourish read as "Arty"; marked [?]. Names on this sheet: Caustons Bluff Battery (place); Capt. Cuyler and Lt. A. F. Cunningham (officers). Work named: getting up steam, turning a centre pintle, iron repairs to hot-shot furnace bars, key bolts, work on a traverse circle, and repair of a gin.
Image 6 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 26, Abstract B, 3rd Quarter 1861, $22.20
A printed voucher jacket with the abstract letter above the first rule, the voucher number, claimant, quarter and sum entered in a clerk's hand, and two later pencil/ink notations below the second rule. A "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck faintly at the foot; the right-hand third of the sheet carries heavy mirror-image ink offset from a facing document, which is not readable as text.
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Voucher No. 26
A. N. Miller
3 " Quarter, 1861
$ 22 20/100
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15 Jun[?]
Ex'd[?]
Checks: a single sum, $22.20 — nothing to add.
Flagged: the notation under the rule reads "15 Jun" but the month is a bare flourish; marked [?]. The mark below it is a monogram-like scrawl, read as "Ex'd" (examined) but not certain; marked [?]. Note the quarter here is the 3rd Quarter, 1861, a year earlier than the voucher on images 4–5.
Image 7 — Account for the Steamer Ida, $22.20, receipted Savannah 15 June 1861 (Voucher No. 26)
The printed "The ______ To ______ Dr." account form with DATE / DOLLARS / CTS. columns, the work grouped into three brace-bracketed blocks each carrying its own extension in the money column; the certificate is signed by the assistant quartermaster and Miller's receipt is written across the foot, the printed words "SIGNED DUPLICATES" at the bottom.
The Confederate States for Steamer Ida
To A N Miller —— Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
May 28 2 guys for Stack 4.00 8 bolt ends 2.00 6.00 | 6 . 00
30 ditto 1 punch 15 1 staple 25 .40 }
cutg 21 bolts .25 }
8 bolts 3.00 1/3 day Ornies[?] & Fitzgerald 2.00 } 5 . 65
1/2 day Ornies[?] & Fitzgerald (overtime) 3.00 }
17 3/8 bolts 2.55 1 Load fire Clay 1.00 }
Masons work for boiler 4.00 } 10 . 55
$ 22 . 20
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.
L[?]. J. Smith
A Q M
Received Savannah, the Fifteenth day of June , 1861
of L[?]. J. Smith [struck out] Twenty two dollars
and [struck out] Twenty —— cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
Checks: every group proves and so does the footing. Group 1: 4.00 + 2.00 = 6.00 ✔ exact. Group 2: .40 + .25 + 3.00 + 2.00 = 5.65 ✔ exact (and within that line, the punch at 15¢ + the staple at 25¢ = 40¢ ✔ exact). Group 3: 3.00 + 2.55 + 1.00 + 4.00 = 10.55 ✔ exact. Footing: 6.00 + 5.65 + 10.55 = 22.20 ✔ exact, agreeing with the $22.20 on the jacket at image 6.
Flagged: in the "1/3 day" line the figure 2.00 is written over a struck-through 3.00; the 2.00 is the figure that makes the group prove, and both are left as written. The workmen's surname read "Ornies" is doubtful — the initial is an O-like loop that may be a Th ligature, in which case it is the "Theis" of image 13 — and is marked [?]. The quartermaster's first initial is a large loop that could be S or L; marked [?] in both places it appears. The words in the receipt are heavily struck through and rewritten, "Twenty two ... Twenty", which agrees with the footing. Vessel named: Steamer Ida. Officer named: L[?]. J. Smith, A.Q.M. Work named: guys for the stack, bolt ends, a punch, a staple, cutting bolts, bolts, day-labour by two named workmen including overtime, a load of fire clay, and masons' work for the boiler.
Image 8 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 27, Abstract B, 2nd Quarter 1861, $431.85
Another printed voucher jacket of the same pattern as image 6, filled in in the same clerk's hand, with the "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp at the foot and ink offset from a facing sheet down the right-hand side.
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Voucher No. 27
A. N. Miller
2 " Quarter, 1861
$ 431 85/100
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15 Jun
Ex'd
Checks: a single sum, $431.85 — nothing to add.
Flagged: nothing doubtful. Note that this jacket is numbered one higher than image 6 but is for the 2nd Quarter 1861 while No. 26 is for the 3rd Quarter 1861; the jackets are not filed in quarter order, and the figure is left as written.
Image 9 — Account, boiler work on "Str Ida", $431.85, receipted Savannah 15 June 1861 (Voucher No. 27)
The same printed "The ______ To ______ Dr." form as image 7, this one filled with a payroll of named boiler hands by the day and then the boiler iron, liners and rivets by the pound, each block carrying its own subtotal in the money column before the footing.
The Confederate States for "Str Ida"
for Boiler Work To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
May 31 24 days Blount on Boiler @ 3 50 84 00
15 3/4 " Bruns[?] " " @ 3 00 47 25
10 " Corcoran " " @ 3 00 30 00
12 1/2 " Bacchus " " @ 3 00 37 50
24 " Nally " " @ 2 00 48 00
18 " Billy " " @ 2 00 36 00
3 1/4 " Helper " " @ 2 00 6 50 289 25
6 1 Sheet Boiler Iron 327 @ 10 32 70
9 4 Composition Liners 44 @ 35 c 15 40
26 729 lbs Boiler Iron @ 10 c 72 90
216 " " Rivets @ 10 c 21 60 142 60
Am't For'd $ 431 85
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.
S[?] J Smith
A Q M
Received Savannah, the 15th day of June , 186 1
of S[?] J Smith Q M Four hundred & thirty one dollars
and eighty five cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
Checks: every extension and both subtotals prove. Day work: 24 @ 3.50 = 84.00 ✔; 15 3/4 @ 3.00 = 47.25 ✔; 10 @ 3.00 = 30.00 ✔; 12 1/2 @ 3.00 = 37.50 ✔; 24 @ 2.00 = 48.00 ✔; 18 @ 2.00 = 36.00 ✔; 3 1/4 @ 2.00 = 6.50 ✔ — and 84.00 + 47.25 + 30.00 + 37.50 + 48.00 + 36.00 + 6.50 = 289.25 ✔ exact. Materials: 327 @ 10¢ = 32.70 ✔; 44 @ 35¢ = 15.40 ✔; 729 @ 10¢ = 72.90 ✔; 216 @ 10¢ = 21.60 ✔ — and 32.70 + 15.40 + 72.90 + 21.60 = 142.60 ✔ exact. Footing: 289.25 + 142.60 = 431.85 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket at image 8 and with the sum written out in the receipt.
Flagged: the second workman's surname is read "Bruns" but the terminal letter is a descending flourish that could be "y"; marked [?]. The quartermaster's first initial reads "S" here more plainly than on image 7, where I read it "L"; both are the same signature and I have marked it [?] in both places rather than harmonise them. The dates 6, 9 and 26 in the material lines carry no month, and 26 cannot fall in June before the 15 June receipt, so the month is not recoverable from this sheet. Vessel named: "Str Ida". Officer named: S[?]. J. Smith, A.Q.M. Workmen named: Blount · Bruns[?] · Corcoran · Bacchus · Nally · Billy and an unnamed Helper. Work and material named: boiler work by the day, one sheet of boiler iron, four composition liners, boiler iron and rivets by the pound.
Image 10 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 28, Abstract B, 2nd Quarter 1861, $228.17[?]
A third voucher jacket of the same printed pattern, faint in the scan; the "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck at the foot and there is heavy ink offset from a facing sheet down the right-hand side, plus a faint pencil cross and stroke above the "Ex'd".
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Voucher No. 28
A. N. Miller
2 " Quarter, 1861
$ 228 17[?]/100
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Ex'd
Checks: a single sum — nothing to add.
Flagged: the cents numerator is written small and thin; it reads "17" but the first stroke could be part of the flourish, so it is marked [?]. Unlike images 6 and 8 this jacket carries no date notation under the rule.
Image 11 — Account for the Steamer Ida, $228.17, receipted Savannah 15 June 1861, endorsed "Disallowed $1."
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 28: the same printed account form, four groups of work with extensions carried to the money column, an auditor's parenthetical note at the foot of the entries, and a later pencil endorsement "Disallowed $1." below the receipt.
The Confederate States for Steamer Ida
To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
May 11 2 3/4 day's Alt'g boiler legs 5.00 √ 13 . 75
16 Iron work for Hogg braces √ 180 . 00
22 3 lin[e]rs[?] 25 6 pins 1.50 2.25 √
1/2 day makg blocks & saw[?] pan pattern 1.50 √
4 bolts 2.00 1 day Alt'g boiler legs 5.00 7.00 √
1 day on boiler legs & a saw[?] pin pattern 3.00 √
1/2 day Alt'g boiler legs —— 2.50 √ 16 . 25
6 washers 37 1/4 day makg straight edge 75 1.12 √
4 bolts & 2 pins 2.25 √
2 Boiler Stands 96 lbs 5 c 4.80 √
July do d[o] 37 socket bolts 9 c[?] 10.00 √ 18 . 17
( X Error in addition of 1 / should be 15.25 ) —————
$ 228 . 17
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.
S[?] J Smith
A Q M
Received Savannah, the Fifteenth day of June , 186 1
of S[?] J Smith A Q M Two hundred & twenty eight dollars
and Seventeen cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
Disallowed $1.
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
Checks: taken as the clerk wrote it, the whole account proves. Third group: 2.25 + 1.50 + 7.00 + 3.00 + 2.50 = 16.25 ✔ exact. Fourth group: 1.12 + 2.25 + 4.80 + 10.00 = 18.17 ✔ exact. Footing: 13.75 + 180.00 + 16.25 + 18.17 = 228.17 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket at image 10 and with the sum written out in the receipt. Individual lines that can be tested also prove: 3 liners @ 25¢ (75¢) + 6 pins at 1.50 = 2.25 ✔; 4 bolts 2.00 + one day at 5.00 = 7.00 ✔; 6 washers 37¢ + quarter day 75¢ = 1.12 ✔; 96 lbs @ 5¢ = 4.80 ✔; and 2 3/4 days @ $5.00 = 13.75 ✔, half a day at the same rate = 2.50 ✔.
Flagged: the auditor's own note contradicts the page. It says the third group is "Error in addition of 1 / should be 15.25", but the five items in that group add to 16.25 exactly as written; the difference is $1.00 and the pencil endorsement "Disallowed $1." records that a dollar was struck off. I have left both the clerk's 16.25 and the auditor's 15.25 as written and corrected neither. The repeated abbreviation before "boiler legs" is read "Alt'g" (altering), on the strength of the same stroke written more plainly as "Alt'g follower for pump" on image 13. "3 lin[e]rs", "saw pan pattern" and "saw pin pattern" are doubtful readings, marked [?]. The July line's quantity and rate ("37 socket bolts 9 c") give no extension that reaches the $10.00 entered, and the date reads "do d[o]"; both are marked [?], and the group nevertheless foots. Vessel named: Steamer Ida. Officer named: S[?]. J. Smith, A.Q.M. Work named: boiler legs, iron work for hogg braces, liners and pins, blocks and pattern work, bolts, washers, a straight edge, two boiler stands and socket bolts.
Image 12 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 29, Abstract B, 2nd Quarter 1861, $145.00
A fourth voucher jacket of the same printed pattern and the same clerk's hand, with the "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp at the foot and ink offset from a facing sheet down the right-hand side.
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Voucher No. 29
A. N. Miller
2 " Quarter, 1861
$ 145 00
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Ex'd
Checks: a single sum, $145.00 — nothing to add.
Flagged: nothing doubtful; the cents are written as a plain superscript "00".
Image 13 — Account for the Steamer Ida, $145.00, receipted Savannah 15 June 1861 (Voucher No. 29)
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 29: the same printed account form, four brace-bracketed groups of smith and machine work on the steamer, footed to $145.00, certified by the assistant quartermaster and receipted by Miller.
The Confederate States for Steamer Ida
To A N Miller —— Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
May 22 8 Bolts & nuts 2.00 1 Steel pivot[?] 50 2.50 √
1 Key for rod 2.00 1 eye bolt 25 2.25 √
Alt'g follower for pump 50 √ 5 . 25
24 1 hook for staple[?] —— 2.00 √
1 sluice[?] box 1.50 2 studs & nuts 1.00 1.00 √ 4 . 50
Putt'g in Boiler & Stack —— 60.00 √
1 day Sunday Theis[?] & Fitzgerald @ 6.00 12.00 √
1 " Theis[?] & Fitzgerald on Boiler 6.00 √
2 ash pans 800 lbs 5 c 40.00 √
1/2 day 3 Hands dig[?] ash pans 4.50 √ 122 . 50
cutg 26 bolts 4.50 1 Plate for Window 25 4.75 √
2 socket levers for deck pump 8.00 √ 12 . 75
$ 145 . 00
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.
S[?] J Smith
A Q M
Received Savannah, the Fifteenth day of June , 186 1
of S[?] J Smith A Q M One hundred & forty five dollars
and ———— cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
Checks: every group and the footing prove. Group 1: 2.50 + 2.25 + .50 = 5.25 ✔ exact (and within it 2.00 + .50 = 2.50 ✔; 2.00 + .25 = 2.25 ✔). Group 2: 2.00 + 1.50 + 1.00 = 4.50 ✔ exact. Group 3: 60.00 + 12.00 + 6.00 + 40.00 + 4.50 = 122.50 ✔ exact, with 2 ash pans at 800 lbs @ 5¢ = 40.00 ✔ exact, two men at $6.00 the Sunday = 12.00 ✔, and 3 hands for half a day at $3.00 = 4.50 ✔. Group 4: 4.50 + .25 = 4.75 ✔, and 4.75 + 8.00 = 12.75 ✔ exact. Footing: 5.25 + 4.50 + 122.50 + 12.75 = 145.00 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket at image 12 and with the receipt.
Flagged: four doubtful words, each marked [?]: "Steel pivot", "hook for staple", "sluice box", and "dig" in the ash-pan line. The workman written "Theis" here begins with a clear Th; the same trade partnership on image 7 is written with an O-like initial ("Ornies" as I read it there), and the two may be one man — I have left each as the page gives it rather than harmonise them. The cents line of the receipt is left blank and ruled through, consistent with a whole-dollar sum. Vessel named: Steamer Ida. Officer named: S[?]. J. Smith, A.Q.M. Workmen named: Theis[?] · Fitzgerald and three unnamed hands. Work named: bolts, nuts, a steel pivot, a key for a rod, an eye bolt, altering the pump follower, a hook, a sluice box, studs and nuts, putting in boiler and stack, two ash pans of 800 lbs, cutting bolts, a plate for a window, and two socket levers for the deck pump.
Image 14 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 25, 2nd Quarter 1861, $95.52
A fifth voucher jacket of the same printed pattern. Unlike images 6, 8, 10 and 12 the space above the top rule carries no abstract letter — it is blank. The "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck at the foot and there is ink offset from a facing sheet down the right-hand side.
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Voucher No. 25
A. N. Miller
2 " Quarter, 1861
$ 95 52/100
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15 Jun
Ex'd
Checks: a single sum, $95.52 — nothing to add.
Flagged: the abstract letter is absent rather than illegible; the space is clean. Nothing else doubtful.
Image 15 — Account for the Steamer Ida, footed $95.52, marked "should be 95.62 1/2", receipted 15 June 1861
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 25: the same printed account form, five brace-bracketed groups of boiler, stack and smith work on the steamer, with a reviewer's correction written across the foot of the entries in the same ink as the checkmarks.
The Confederate States for Steamer Ida
To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
May 3 Taking out Stacks & Boiler 60.00
1/2 day 8 men labor on boiler 8.00 68 . 00
6 6 Shovis[?] smth Awng[?] Iron 4.50
1 Rudder iron 5.00
1/2 day smth Axes Chisels 3.75 13 . 25
7 Dressg 9 Chisels 1 12
8 1/4 day on boiler leg pattern 75 1 . 87
9 Dressg 2 chisels 25
2 caps & 4 bolts & nuts for winch[?] 6 00
1/2 day's time on boiler leg pattern 1.50
6 feet Lumber for do 50 8 . 25
1 Bolt[?] 50 ; 1 1/4 [day] fixg[?] boiler legs 4 . 25
+ should be 95.62 1/2 + $ 95 . 52
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.
S[?] J Smith
A Q M
Received Savannah, the Fifteenth day of June , 186 1
of S[?] J Smith A Q M Ninety five —— dollars
and fifty two cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
Checks: the groups prove individually but the footing does not. Group 1: 60.00 + 8.00 = 68.00 ✔ exact. Group 2: 4.50 + 5.00 + 3.75 = 13.25 ✔ exact. Group 3: 1.12 + .75 = 1.87 (1.875 rounded down; the reviewer's "1/2" at the foot is this half-cent). Group 4: .25 + 6.00 + 1.50 + .50 = 8.25 ✔ exact. Group 5: .50 + 3.75 (1 1/4 days at $3.00) = 4.25 ✔ exact. Adding the five: 68.00 + 13.25 + 1.87 1/2 + 8.25 + 4.25 = 95.62 1/2, not the $95.52 written in the money column — a shortfall of 10 1/2 cents. The reviewer saw the same thing and wrote "+ should be 95.62 1/2" beside the total. The figure as written, $95.52, is the sum carried to the jacket at image 14 and the sum receipted by Miller ("Ninety five dollars and fifty two cents"), so the ten cents was never recovered. Nothing has been corrected here.
Flagged: the divergence above is the substantive one — the account foots ten and a half cents low, the reviewer noted it, and the low figure was nevertheless paid. Doubtful readings, each marked [?]: "6 Shovis smth Awng Iron" (both the article and the qualifier are unclear; 6 at 75¢ each would give the 4.50 entered), "for winch", "1 Bolt", and "fixg" in the last line. Vessel named: Steamer Ida. Officer named: S[?]. J. Smith, A.Q.M. Work named: taking out stacks and boiler, eight men's labour on the boiler, smith work on irons, a rudder iron, dressing chisels, boiler-leg pattern work, caps, bolts and nuts for a winch, lumber, and fitting boiler legs.
Image 16 — Jacket on Form No. 12: Voucher No. 13, Abstract A, Fourth Qr. 1862, $25.20, paid 31 Dec 1862
A jacket of a different printed pattern from images 6–14: it carries the form number "No. 12." at the head above a short rule, then a line for the voucher's own number and abstract, the claimant, the sum and the payment date. The "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck faintly across the lower half; the rest of the sheet is blank.
No. 12.
---
No. 13 Abstract A. Fourth Qr., 186 2
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A. W. Miller
$ 25 20/100
...........................
Paid 31 of Dec 186 2
Checks: a single sum, $25.20 — nothing to add.
Flagged: the "No. 12." at the head is the printed form number, not this voucher's number; the voucher's own number is 13, on the Abstract A line, and that is the number used in the heading above. The claimant's middle initial is written as a three-humped letter I read as "W", where every other sheet in the file gives "A. N. Miller"; it may be the clerk's slip, but it is left as written.
Image 17 — Two sheets on one frame: voucher on Form No. 12, $25.20, and jacket Voucher No. 86, $155.33
This frame holds two separate sheets photographed one above the other. The upper is the purchase voucher belonging to the jacket at image 16 — a printed Form No. 12 account with only two entries and a great deal of blank ruling below them. The lower is an unrelated voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, folded in four, with the "RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp at its centre.
Upper sheet:
No. 12.
The Confederate States,
To A. W. Miller Dr.
Date of Purchase. DOLLARS. CENTS.
Nov 28 To 24 Brackets & bolts a 75 c 18 00
" 48 Washers a 15 c 7 20
25 20
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just; the articles are to be (or have been)
accounted for on my property return for the Fourth quarter ending on the 31st day of
December 186 2
Jas T Stewart Capt & Assistant Quartermaster.
RECEIVED AT Savannah , the 31st of December 186 2 , of
Capt Jas T Stewart Assistant Quartermaster Confederate States Army,
Twenty five Dollars and Twenty cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed duplicates.) A. N. Miller
Lower sheet:
No. 22.
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No. 86 Abstract B Third Qr., 186 2[?]
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A. N. Miller
$ 155 33/100
Paid 20 of August 186 2
Checks: the upper account proves exactly. 24 brackets & bolts @ 75¢ = $18.00 ✔ exact; 48 washers @ 15¢ = $7.20 ✔ exact; 18.00 + 7.20 = 25.20 ✔ exact, which agrees with the $25.20 on the jacket at image 16 and with the "Twenty five Dollars and Twenty cents" written into the receipt. The lower sheet is a jacket carrying one sum, $155.33 — nothing to add; it is the footing of the account at image 18, whose receipt writes it out as "One Hundred Fifty five Dollars, and Thirty three Cents".
Flagged: both printed numbers at the heads of these sheets are form numbers — Form No. 12 (purchase) above and Form No. 22 (miscellaneous disbursement) below. The lower jacket's own voucher number is 86, on the Abstract B line. On the upper sheet the claimant is again written "A. W. Miller" in the heading while the receipt below is signed "A. N. Miller" in Miller's own hand — the discrepancy is the clerk's, and both are left as written. On the lower jacket the year on the Abstract line is a bold flourish that could be 2 or 3; since the same sheet is paid in August 1862 and is for the Third Quarter, I read it 1862 and mark it [?]. The cents on this jacket were first read "83"; the account at image 18 foots to the same sum and writes it out in words as thirty three cents, so the figure is 33 — in this hand a 3 closes at the top and passes for an 8. The day of payment reads "20", as the receipt on image 18 confirms. Officer named: Capt. Jas. T. Stewart, Assistant Quartermaster — a new name in the file. Work named: brackets and bolts, and washers.
Image 18 — Account on Form No. 22, "Str Ida" repairs, footed $155.33, receipted Savannah 20 August 1862
The voucher belonging to the lower jacket on image 17: a tall printed "No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)" account, closely written with about thirty entries running from 7 June to 2 August 1862, then a long stretch of blank ruling before the footing, the quartermaster's certificate and Miller's receipt. This is the lowest-resolution sheet in the range and several cents figures are at or past the limit of the scan — they are marked [?] below.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller — Dr.
DATE. For Str Ida for Services & Material DOLLARS. CTS.
1862. used in repairs
June 7 " Repairing oil Cup 1 00
July 11 " 19 Grate Bars 920 lbs @ 6 c 55 20
12 " " " " 300 " " " 18 00
16 " Dressing Chisel 15
22 " 1/2 day turning[?] piston 3 00
23 " 1 Washer 15 c Bushing[?] Washer 25 c 40
" " 1/2 day of Helper 1 50
" " 1 days of Lathe on Piston 6 00
24 " 1/2 day use[?] of Forge[?] 1 50
" " day of Lathe on Piston 6 00
25 " 1/2 day of Lathe " 3 00
" " 1/2 " Grinding Piston 1 75[?]
" " 1/2 " Helper on Piston 1 50
" " 1 - 14 inch File 2 00
" " 4 hours use of Forge 2 00
26 " 3/4 day finishing[?] Piston & rings 2 62
" " 3/4 " of Helper 1 50
" " 1/4 " Getting[?] Rod 58[?]
" " Cutting Screw 28[?]
" " 2 Eye Bolts for Piston 3 00
" " 1 hours use of Forge 45[?]
" " Cutting off Slut[?] Mandrill[?] 50
" " Use of Sheave[?] 10.00 Wharfage 15.00 25 00
29 " Dressing Journal[?] 50
30 " 1 day work of Machine[?] 4.00 Ways[?] 2.00 6 00
" " Set " " " " " 58 c[?] / 63[?] 1 50
" " 8 - 5/8 Bolts & Washers 30 c each 2 40
" " 2 lbs Boiler Iron @ 25 c 50
" " 2 " Sheet Lead @ 35 c 70
Augst 2 " Planing & rebating[?] 2 Bolts 2 00
" " 4 lbs Iron @ 35 c 1 40[?]
" " 4 Bolts 14 lbs @ 30 c 4 20
$ 155 33
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.
Jas T Stewart Capt & Assistant Quartermaster.
RECEIVED Savannah 20 th August 186 2 , of Capt Jas T Stewart A Q M
One Hundred Fifty five Dollars, and Thirty three Cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed duplicates.) A. N. Miller
Checks: the extensions that can be read prove. 920 lbs @ 6¢ = $55.20 ✔ exact; 300 lbs @ 6¢ = $18.00 ✔ exact; the washer at 15¢ plus the bushing washer at 25¢ = 40¢ ✔ exact; 8 bolts and washers at 30¢ each = $2.40 ✔ exact; 2 lbs @ 25¢ = 50¢ ✔ exact; 2 lbs @ 35¢ = 70¢ ✔ exact; 14 lbs @ 30¢ = $4.20 ✔ exact; and the sheave at $10.00 with wharfage at $15.00 = $25.00 ✔ exact. The footing does not prove against my reading of the column: adding the entries as transcribed gives $155.73 (or $156.13 if the "4 lbs Iron @ 35 c" line is entered at its own extension of 1.40 rather than 1.00), against the $155.33 footed, receipted in words as "One Hundred Fifty five Dollars, and Thirty three Cents", and carried to the jacket. I have not adjusted anything to close it.
Flagged: I cannot certify the divergence. Four cents figures on this sheet — the "Grinding Piston" line, "Getting Rod", "Cutting Screw" and the second "use of Forge" — are below the resolution of this scan, and a plausible re-reading of any two of them would move the total by more than the gap. The honest statement is: the column as I read it does not foot to $155.33, the difference is between 40 and 80 cents depending on those four readings, and a better image is needed to settle it. Correction to image 17: the sum on that lower jacket, which I read there as "$155 83/100", is the same figure as this footing and this receipt — $155.33; the "3" in this hand closes at the top and reads as an "8". The day of payment on that jacket is likewise "20", as this receipt gives it, not "21". Vessel named: "Str Ida". Officer named: Capt. Jas. T. Stewart, Assistant Quartermaster. Work and material named: repairing an oil cup, 19 grate bars weighing 920 and 300 lbs, dressing chisels, turning and grinding the piston, lathe work on the piston, a helper by the day, use of the forge by the hour, a 14-inch file, finishing piston and rings, getting a rod, cutting screw, eye bolts for the piston, cutting off a mandrill, use of a sheave and wharfage, dressing a journal, machine work and ways, bolts and washers, boiler iron, sheet lead, planing and rebating bolts, and iron and bolts by the pound.
Image 19 — Archivist's cross-reference card, "A. N. Miller ... See 'R.' 9. Vessel Papers"
Not a Confederate document at all but a later War Department index card: a printed, faintly ruled card with "Misc. Vouchers." set in type across the lower third, carrying a clerk's cross-reference in ink at the head. It is the last sheet in this range.
A. N. Miller,
See
"R." 9. Vessel Papers.
V- 2 - " "
Misc. Vouchers.
Checks: no figures — no arithmetic.
Flagged: the character after the quoted "R." is read as a figure 9 but is formed like a lower-case g; marked here as written. The two ditto marks on the "V- 2 -" line repeat "Vessel Papers." above them. The card is filing apparatus, not a record of Miller's work, and it points the reader to a separate series of vessel papers — consistent with the steamer Ida accounts that fill most of this range.
Image 20 — Voucher jacket endorsement, No. 31, 3d Qr. 1862, $31.50, paid 30 August 1862
A folded voucher jacket (the outside of the folded voucher), written on the blank outer leaf; the lower two-thirds carries only a later archival oval stamp.
No. 31 3[d] Qr., 1862
$ 31 Dollars, 50 Cents.
Paid August 30 1862
A N Miller
Ordnance Service in all its Branches
[oval stamp, later archival:]
RECORD DIVISION,
[ ....... ARCHIV]ES,
[WAR] DEPARTMENT.
Checks: no columnar arithmetic on this sheet. The figures given, $31 and 50 cents, agree with the printed dollars/cents rule as written — $31.50.
Flagged: the quarter digit is a single cursive stroke read as 3 — the paid date of 30 August 1862 falls in the 3d quarter, which supports it, but the glyph alone is ambiguous [?]. The jacket's own number (31) happens to match the dollars figure (31); both were checked separately and both read 31. The centre lines of the oval stamp are too faint to read; the surrounding words are legible.
Image 21 — Account on printed "Confederate States of America" form, $31.50, received 30 August 1862
The voucher itself belonging to the jacket at Image 20 — a printed account-and-receipt form filled in for six items of smith and machine work, certified by the ordnance officer and receipted by Miller at the Savannah Depot.
Confederate States of America,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
========================================================================
186[2] | DOLLARS. | CENTS | REMARKS.
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April 29 For getting up Steam on Sunday 21st |
Inst and turning up 1 Centre Pintle |
for Caustons Bluff Battery | 5 00
May 3 Repairing Hot Shot Furnace Bars | 13 00
20 16 Key Bolts 25 | 4 00
" Repairing Gin | 2 50
" 4 Hours time of Chief Blacksmith |
on Traverse Circle @ 75 c | 3 00
4 Hours each of Asst Blacksmiths on |
Traverse Circle 8 hours @ 50 c | $ 4 00
========================================================================
$ 31 50
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just, amounting to Thirty one Dollars
and Fifty Cents and that the property has been received and accounted for.
A. F. Cunningham 1st Lt actg [?] Ord[nance]
RECEIVED Savannah Depot, August 30 1862, of Lt A. F. Cunningham
Thirty one
Dollars Fifty Cents, in full of the above account. A. N. Miller
Checks: extensions — 16 Key Bolts @ 25c = $4.00 ✔; 4 hours of Chief Blacksmith @ 75c = $3.00 ✔; assistant blacksmiths, 8 hours @ 50c = $4.00 ✔. Footing — 5.00 + 13.00 + 4.00 + 2.50 + 3.00 + 4.00 = 31.50 ✔ exact, and it matches the written words "Thirty one Dollars and Fifty Cents" and the jacket at Image 20.
Flagged: this clerk's 3 and 5 are close cousins, and the second and fifth amounts had to be settled by comparing letterforms — the compact bowl-and-hook (as in the date "May 3") is his 3, the long trailing stroke (as in the cents "50") is his 5; on that reading the second line is 13.00, not 15.00, and the column proves exactly. The abbreviation after "1st Lt actg" in Cunningham's signature is a flourish I cannot resolve beyond "Ord[nance]" [?].
Image 22 — Voucher No. 11, John Wharton, 20 bushels charcoal, $8.00, Camp near Culpeper C.H., 28 July 1863
Two exposures on one frame: above, the folded verso of a small slip carrying the voucher endorsement; below, the slip itself, a manuscript bill and receipt. Neither sheet mentions Miller or Savannah — this is a stray filed with his papers.
[upper — verso endorsement:]
Voucher
No 11
[lower — the bill and receipt:]
Camp Near Culpeper C.H.
July 28th 1863
The Confederate States
To Jno Wharton Dr
For 20 bus Char Coal @ 40 cts $8,''
Recd payment of Lt H. C.[?] Meade
John Wharton
Checks: 20 bushels @ 40 cts = $8.00 ✔ exact, and that is the only figure on the sheet. The cents are written as the clerk's slanted double-stroke for "00".
Flagged: the middle initial in "Lt H. C. Meade" is a single tangled stroke — the surname is plain, the initials are not, so I mark them [?]. This document does not belong to the A. N. Miller Savannah series: it is dated at Camp near Culpeper Court House, Virginia, and the payee is John (Jno) Wharton, paid for charcoal. It is a misfile within the folder and should be flagged for the file's own index. "Culpeper" is written with a hurried terminal flourish that could be read C.S.t; C.H. (Court House) is the sense.
Image 23 — Voucher jacket, No. 123, First Qr. 1863, $739 55/100, paid 23 March 1863
A printed voucher jacket, the outside of the folded packet; the surrounding blank field carries only bleed-through from the account folded inside it and a later archival oval stamp.
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No.. 123....
. . . . .
First Qr., 186 3
A N Miller
$ 739 55/100
Paid 23 of March 1863
===========================================
[oval stamp, later archival:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: a jacket, so no column to foot. The one figure, $739 55/100, is written over a printed safety-tint panel and reads $739.55.
Flagged: faint mirrored writing shows through on both sides of the jacket from the account folded inside — it is not writing on this leaf and is not transcribed. The leading digit of "739" is a long single stroke that could conceivably be read as 1, but its height and the descender match this hand's 7 [?].
Image 24 — Account on the Macon Arsenal disbursement form, iron and a whip saw, $739.55, received 23 March 1863
The account belonging to the jacket at Image 23 — a printed "The Confederate States, To ... Dr." form with a Remarks column, approved by the ordnance major and receipted at Macon.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE. | DOLLARS. | CTS. | REMARKS, SHOWING
186 3 | | | NATURE OF DISBURSEMENT.
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January For 11 140/2000 Tons Iron @ $65 00 | 719 55
, 1 Whip Saw | 20 00
$ 739 55
Approved for Seven Hundred & Thirty nine Dollars, fifty five Cents.
Rich[ar]d M Cuyler
Maj Arty & Ord
RECEIVED AT MACON, GA., the 23d of March 186 3,
of RICHARD LAMBERT, M. S. K. Ordnance Corps, C. S. A., Seven Hundred and
Thirty nine Dollars and fifty five Cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: extension — 11 140/2000 tons is 11.07 tons; 11.07 x $65.00 = $719.55 ✔ exact. Footing — 719.55 + 20.00 = 739.55 ✔ exact, agreeing with the written words, with the approval, and with the jacket at Image 23.
Flagged: the approving officer's signature is a rapid one; I read it "Rich[ar]d M Cuyler, Maj Arty & Ord" — the surname's first letter is a large looped C and the reading is good, but the abbreviated forename is compressed [?]. Note that this voucher was receipted at Macon, Georgia, not Savannah, and the disbursing officer is Richard Lambert, Military Storekeeper, Ordnance Corps. Faint mirrored writing in the middle of the sheet is bleed-through from the jacket, not text on this page.
Image 25 — Voucher jacket, No. 22, A. N. Miller, $10.00, bill for repairing scales, paid 24 December 1862
A printed voucher jacket with a "BILL FOR" line, filled in by hand; the enclosed bill has printed clean through the paper, so mirrored text runs down both margins.
H[?] L Lock
No 22
. . .
A N Miller
$ 10 00
BILL FOR
Repairing Scales
Paid Dec 24 1862
[oval stamp, later archival:]
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
[ illegible ]
CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES
Checks: a jacket, no column to foot. The single figure is $10.00, and the "BILL FOR" line describes it as repairing scales.
Flagged: the name at the head, H[?] L Lock, is written large and fast; "Lock" is clear, the two initials are not, and I cannot tell whether this is the officer who filed the voucher or a filing note. No. 22 here is the voucher's own number written on its jacket, not a printed form number. The mirrored writing in both margins is show-through from the bill folded inside and is not transcribed. The middle line of the archival stamp is illegible.
Image 26 — Account, repairing government scales, $10.00, Savannah, December 1862 (day left blank)
The bill belonging to the jacket at Image 25 — a printed "The Confederate States, To ... Dr." form with a single line of work, certified by the commissary and receipted by Miller at Savannah.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE. | DOLLARS. | CENTS
----------------------------------------------------------------
1862
Dec 23 For Repairing Government Scales | 10 00
| $ 10 00
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I certify that the above account is correct and just; and that the articles were (or will be)
accounted for on my returns for the [month of struck through] Fourth Quarter 1862
J[?] L Locke Maj & Com[missar]y
(DUPLICATES.)
Received at Savannah, on the ______ of December 1862 of
Major J. L. LOCKE, Commissary of Subsistence, C. S. A., Ten
~~~~~~~~~~ Dollars ~~~~ Cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
Checks: one item only — $10.00 carried down to a footing of $10.00 ✔ exact, and it matches the $10.00 on the jacket at Image 25.
Flagged: the day of the month in the receipt line was never filled in — the blank stands empty between "on the" and "of December 1862"; the jacket at Image 25 supplies "Paid Dec 24 1862". The dollars and cents blanks in the receipt are closed with wavy pen-strokes rather than words, "Ten" alone standing for the sum. The certifying signature is a heavily looped one; the printed line below it identifies the officer as Major J. L. Locke, Commissary of Subsistence, C.S.A., which also resolves the name written at the head of the jacket at Image 25 — read there as "H[?] L Lock", it is J. L. Locke.
Image 27 — File wrapper endorsement, "Contract — A. N. Miller, Savannah Ga.", Letters Recd W.D. 103 of 1861
A narrow archival file wrapper (a docketing slip, ruled paper), carrying only the filing endorsement and the Rebel Archives oval stamp — no account and no figures.
Contract
A. N. Miller
Savannah Ga.
Letters Recd W. D. 103 of 1861
[oval stamp, struck at an angle:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* REBEL ARCHIVES, *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: no sum and no column on this leaf; nothing to foot.
Flagged: "W. D." is written as a cursive capital W followed by a raised mark, then D — I read it War Department, the usual Letters Received citation, though the W could be taken for an M [?]. This is the wrapper of a contract file, not of a voucher, and it names Savannah, Georgia plainly.
Image 28 — File wrapper endorsement, "Contract — A. N. Miller", chapter-and-volume references
A second narrow archival file wrapper on the same ruled stock as Image 27, carrying a cross-reference to the bound Confederate records and the Rebel Archives stamp — no account, no figures.
Contract
========
A. N. Miller
Chap 2 - 187 - 433 - mentioned
" 2 - 27 - 70
[oval stamp:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* REBEL ARCHIVES. *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: nothing to foot — the numbers here are archival citations (chapter, volume, page), not money.
Flagged: nothing illegible. The ditto mark on the second line stands for "Chap", so the two references read Chapter 2, volume 187, page 433 (marked "mentioned") and Chapter 2, volume 27, page 70. These are the archivists' hands, not a Confederate clerk's.
Image 29 — Voucher jacket, Abstract A, Voucher No. 25, $71 93/100, 4th Quarter 1861, paid 20 December
A printed voucher jacket, the folded outside of the packet; the left margin carries the mirrored letterhead of the account folded inside it.
==============================================
A.
Voucher No. 25
A. N. Miller Paid Dec 20th
4th Quarter, 1861
$ 71 93/100
==============================================
[oval stamp, struck at an angle:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* ... *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
[mirrored show-through down the left margin:]
The Engineer's Department, Confederate States, Savannah, Geo.
Checks: a jacket, so nothing to foot. The sum reads $71 93/100 — $71.93 — and the abstract letter is A.
Flagged: nothing illegible on the jacket itself. The blackletter line down the left edge is the printed letterhead of the enclosed engineer's account showing through the paper in mirror image; it is transcribed here only to record what the enclosure was. The date line of the archival oval stamp is too faint to read.
Image 30 — Engineer's Department account, Voucher No. 25, fort ironwork and pump repairs, $71.93, Savannah 20 Dec.
The account belonging to the jacket at Image 29 — the printed Engineer's Department, Savannah form, eleven lines of ironwork and day-labour, certified by the chief engineer and receipted by Miller. Every line carries an auditor's tick in the margin of the money column.
The Engineer's Department, Confederate States, Savannah, Geo.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE OF | DOLLARS. | CTS.
PURCHASE.
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Sept 28 16 3/4 bolts for Warsaw Battery @ 25c | v 4 00
Oct 8 (2 Pump handles & 1 Key for Fort Pulaski | v 8 00
(2 Wooden handles for Pump. " | v 50
R (Leather & Rubber for Packing " | v 4 50
e (1 Bolt & 2 Nuts | v 38
p (1 day Kennedy 3.00 & 2 days Maxwell[?] = 6.00 | v 9 00
a (1 3/4 " Mescally[?] @ 3.00 | v 5 25
i (1/4 " Crenshaw 75c 1/2 day 3 Labrers @ 2.00 = 3.00 | v 3 75
r (1 pc Chain for Keg[?] | v 25
n 36 Eye bolts for Mortar Platforms @ 75c | v 27 00
g 1 Strap for Port Cullis "Fort Jackson" 62 @ 15 | v 9 30
Pump ----------------
at | v $ 71 93
Fort
Pulaski
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I Certify that the above account is correct and just.
Wm H Echols
Capt of Engrs
Received at Savannah , the 20th of Dec , 186 [tick]
of Capt. Echols Chief Engineer Seventy - one dollars
and ninety - three cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(Signed duplicates.)
Checks: extensions — 16 bolts @ 25c = $4.00 ✔ (the "3/4" is the bolt size, not part of the count); 1 3/4 days @ $3.00 = $5.25 ✔; 1/4 day Crenshaw at 75c plus 3 laborers a half day each @ $2.00 = 0.75 + 3.00 = $3.75 ✔; Kennedy 1 day $3.00 plus Maxwell 2 days $6.00 = $9.00 ✔; 36 eye bolts @ 75c = $27.00 ✔; the Fort Jackson portcullis strap, 62 [lbs] @ 15c = $9.30 ✔. Footing — 4.00 + 8.00 + 0.50 + 4.50 + 0.38 + 9.00 + 5.25 + 3.75 + 0.25 + 27.00 + 9.30 = 71.93 ✔ exact, matching the words "Seventy-one dollars and ninety-three cents" and the jacket at Image 29.
Flagged: the year in the receipt line was never written — the form reads ", 186" and an auditor's tick stands where the last digit belongs; the jacket at Image 29 supplies 4th Quarter 1861. Two workmen's names are doubtful: the second man on the Kennedy line I read Maxwell[?], and the man on the following line Mescally[?]; both are written fast and neither is certain. Keg[?] on the chain line has a clear descender and is not "Key", but the capital could be K or R. The brace in the left margin gathers the Oct 8 lines under the note "Repairing Pump at Fort Pulaski". Note that the Fort Jackson strap rate is 62 @ 15, weight times cents per pound — not "62 1/2 cents"; read that way the line proves to the penny.
Image 31 — Voucher jacket, C. S. Engineer Dep[artmen]t, Voucher No. 31, 1st Qr. 1863, $295.61
A printed voucher jacket, the outside of the folded packet; both side panels carry mirrored show-through from the printed account inside, and a large pen "+" sits below the entries.
C S Engineer Dep[artmen]t
Voucher No. 31 ..........
1st Qr. ............... 186 3
$ 295 61
A. N. Miller
+
[oval stamp, struck at an angle:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* REBEL ARCHIVES, *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: a jacket, nothing to foot. The one figure reads $295 with the cents 61 written small above the ruling flourish — $295.61.
Flagged: nothing illegible on the jacket. The cents digits are written above a long trailing flourish rather than on the line, and were checked at high magnification before being set down as 61. The faint reversed lettering down both flanks is show-through from the enclosed printed account, not writing on this leaf.
Image 32 — Account, Voucher No. 31, boiler and engine work, $295.67, Savannah, 26 January 1863
The account belonging to the jacket at Image 31 — a printed Confederate States form ruled DATE / DESIGNATION / APPLICATION / COST, eleven lines of shop labour and materials, certified and receipted. The Application column is left empty throughout and every line carries an auditor's tick.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr
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DATE. | DESIGNATION. | APPLICATION. | COST.
| | | DOLLS. | CTS.
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Dec 22 4 days Carpenters @ 3 50/100 | v 14 .
58 4/10 " Helpers on boxes @ 2 | v 116 80
Dressing Chisels Making drifts | v 7 50
Nails & Lumber for Packing boxes | v 10 37
24 2 Quarts Turpentine @ 50c | v 1
Making Wrenches & repairing same | v 14 50
3 days Boiler Makers . @ 3 75 | v 11 25
3 " " " Helpers @ 3 | v 9 00
1 " Charles 2.00 1/4 day Blount 5.00 | v 3 25
Repairs on r[?]se of Jack Screw | v 8 00
Jan 7th Use of Crain & Wharfage on }
Boiler & Engine | v 100 00
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| v 295 67
$
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I certify that the above account is correct and just; the articles to be (or have been) accounted for in my
Property Return for ______ quarter of ______
John McCrady
Capt & Chief Eng[inee]r
State of Geo
RECEIVED at Savannah this 26 day of Jany 186 3
from Capt Jno McCrady the sum of Two hundred ninety five Dollars
& sixty seven cents
in full payment of the above account.
A. N. Miller
$ [DUPLICATE.]
Checks: extensions — 4 days carpenters @ $3.50 = $14.00 ✔; 58 4/10 days helpers @ $2.00 = $116.80 ✔; 2 quarts turpentine @ 50c = $1.00 ✔; 3 days boiler makers @ $3.75 = $11.25 ✔; 3 days helpers @ $3.00 = $9.00 ✔; 1 day Charles at $2.00 plus 1/4 day Blount at $5.00 = 2.00 + 1.25 = $3.25 ✔. Footing — 14.00 + 116.80 + 7.50 + 10.37 + 1.00 + 14.50 + 11.25 + 9.00 + 3.25 + 8.00 + 100.00 = 295.67 ✔ exact, and the receipt spells it out as two hundred ninety five dollars and sixty seven cents.
Flagged: the jacket at Image 31 and this account do not read alike in the cents. The account foots to 295.67, the written words say sixty seven, and the footing digits are plainly 6 and 7; on the jacket the second cent digit is a stroke I read there as 1. On the evidence of this sheet the jacket figure is almost certainly $295.67 and my reading of "61" at Image 31 is the weaker one — but I have left both as read rather than correcting either. The helpers' quantity is written as a squeezed fraction; it must be 58 4/10 for the line to extend at $2.00, and at high magnification that is what it looks like [?]. The word after "Repairs on" is four letters I cannot settle — "rise", "nose" and "one" are all possible [?]. The two blanks in the certificate ("Property Return for ____ quarter of ____") were never filled in.
Image 33 — Voucher jacket, C. S. Engineer's Department, No. 29, $657.00, paid 2d March 1862
A printed voucher jacket, the outside of the folded packet, with a large pen "+" below the entries and reversed show-through of the enclosed account down the right-hand half of the frame.
C. S. Engineer's Department.
No. 29. ...............
Paid .... 2d March ........... 186 2
$ 657 00 ---
A. N. Miller ..............
_________
+
[oval stamp, struck at an angle, partly off the sheet:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* REBEL [ARCHIVES,] *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: a jacket, nothing to foot. The sum reads $657 with a dash for the cents and "00" written small above it — $657.00.
Flagged: the third digit was checked at high magnification: it has a flat top bar and a straight diagonal, so it is a 7 and not an 0 — $657, not $650. Nothing else on this leaf is doubtful. The reversed writing filling the right-hand half of the frame is the enclosed account showing through the paper.
Image 34 — Two sheets in one frame: account, flats and flat boat, $650.00, 30 July 1862; jacket No. 62, $1,479.10
Two exposures filmed on a single frame. Above, an account on the printed Engineer's Department Savannah form headed with the form number "No. 12."; below, the outside of a folded voucher jacket that carries a different number and a different sum, so the two are not a matched pair.
[upper sheet — the account:]
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer's Department, Savannah, Georgia,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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Date of Purchase. | DOLLARS. | CTS.
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186 2 [struck through]
Feby 2 Mooring flats 75 - New | v 150 00
at Value of flat boat - Decked with live oak | 500 00
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I Certify that the above account is correct and just.
Wm H Echols Capt of Engrs
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, on the 30 of July 186 2
of Capt W H Echols [blot] Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army,
Six hundred & fifty dollars and __________ cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed in duplicate.)
A. N. Miller
[lower sheet — a voucher jacket:]
C. S. Engineer's Department.
No. 62
Paid 1st Quarter ........... 1862
$ 1.479 10
A. N. Miller
_________
[oval stamp, mostly off the edge:]
RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: upper sheet — 2 mooring flats @ $75 = $150.00 ✔; 150.00 + 500.00 = $650.00 ✔ exact, matching the written "Six hundred & fifty dollars". The clerk drew no footing line; the total exists only in the receipt's words. Lower sheet — a jacket, nothing to foot; its figure is $1,479 with the cents 10 written small above the flourish.
Flagged: the two sheets on this frame do not belong together — the account foots to $650.00 and was receipted 30 July 1862, while the jacket beneath is No. 62 for $1,479.10, paid 1st Quarter 1862. Do not read the jacket's number or sum onto the account. "No. 12." at the head of the upper sheet is the printed Confederate form number, not a voucher number. The year "186 2" in the Date of Purchase column has been struck through by the clerk. An inkblot obscures the words immediately after "Capt W H Echols" in the receipt line; the printed "Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army" follows.
Image 35 — Account for Voucher No. 62, fort ironwork, gins and torpedoes, $1,479.10, Savannah 20 March 1862
The long account belonging to the jacket at Image 34 (No. 62): about thirty lines of ironwork, castings and machine work on the printed Engineer's Department, Savannah form, with brace-and-margin headings gathering groups of lines. This frame is the faintest and lowest-resolution scan in the run — much of the description column will not resolve at any magnification, so the transcription below records only what is genuinely legible.
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer's Department, Savannah, Georgia,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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Date of Purchase. | Dollars. | Cts.
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Dec 3[1]/61 [illegible] 1 Strap Bolt 6 lb[?] 12 for Gate way | v 9 30
9 12 Eye Bolts for Mortar Platform 75 | v 9
Jany 2/62 [illegible] Cutting 1 Plate 3.00 for Gun platform | v 3
1 Bell Crank [ ...illegible... ] 6 Screw pins 3.00 | v 44 40
12 do Platform for Fort Pulaski 12 Eye Bolts,
1 Nut & 1 Washer 75 | v 9
20 1 Iron Bow Ring, 3/4 days of Maxwell & Sullivan | v 3 75
1/2 day Cochran for Same c | v 1 25
Feby 3[?] ( For 2 do Pulaski 190 ft of 3/8 x 12 Timber [ ... ] | v 4 [?]
( 20 of 3 inch Screws 1.00 1 Bronze[?] Chest [ ... ] | v 39 65
Gin ( 4 of 3/4 Bolts 17 inches Long 3.00 [ ... ] | v 8 60
platform ( 1 [illegible] Washer 60 lbs | v 3 10
( 4 of 3/4 Washers 20 3 days of Carpenters [ ... ] 3.00 | v 3 03
( 1 Extra Crank Casting 19 lb 30 Screws 1.00 | v 31 05
6 For 1 Iron Bow Ring, 1 Iron [ ... ] 3 x 3/4 20 ft 8.00 | v 1 60
Repairing ( 1 Horn of Smith Cutter[?] Chain | v 80
Gin ( [illegible] Bolt 3 lb[?] Long 20 - 11[?] 7 Chisels [ ... ] 2.00 | v 2 90
( Bolt & [illegible] 27 [ ... ] Pulley Wheel [ ... ] | v 1 37
8 Carpenters[?] By Capt Ives welding 30 lb 21c &
31 Washers 3.00 = 213.00[?] | v 216 50
12 Eye Bolts for Cavalier Staff[?] 75 | v 9
Wharfage on 100 M ft of Lumber for Batteries 30c per M | v 25[?]
17 do Watchman [ ... ] 5 3/4 days [ ... ] 3 [ ... ] | v 20 25
6 days of [illegible] on Same 2.00 | v 12
[illegible] 1 day 75c 1 day 40c 6 Bath[?] Bolts 55 - 3 | v 9 00
Making Pattern for Stake Mortar Gin | v 38
1 Iron Mortar & Shell 855 lb 6c | v 51 30
One Chassis( Filling & fitting 5 1 Composition Chamber 3 | v 8
Gin ( [illegible] Rolling Iron 1 | v 2
( 5 Mortar Stake Gins 61[?] Each | v 353 95
Making Pattern for Torpedoes | v 10
( Cost of One Torpedo 1 Casting 90 lb 6c | v 15
One ( " " " 4 Pieces of Composition 12 lb 40c | v 4 80
Torpedoe ( " " " Rolling Caps & Hands | v 8
( " " " Drilling & fitting Castings | v 4
( 9 Torpedoes 31.00 Each | v 286 20
10 Floats of do for Torpedoes | v 15 0
28 Capt Ives 650 lb Cast Iron whele[?] 6c }
for anchors. } | v 39
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| v 1479 10
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just.
Wm H Echols
Capt of Eng[r]s
RECEIVED at Savannah Geo on the 20 of Mch 186 2
of Capt W H Echols Corps of Eng[r]s Confederate States Army,
One Thousand four hundred & seventy nine dollars and ten. cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
[pencil computation in the margin, illegible]
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: the only line I can prove is the last — 650 lb cast iron at 6c = $39.00 ✔ exact. The footing is written $1,479.10 and agrees with the receipt's words ("One Thousand four hundred & seventy nine dollars and ten cents") and with the jacket at Image 34, so the document is internally consistent at the total. I did not foot the column: too many of the thirty-odd extensions are illegible for a sum to mean anything, and adding guessed figures would be worse than adding none.
Flagged: this is a partial transcription and should be treated as one. The scan is faint, low-contrast and only about 724 pixels wide, and roughly half the description column and several of the cent figures will not resolve. Every uncertain reading above is marked [?] and every unreadable stretch is marked [illegible]. What is legible and worth recording: the marginal headings "Gin platform", "Repairing Gin", "One Chassis Gin" and "One Torpedoe"; Fort Pulaski; mortar platforms and a gun platform; a cavalier staff; five Mortar Stake Gins; a pattern made for torpedoes, the itemised cost of one torpedo (casting, composition pieces, caps and bands, drilling and fitting), nine torpedoes at $31.00 each, ten floats for them, and 650 lb of cast iron bought for torpedo anchors; wharfage on lumber for batteries; and the workmen Maxwell, Sullivan and Cochran. Capt. [Joseph C.] Ives appears twice as the officer ordering work, alongside Capt. W. H. Echols who certifies and pays. "No. 12." at the head is the printed form number, not the voucher number — this is Voucher No. 62.
Image 36 — Voucher jacket, C. S. Engineer's Department, No. 28, 2d Quarter 1862, $282.65[?]
A printed voucher jacket, the outside of the folded packet, with an auditor's tick below the signature; the right-hand half of the frame is filled with reversed show-through from the account folded inside.
C. S. Engineer's Department.
No. 28 ..........
Paid 2d Quarter ......... 186 2
$ 282 65[?]
A. N. Miller
_________
v
[oval stamp, struck at an angle:]
RECORD DIVISION,
* REBEL ARCHIVES, *
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Checks: a jacket, nothing to foot. The dollars are unmistakably 282; the two cent figures are written small above a ruling stroke.
Flagged: the second cent digit is ambiguous between 5 and 6 — this hand's 5 and 6 are both a bowl with a rising stroke, and at this size they are not separable, so I read 65 [?] and note that 66 cannot be excluded. Nothing else on the leaf is doubtful. The reversed writing on the right is show-through, not text on this leaf.
Image 37 — Account for Voucher No. 28, two bills for pile-driver work, footed $282.05, Savannah 25 July 1862
The account belonging to the jacket at Image 36 — a summary sheet rather than an itemised bill: two lines, each standing for a separate bill folded in with it, both braced under a single heading.
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer's Department, Savannah, Georgia,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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Date of Purchase. | DOLLARS. | CTS.
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1862 [struck through] Applied in building Pile Drivers }
May 28 Amt Bill accompanying } X 157 97
Jun 9 " do " } X 130 08
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X 282 05
I Certify that the above account is correct and just.
W H Echols Capt of Eng[r]s
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, on the 25 - of July 186 2
of Capt W H Echols Corps of Engineer's, C. S. Army,
Two hundred & eighty two dollars and five cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed in duplicate.)
A. N. Miller
Checks: the column does not prove. 157.97 + 130.08 = 288.05, but the footing is written 282.05 and the receipt spells out "Two hundred & eighty two dollars and five cents" — the entries exceed the footing by exactly $6.00. The cents do agree: .97 + .08 = 1.05, giving 05 with a dollar carried, so the disagreement is entirely in the dollars.
Flagged: This is a genuine unreconciled sheet and I have left every figure as written. All three doubtful digits were examined at high magnification: the 7 of 157 has a flat top bar and straight diagonal and is certainly a 7; the 2 in the footing's 282 is certainly a 2; the second digit of 130 is this clerk's bowl-form, which serves him for both 3 and 5, so 150 cannot be entirely excluded — but 150 makes the divergence worse ($26.00), not better. A reading of 151.97 on the first line would make the column prove exactly, and that is presumably what a nineteenth-century auditor assumed, but it is not what the page says. The footing's cents are written over an earlier figure and are blotted; the receipt's words settle them at 05. Note also that the jacket at Image 36 gives the cents as what I read there as 65 [?] — this sheet and its receipt both say 05, so the jacket's cents are probably 05 as well, but neither figure has been altered here. The two "Amt Bill accompanying" lines mean the itemised bills were separate enclosures; they are not on this leaf.
Image 38 — Manuscript bill, traverse circle, coal and submarine-bomb work, $130.08, Savannah July 1862
A wholly manuscript bill on ruled paper — no printed form — with the clerk's own multiplication worked out in pencil at the foot. This is the second of the two enclosures summarised on the sheet at Image 37: its total, $130.08, is that sheet's June 9 line exactly.
C S Engineer Dept.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
April 2/62 To 1 Cast Iron Traverse Circle & Nails for
New Battery 500 lb - 6c v 30 . -
22 To Fort Rosedew[?] 3 Cold Chisels - 3.00 v 9 .
1 Sledge to Capt Dickison v 3 .
2 Cold Chisels - 2.00 v 4
29 5 [Bbls, struck through] Coal v 10
May 12 2 Bbls Coal - v 4
28 3 Punch[?] Blocks - 15.00 Each v 45 .
31 ( 1 stick Timber for Water Ram[?] - v 3 .
" C ( 2 3/4 days work on Same - 3.50 v 9 . 63
" o ( 1 3/4 " drilling tapping & fitting water joints 8 . 75
m ( 10 Cap Bolts - 25 v 2 . 50
June 9 p ( 4 - 5/8 Bolts - 30 v 1 . 20
l ------------
e $ 130 . 08
t
i Sav[anna]h July 1862
n
g Sub marine Bomb[?]
[pencil working at the foot:]
2 75
3 1/2
-------
8 25
1 38
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9 63
Checks: extensions — 500 lb cast iron @ 6c = $30.00 ✔; 3 cold chisels @ $3.00 = $9.00 ✔; 2 cold chisels @ $2.00 = $4.00 ✔; 3 punch blocks @ $15.00 = $45.00 ✔; 10 cap bolts @ 25c = $2.50 ✔; 4 bolts @ 30c = $1.20 ✔; the coal is consistent at $2.00 a barrel across both lines (5 bbls = $10.00, 2 bbls = $4.00 ✔). The labour: 2 3/4 days @ $3.50 = $9.625, entered as $9.63 — rounded up a half cent, and the clerk's own pencil working at the foot shows exactly how he got there (2.75 x 3 = 8.25; 2.75 x 1/2 = 1.38; 8.25 + 1.38 = 9.63 ✔). The 1 3/4 days on the next line is entered at $8.75 with no rate written; that implies $5.00 a day. Footing — 30.00 + 9.00 + 3.00 + 4.00 + 10.00 + 4.00 + 45.00 + 3.00 + 9.63 + 8.75 + 2.50 + 1.20 = $130.08 ✔ exact, and it matches the June 9 entry on the summary sheet at Image 37 to the penny.
Flagged: the fort named on 22 April is written fast and I cannot settle it beyond Fort Rosedew[?] — the terminal letters read "dew" and the whole is consistent with Rosedew, but the reading is not certain. The vertical margin note bracketing the last five lines reads "Completing / Sub marine / Bomb[?]" — the last word's capital could be C or B, and only "Bomb" makes sense of it, so I record it as Bomb [?]. Punch[?] Blocks and Water Ram[?] are both possible but not certain readings. On the 29 April line the word after "5" has been struck through and rewritten; the unit must be barrels for the coal price to agree with the May 12 line, but the struck word itself is illegible. Capt. Dickison is a new officer name in this range. Note that this bill's $130.08 reconciles perfectly with the summary sheet, which strengthens the case that the $6.00 divergence recorded at Image 37 lies in the first bill's figure (157.97) rather than in this one.
Image 39 — C. S. Engineer Dept. bill, pile-driver and bridge ironwork, $151.97, May 1862
A single lined leaf, written on the lower half only, the upper half blank where the sheet was folded; a vertical annotation runs up the left margin, and a clerk's check mark stands against most extensions.
C. S. Engineer Dept
To A. N. Miller Dr
May 19/62 To 126 tt Screw bolts for Pile Driver — 25ᵈ ✓ $ 31.50
20 " 52 3/4 tt Screw bolts 30 ✓ 15.82
" 15 tt Washers 30 ✓ 4.50
" 30 tt Spikes 25 ✓ 7.50
" Pile Driver 13 of 1 Inch Bolts 3 ft 6 in long 117 tt @ 25 29.25
" 12 of 3/4 Bolts 22 Inches long $1⁰⁰ Each ✓ 12.
" 26 Inch Washers 20 ✓ 5.20
" 12 Drills 20 ✓ 2.40
" 6 — 3/4 Bolts 13 Inches long 15 ✓ .90
" 2 Inch Bolts 13 Inch long @ 1⁰⁰ Each ✓ 2.
" 20 — 3/4 Bolts 15 Inches long 50 ✓ 10.
28 " 2 Nuts 3 Plugs for Cock 14 tt Brass 60 ✓ 8.40
" 1/2 day Turning plug ✓ 3.
" 1/2 day of 2 hands Grinding[?] plug & bore 3.50
" 3 Stop[?] Cocks — 4⁰⁰ Each ✓ 12.
" 1/2 day chasing Cocks & bolts ✓ 3.
" 2[?] Bolts — 50 ✓ 1.
$151.97
Sav.[h] Aug[?] 1862
[left margin, written vertically] For Building Pile Driver
Checks: 126 × .25 = 31.50 ✔ · 52¾ × .30 = 15.825, entered 15.82 ✔ (dropped fraction) · 15 × .30 = 4.50 ✔ · 30 × .25 = 7.50 ✔ · 117 × .25 = 29.25 ✔ · 12 × 1.00 = 12.00 ✔ · 26 × .20 = 5.20 ✔ · 12 × .20 = 2.40 ✔ · 6 × .15 = .90 ✔ · 2 × 1.00 = 2.00 ✔ · 20 × .50 = 10.00 ✔ · 14 × .60 = 8.40 ✔ · 3 × 4.00 = 12.00 ✔. Footing: 31.50 + 15.82 + 4.50 + 7.50 + 29.25 + 12.00 + 5.20 + 2.40 + .90 + 2.00 + 10.00 + 8.40 + 3.00 + 3.50 + 12.00 + 3.00 + 1.00 = 151.97 ✔ exact.
Flagged: the month in the date line at the foot is not legible with confidence — the strokes will bear either "Aug" or "Ap'l", and the entries themselves run 19–28 May 1862, so an April date would be impossible; recorded as Aug[?]. The quantity in the last item is written like the clerk's "2" but could be read "3"; only 2 × .50 = 1.00 agrees with the extension and the footing, and the figure is left as written. "Grinding" and "Stop" (Cocks) are both uncertain readings.
Image 40 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 221, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $473.03, paid 11 Oct 1861
The outer face of a folded voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, filmed flat so the fold panels show; a "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck across the lower half.
No. 22.
—— • ◆ • ——
No 221. ABSTRACT B..... 4th ..... QR. 1861.
—— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller.
$473. 3/100
Paid 11 of Oct[r]. 1861.
————
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: no computation on the jacket — a single sum, $473.03, and nothing to foot.
Flagged: "No. 22." at the head is the printed Confederate form number, not this voucher's number; the voucher's own number is the manuscript 221 on the Abstract line. Nothing else on the panel is doubtful.
Image 41 — Voucher on Form No. 22, wharfage and use of crane, $473.31, receipted 11 October 1861
The printed Confederate voucher belonging to jacket No. 221 — a ruled money-column form, certified in the left margin by the ordnance officer and receipted at the foot; the whole account is wharfage and the hire of Miller's crane for landing guns, carriages, shot and powder.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Aug 22 Wharfage & use of Crain on 6. 32ᵈ Guns & carrys 60 ⁰⁰
" " " " " 1 10ᵗʰ Carriage 3 — 63 00
27 " " " " " 4. 32ᵈ Guns & Carriages 40 ⁰⁰
Sept 5 " " " " " 8 " " " 80 ⁰⁰
" " " " " 1 10ᵗʰ Carriage 3 ⁰⁰
" " " " " 1 42" " " 2 ⁰⁰ 125 00
9 " " " " " 14. 32ᵈ Guns & Carriages 140 ⁰⁰
" " " " " 2 42 Carriages 4 ⁰⁰
12 " on 12 Tons Shot & Shell @ 25¢ 3 ⁰⁰ 147 00
" use of Crain on 2 42 Carriages 4 ⁰⁰
" on 3¾ Tons Shot & shell @ 25 ⁸¹
" use of Crain on 1 10ᵗʰ Platform 2 ⁰⁰ 6 81
" 40 Bbls Powder @ 5 2 ⁰⁰
20 " use of Crain 4. 32ᵈ Guns & Carriages 40 ⁰⁰ 42 00
" " " " 1 42 Carriage 2 ⁰⁰
" on 30 Tons Shot & Shell 7 ⁵⁰
" on 40 Pullies Blocks &c @ 2⁰⁰ 80 89 50
$473 31
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
[left margin, written vertically]
I certify that within acct is
correct —
Rich[d] M. Cuyler[?] Cap[t] C. S. A.
Ordnance Officer
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[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received October 11ᵗʰ , 1861 , of Major Smith
Four hundred seventy three dollars and Thirty one cents, in full of the
above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: guns and carriages are charged at $10 each and 42-pdr carriages at $2 each throughout. Group 1: 60.00 + 3.00 = 63.00 ✔. Group 2: 40.00 + 80.00 + 3.00 + 2.00 = 125.00 ✔. Group 3: 140.00 (14 × 10) + 4.00 (2 × 2) + 3.00 (12 tons × 25¢) = 147.00 ✔. Group 4: 4.00 + .81 (3¾ tons × 25¢ = .8125, dropped to .81) + 2.00 = 6.81 ✔. Group 5: 2.00 (40 bbls × 5¢) + 40.00 = 42.00 ✔. Group 6: 2.00 + 7.50 (30 tons × 25¢) + 80.00 (40 × 2.00) = 89.50 ✔. Footing: 63.00 + 125.00 + 147.00 + 6.81 + 42.00 + 89.50 = 473.31 ✔ exact, and the receipt writes it out as four hundred seventy three dollars and thirty one cents ✔.
Flagged: the jacket at Image 40 carries the sum as "$473. 3/100" where this voucher foots $473.31 — the jacket's fraction is almost certainly 31/100 written with the 1 run into the solidus, but it is recorded here as it appears. The ordnance officer's surname is a hard reading; the strokes will support "Cuyler" and the initials read "Rich[d] M.", but it is marked [?]. The quartermaster's signature reads "J. S. Smith" or "S. S. Smith", and the abbreviation under it before the printed word "Quartermaster" is not certain. "Crain" is the clerk's own spelling of crane and is left as written.
Image 42 — Engineer Department voucher jacket, No. 85, $75, paid 8 August 1863
The outer panel of a folded Engineer Department voucher jacket, printed in blackletter and filled in by hand; the sheet is heavily foxed, carries a large pencil check mark below the endorsement, a faint "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp, and the archival number 18 written sideways in the right margin.
• C. S. Engineer's Department
• No. 85 —.............
Paid..... 8ᵗʰ August ..... 1863
$. 75 Dolls .............
A. N. Miller
─────────────────
✓
[faint oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
[right margin] 18
Checks: no columns and no footing — a single endorsed sum, $75.
Flagged: nothing doubtful. "No. 85" here is the Engineer Department's own voucher number written on the jacket, not a printed form number.
Image 43 — Voucher on Form No. 12, 1 wench [winch] timber, $75.00, receipted 8 August 1863
The printed Engineer Department purchase voucher belonging to jacket No. 85 — a single-line account on a Savannah letterhead form, certified by the chief engineer for the State of Georgia and receipted by Miller; a few offset ink blots show through in the blank middle of the sheet.
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer's Department, Savannah, Georgia.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Aug 6ᵗʰ | 1 Wench[)] Timber | $75.00 ✓
I Certify that the above account is correct and just.
John McCrady
Capt & Chief Eng[r]
State of Geo
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, on the 8ᵗʰ of August 186 3
of Capt. Jno. McCrady Corps of Engineer's, C. S. Army,
Seventy five dollars and ———————— cents,
in full of the above account.
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
A. N. Miller
Checks: one item, $75.00, and no footing to prove; the receipt writes out "Seventy five" dollars and no cents, which agrees ✔.
Flagged: the mark between "Wench" and "Timber" is a single curved stroke that may be a closing parenthesis, a comma, or an ampersand — recorded as [)]. "Wench" is the clerk's spelling and is left as written. The printed "No. 12." at the head is the Confederate form number, not this voucher's number; the voucher number, 85, is on the jacket at Image 42.
Image 44 — Voucher jacket, "For Fortifying the Coast of Georgia," Voucher No. 26, $2,210.70, paid 30 Nov. 1861
A folded voucher jacket filmed flat, the endorsement panel written in a clerk's copperplate over a blackletter printed line; a "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp is struck across the lower panel, and mirror-image show-through from an adjoining sheet runs down the far left edge.
For Fortifying the
Coast of Georgia
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A.
Voucher No. 26
A. N. Miller
───────────────────
Paid Nov. 30 ᵗʰ
4 ᵗʰ [blotted] Quarter, 1861
• •
$ 2210.70
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✓
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: a single endorsed sum, $2,210.70; nothing on the jacket to foot.
Flagged: the ordinal after the "4" in the quarter line is struck through by a heavy ink blot and cannot be read, though "4 ... Quarter, 1861" is plain. The voucher number is written with a long lead-in stroke on the second figure; read as 26.
Image 45 — Two documents on one frame: Engineer voucher for traverse circles, $2,210.70, receipted 30 Nov. 1861; and jacket Voucher No. 29, $2,619.00
The frame carries two separate papers, one above the other. The upper is the printed Savannah Engineer Department voucher answering to jacket No. 26 at Image 44 — an account for traverse circles, pintles and platform ironwork for the coast batteries and for several steamers, with a two-line note written vertically in the left margin against the first four lines. The lower paper is a different, later voucher jacket on Form No. 22 and belongs to no voucher in this run.
[UPPER SHEET]
The Engineer's Department, Confederate States, Savannah, Geo.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE OF | DOLLARS.| CTS.
PURCHASE. "Green Island"
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
28⁸⁰ 1²⁵
Aug 24 | 1 Traverse Circle 192@15 30 5ⁱⁿ[?] Screws 30 ⁰⁵
⌠ 4²⁵ 6⁰⁰[?]
| 190 feet 15x15 Timber @25ᵈᵒ 4¾ Bolts 10 ²⁵
[One | 2³⁸ 3¹⁵
plat- ⌡ 1 Pintle 15½ @ 15ᵈ 1 Center plate & Washers 63@5 5 ⁵³
form ⌠ ¹³ 2⁵⁰
com- ⌡ 4¾ Washers ½ day Carpenter & helper 2 ⁶³ ✓ 48 46
plete]
"Green Island"
3 Traverse Circles Pintles &c @48⁴⁶ ✓ 145 38
27 | 4 " " " " " St Simons " ✓ 193 84
Sept 2 | 2 " " " " "Genesis Point" ✓ 96 92
5 | 7 " " " " "Sapelo & Isle beau[?]" ✓ 339 22
7 | 2 " " " " " Str Habersham " ✓ 96 92
12 | 4 " " " " " " Reliance " ✓ 193 84
18 | 2 " " " " " " Chatham " ✓ 96 92
| 20 " " " " " bal to make " ✓ 969 20
2000 feet 2in Plank del "Capt Screven" @15ᵐ ✓ 30 00
$ ✓ 2210 70
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I Certify that the above account is correct and just.
W. H. Echols
4846 60[?] Capt & Chf Eng
969 20
Received at Savannah Geo , the 30 Th of Nov , 1861
of Capt. W. H. Echols Chief Engineer, Twenty two hundred & ten dollars
and Seventy cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(Signed duplicates.)
[LOWER SHEET — a separate voucher jacket]
No. 22.
——
No. 29 Abstract B. Fourth Qr., 186 3[?]
——◄•►——
A. N. Miller
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$ 2619 ⁰⁰
Paid 10 ᵗʰ of November 186 3[?]
[faint oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: the head of the account builds one complete traverse circle for Green Island — 28.80 (192 × 15¢ ✔) + 1.25 = 30.05 ✔; 4.25 + 6.00 = 10.25 ✔; 2.38 + 3.15 (63 × 5¢ ✔) = 5.53 ✔; .13 + 2.50 = 2.63 ✔ — and those four foot to 30.05 + 10.25 + 5.53 + 2.63 = 48.46 ✔ exact, which then becomes the unit rate for every line below. 3 × 48.46 = 145.38 ✔ · 4 × 48.46 = 193.84 ✔ · 2 × 48.46 = 96.92 ✔ · 7 × 48.46 = 339.22 ✔ · 2 × 48.46 = 96.92 ✔ · 4 × 48.46 = 193.84 ✔ · 2 × 48.46 = 96.92 ✔ · 20 × 48.46 = 969.20 ✔ · 2000 ft plank @ $15 per M = 30.00 ✔. Footing: 48.46 + 145.38 + 193.84 + 96.92 + 339.22 + 96.92 + 193.84 + 96.92 + 969.20 + 30.00 = 2210.70 ✔ exact, and the receipt writes it out as twenty two hundred and ten dollars and seventy cents ✔.
Flagged: the place name on the 5 September line is not legible with confidence — it reads "Sapelo & Isle beau" but the second element could be something else entirely; marked [?]. The superscript against "4¾ Bolts" reads as either 5⁵⁰ or 6⁰⁰; only 6⁰⁰ agrees with the row's 10²⁵, and it is recorded as 6⁰⁰ with a [?]. The screw size in the first line ("5ⁱⁿ") is a guess at a heavily abbreviated word. The two-figure working beside the certificate — "4846 60" over "969 20" — is the clerk checking 48.46 × 20 = 969.20; the second figure on the upper line is doubtful. The year on the lower jacket is smudged in both places and read as 1863. Note that the lower jacket ($2,619.00, Voucher No. 29, 4th Qr.) does not belong to the voucher above it ($2,210.70, 1861, jacket No. 26 at Image 44) — two unrelated papers share the frame.
Image 46 — Voucher on Form No. 22, repairs of Str. Ida, $2,619.40, receipted 10 November 1863
The printed Confederate voucher answering to the jacket at the foot of Image 45 (Voucher No. 29, Abstract B) — a long machine-shop and boiler account for the steamer Ida, run over twenty-eight lines in a fine hand, with the extension of each line written as small superscript figures inside the description and the row sum carried into the money columns.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | Repairs of "Str Ida" Services & material rendered | DOLLARS | CTS.
1863 |
June | 1 Vice Strap 2⁰⁰ 19 tt of new boiler Iron @ 1⁰⁰ 21 |
| 2 bolts &c [?] ¼ day chasing do @ [?] 2 | 87
| Dressing 2 Chisels & 1 drill ⁷⁵ ¼ day on gib pattern ¹²⁵ 2 |
| 1½ day Boiler Makers & ¼ do @ 5[?] 11 | 25
| 5. tt bolts &c [?] 10. tt Washers &c [?] 3 | 50
| 3 tt of borings @ ³⁰ 4 do Sheet Iron @ 1⁰⁰ (new) 4 | 30
Septr | 10¾ days Boiler Maker @ 8⁰⁰ pr day 86 |
| 84 " " " @ 7⁰⁰ " " 588 |
| 9½ " " " @ 6⁰⁰ " " 57 |
| 23¾ " " Helpers @ 5⁰⁰ " " 118 | 75
| 56½ " " " @ 2⁵⁰ " " 141 | 25
| 8¾ " Finishers ———— @ 8⁰⁰ " " 70 |
| ⁹/₁₀ " Blacksmith & Helpers @ 20⁰⁰ " " 18 |
| 2¼ " Pattern Maker @ 7⁰⁰ " " 15 | 75
| 6½ " use of Drill Press @ 6⁰⁰ " " 39 |
| 20 " " " Forge @ 2⁰⁰ " " 40 |
| ½ " boring brace boxes @ 10⁰⁰ " " 5 |
| 8½ hours turning rollers joint &c " " 8 | 50
| 1 Knuckle joint for valve seat 8⁰⁰ & 2 pins 2⁷⁵ 10 | 75
| Repairing Wrench, Bolts, Nuts, Drills & Chisels 13 | 75
| Making Bolts, nuts, Keys, Sockets, & Nails 175 | 18
| 6 Brace gibs & 7 brace boxes 19½ @ 1⁵⁰ 29 | 25
| 1 Strap for Mast 2⁵⁰ 2 bars for bearings 70@40ᵈ ²⁸⁰⁰ 30 | 50
| 40 tt of bar iron @30 ¹²⁰⁰ 20 tt of Old sheet iron @20ᵈ ⁴⁰⁰ 16 |
| 331 tt boiler iron @30ᵈ ⁹⁹³⁰ 85 tt Boiler iron @50 ⁴²⁵⁰ 141 | 80
| 340 " " " " for fire bed @25 85 |
| 142[?] tt Rivets @1⁵⁰ 90 tt of tt Rivets @2⁰⁰ 390 |
| 2 Ash pans, 2 Shives, 18 grate bars & 1 Beam 1650[?]@30ᵈ 495 |
$ 2619 | 40
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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 the
public service.
Jas T Stewart Maj & QM ~~Assistant~~ Quartermaster.
RECEIVED Savannah Nov 10ᵗʰ 1863 , of Jas T Stewart Maj & QM
Twenty six hundred and nineteen Dollars, and forty Cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed duplicates.) A. N. Miller
Checks: the day-rate lines all prove — 10¾ × 8 = 86.00 ✔ · 84 × 7 = 588.00 ✔ · 9½ × 6 = 57.00 ✔ · 23¾ × 5 = 118.75 ✔ · 56½ × 2.50 = 141.25 ✔ · 8¾ × 8 = 70.00 ✔ · ⁹/₁₀ × 20 = 18.00 ✔ · 2¼ × 7 = 15.75 ✔ · 6½ × 6 = 39.00 ✔ · 20 × 2 = 40.00 ✔ · ½ × 10 = 5.00 ✔ · 19½ × 1.50 = 29.25 ✔. Material lines: 2.00 + 19.00 = 21.00 ✔ · .75 + 1.25 = 2.00 ✔ · .30 + 4.00 = 4.30 ✔ · 8.00 + 2.75 = 10.75 ✔ · 2.50 + 28.00 (70 × 40¢) = 30.50 ✔ · 12.00 (40 × 30¢) + 4.00 (20 × 20¢) = 16.00 ✔ · 99.30 (331 × 30¢) + 42.50 (85 × 50¢) = 141.80 ✔ · 340 × 25¢ = 85.00 ✔ · 1650 × 30¢ = 495.00 ✔. Footing of all twenty-eight extensions: 21.00 + 2.87 + 2.00 + 11.25 + 3.50 + 4.30 + 86.00 + 588.00 + 57.00 + 118.75 + 141.25 + 70.00 + 18.00 + 15.75 + 39.00 + 40.00 + 5.00 + 8.50 + 10.75 + 13.75 + 175.18 + 29.25 + 30.50 + 16.00 + 141.80 + 85.00 + 390.00 + 495.00 = 2619.40 ✔ exact, and the receipt writes it out as twenty six hundred and nineteen dollars and forty cents ✔.
Flagged: the rivet line does not prove as read. 142 lbs at $1.50 plus 90 lbs at $2.00 is $393.00, three dollars more than the $390.00 entered; a quantity of 140 lbs would prove exactly, and the figure could be read either way. The entered $390.00 is what makes the footing close, so the extension is left as the clerk wrote it and the divergence is reported, not corrected. The beam's weight in the last line is not certain — 1650 lbs at 30¢ gives exactly the $495.00 entered, but the figure is faint. The sub-figures on the second June line ("2 bolts &c … ¼ day chasing do") and on the "5 tt bolts / 10 tt Washers" line are too small to read, though both row sums are plain; the rate on the "1½ day Boiler Makers & ¼ do" line is likewise unreadable. Note also that the jacket at the foot of Image 45 endorses this voucher's sum as "$2619 ⁰⁰" where the voucher itself foots $2,619.40 and the receipt says forty cents — the jacket's fraction is almost certainly ⁴⁰ badly formed.
Image 47 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 162, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $1.25, paid 23 December 1861
A voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, filmed flat and very lightly inked; a "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval stamp fills the lower panel, and reversed show-through from the voucher folded inside — the words "The Confederate States" and "No. 22." read backwards — runs down the right-hand panels.
No. 22.
—— • ◆ • ——
No 162[?] . ABSTRACT B........ 4 . QR. 1861 .
—— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller
$ 1 ²⁵/₁₀₀
Paid 23 of December 1861 .
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: a single sum, $1.25, with nothing to foot.
Flagged: the last figure of the voucher number is formed like this clerk's "2" but could be taken for a "7"; read as 162 and marked [?]. "No. 22." at the head is the printed form number, not the voucher number.
Image 48 — Voucher on Form No. 22, wharfage on lumber and tent poles, $1.25, receipted 28 December 1861
The printed Confederate voucher belonging to jacket No. 162 at Image 47 — two lines of wharfage charged to the Quartermaster's Department, the rest of the ruled sheet left blank.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
| Quarter Masters Department | |
1861 | | |
Oct 26 | To Wharfage on Lot Lumber | | 25
| " " " 50 Tent Poles | 1 | 00
| | 1 | 25
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received Savannah Decr 28 , 1861 , of Maj J. S. Smith A.Q.M.
One ———— dollars and Twenty five cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: .25 + 1.00 = 1.25 ✔ exact, and the receipt writes it out as one dollar and twenty-five cents ✔.
Flagged: the jacket at Image 47 endorses this as paid the 23rd of December while the receipt here is plainly dated Decr 28 — the two are transcribed as they stand and not reconciled. The quartermaster's first initial is again ambiguous between J and S.
Image 49 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 161, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $16.90, paid 28 December 1861
Another very faint voucher jacket on Form No. 22, filmed flat; the "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval fills the lower panel, and the voucher folded inside shows through in reverse on the right — "The Confederate States", "No. 22.—(Voucher.)", "Dr." and, sideways, the word "Lumber".
No. 22.
—— • ◆ • ——
No 161 . ABSTRACT B........ 4 . QR. 1861 .
—— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller
$ 16 ⁹⁰/₁₀₀
Paid 28 of December 1861 .
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: a single sum, $16.90; nothing to foot.
Flagged: nothing doubtful on the panel. The "28" here is written with a closed double-loop eight, plainly different from the "23" on the jacket at Image 47, which supports reading those two dates as genuinely different days.
Image 50 — Two documents on one frame: Commissary wharfage voucher, $16.90, receipted 28 Dec.; and jacket Voucher No. 163, $190.85
The frame holds two papers. The upper is the printed voucher answering to jacket No. 161 at Image 49 — nine lines of wharfage on Commissary stores landed at Miller's wharf. The lower is a separate voucher jacket opened out flat so that both its printed panels show: the left panel filled in, the right panel a duplicate carrying only the name and the sum.
[UPPER SHEET]
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | Commissary Department | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1861 | | |
Oct 26ᵗʰ | To Wharfage on 20 Bxs Soap | | 40
| " " " 15 Bbls Sugar | | 75
| " " " 10 Bags Coffee | | 20
| " " " 10 Casks Rice | | 50
| " " " 10 Bxs Candles | | 20
| " " " 250 Bbls Flour | 12 | 50
| " " " 150 Sacks Meal | 1 | 50
| " " " 20 Sacks Salt | | 60
| " " " 2 Hhds Bacon | | 25
| | 16 | 90
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received Savannah December 28ᵗʰ , 186_ , of Maj J. S. Smith A.Q.M.
Sixteen ———— dollars and Ninety cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
[LOWER SHEET — a voucher jacket opened flat, both panels showing]
No. 22. | No. 22.
—— • ◆ • —— | —— • ◆ • ——
No 163 . ABSTRACT B....... 4 . QR. 1861.| No ...... ABSTRACT B...... 4 . QR. 1861 .
—— • ◆ • —— | —— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller | A. N. Miller
$ 190. ⁸⁵/₁₀₀ | $ 190. ⁸⁵/₁₀₀
Paid 23 of December 1861 . | Paid ______ of ______ 186 __ .
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: .40 + .75 + .20 + .50 + .20 + 12.50 + 1.50 + .60 + .25 = 16.90 ✔ exact, and the receipt writes it out as sixteen dollars and ninety cents ✔, agreeing with the $16.90 endorsed on jacket No. 161 at Image 49 ✔. The jacket below carries a single sum, $190.85, with nothing to foot.
Flagged: the year in the receipt's printed "186__" was never filled in, though the jacket at Image 49 fixes the payment at 28 December 1861. The right-hand jacket panel has no voucher number and no payment date entered. The quartermaster's first initial is again ambiguous between J and S. Note that the jacket on this frame (No. 163, $190.85) belongs to a different voucher from the one printed above it.
Image 51 — Voucher on Form No. 22 for a hoisting machine, $190.85, receipted 23 December 1861
The printed Confederate voucher answering to jacket No. 163 at Image 50, docketed "for Hoisting Machine" in a small hand above the printed "To"; some forty lines of shop time by named workmen and of ironwork for the fly wheel, windlass, derrick and engine, the daily rates written as small superscripts inside each line and group sums carried into the money columns. The scan is faint and finely written, and much of the figuring is at the edge of what can be read.
[for Hoisting Machine]
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Oct 24 | 4 hours Kennedy 1²⁰ & Maxwell 1²⁰ 2 ⁴⁰
| ¼ day Corkette[?] @ 3⁰⁰ ⁷⁵ 3 | 15
26 | 1 " Kennedy Maxwell & Corkette[?] @ 3⁰⁰ 9 ⁰⁰
| ¼ " Chambers ⁵⁰ 9 | 50
29 | 1 hour Cronin ³⁰ Maxwell ³⁰ Corkette ³⁰
| Chambers ²⁰ 1 ¹⁰
Nov 7 | 4¼ day on Wheel Pattern @ 3⁰⁰ 12 ²⁵
| ¼ " Chambers on board 1 ²⁰[?] 14 | 55
8 | 1 Wheel 1076 @ 5ᵈ[?] 26 ⁰⁰
| Refixing Cedar Pipe 1 ⁰⁰
| ½ day Coring Wheel 2⁵⁰ ½ day Miscally 1⁷⁵ 4 ²⁵
| ½ " Kennedy 1⁵⁰ Chambers 1⁵⁰ Roundtree[?] 1⁵⁰ [?]
| ¼ " Maxwell 3⁰⁰[?] & Moran 2⁰⁰[?] 1 ⁴⁵ 34 | 35
9 | 2 Ring bolts 6 Straps & 5 bolts for Engine 3 ⁰⁰
| 8 bolts for Kennedy 1 Band for Fly Wheel
| 8 Bars 25 ⁰⁰ 23 | 00
| 1 Union 141 @ 5ᵈ 7 ⁰⁵
| 8 hours borg [boring] Wheel & Union @ 50ᵈ 4 ⁰⁰
| 1 Fly Wheel 505[?] @ 5ᵈ 25 ²⁵
| 1 day McGraw 1⁷⁵ Miscally 3⁵⁰ Dempsey 1⁷⁵
| Kennedy 2⁵⁰ Chambers 2⁰⁰ Maxwell 2⁰⁰ Roundtree 2⁵⁰
| & McGraw jr 1⁵⁰ 20 ¹⁰
| Use of Crain Hoisting & placing Derrick 10 ⁰⁰
| 2¼ day Serant[?] on board 2 ²⁵ 6 | 55
13 | ¾ " boring Fly Wheel 3 ⁰⁰
| ½ day Miscally 1⁷⁵ & Sullivan 1⁰⁰ 2 ⁷⁵
| ¾ " Crowley 2 ²⁵
| 1 Link in chain ²⁵ & 1 Washer ²⁵
| 2 cords for Derrick 4 ⁰⁰
| 4 sett[?] bolts for Engine 1 ⁰⁰
| 1 Key & 2 Pins 2 ⁰⁰ 16 | 25
16 | 1 day Miscally 3⁵⁰ Crowley 3⁰⁰ Murphy 3⁰⁰ 9 ⁵⁰
| ½ " turning Fly Wheel 2 ⁵⁰
| Piece of Pipe for Suction 7 ⁷⁵[?]
| Dressing 1 Ring bolt ⁷⁵
| 2 Shovels for Windlass ⁵⁰
| 1 bolt 1⁰⁰ 1 Band for Wrench ²⁵ 1 ²⁵
| 1 Key for Shackle ⁵⁰
20 | Cutting Link out of chain ²⁵
Dec 5 | Dressing 1 Wrench ⁵⁰ 22 | 25
$ 190 | 85
|
| Correct J[?]. M. Jordan[?]
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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 the
public service.
J[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received Savannah December 23ᵈ 186 1 , of Maj. J. S. Smith A.Q.M.
One hundred & ninety dollars and Eighty five cents, in full of the
above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: the lines that can be read do prove among themselves — 1.20 + 1.20 = 2.40 ✔ and ¼ day at $3.00 = .75 ✔, giving the first group 2.40 + .75 = 3.15 ✔ exact; 9.00 + .50 = 9.50 ✔ exact; .30 + .30 + .30 + .20 = 1.10 ✔ exact; 2.50 + 1.75 = 4.25 ✔; 141 lbs at 5¢ = 7.05 ✔; 8 hours at 50¢ = 4.00 ✔; 2¼ days at $1.00 = 2.25 ✔; 1.75 + 1.00 = 2.75 ✔; 3.50 + 3.00 + 3.00 = 9.50 ✔; 1.00 + .25 = 1.25 ✔. The footing does not prove. The eight group sums as read — 3.15 + 9.50 + 14.55 + 34.35 + 23.00 + 6.55 + 16.25 + 22.25 — come to 129.60, which is $61.25 short of the $190.85 footed and receipted.
Flagged: this is the least legible sheet in the run, and the shortfall is a failure of the scan, not necessarily of the clerk: at least one group sum is being misread. The fifth group sum in particular is written so that it will read "23", "73" or "25", and the sixth as either "6.55" or "64.55"; neither variant closes the account, so none has been adopted and nothing has been adjusted to make the column come out. The sum actually paid is not in doubt — $190.85 is footed here, written out in the receipt, and endorsed on the jacket at Image 50 ✔. Individual doubtful readings are marked in place: the wheel weights (1076 and 505), the day-rates on the 8 November Maxwell and Moran line, the "1 ²⁰" on the 7 November Chambers line, and the $7.75 for the suction pipe. Workmen's surnames read Kennedy, Maxwell, Corkette[?], Chambers, Cronin, Roundtree[?], Moran, McGraw and McGraw jr., Miscally, Dempsey, Sullivan, Crowley, Murphy and Serant[?]; "Corkette", "Roundtree" and "Serant" are the least certain. The checking officer's signature under "Correct" reads "J. M. Jordan" but could be Gordon.
Image 52 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 165, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $104.97, paid 28 December 1861
A voucher jacket on Form No. 22, opened flat; the "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is struck across the lower panel, and on the left-hand panel someone has drawn a pencil sketch of a wheel — concentric circles with a hub and radiating lines — which the film records but which carries no lettering.
No. 22.
—— • ◆ • ——
No 165 . ABSTRACT B........ 4 . QR. 1861 .
—— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller
$ 104 ⁹⁷/₁₀₀
Paid 28 of December 1861 .
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
[left panel, in pencil: a freehand drawing of a wheel — hub,
concentric rims and radiating spokes; no lettering]
Checks: a single sum, $104.97, with nothing to foot.
Flagged: nothing doubtful in the writing. The pencil wheel drawing is undated and unsigned and is described, not transcribed, since it carries no words or figures.
Image 53 — Voucher on Form No. 22 for the Str. Ida, $104.97, receipted 23 December 1861
The printed Confederate voucher answering to jacket No. 165 at Image 52, docketed "for 'Str Ida'" above the printed "To" — rudder ironwork, grate bars and blacksmith time on the steamer, certified at the foot of the column by the vessel's captain as well as by the quartermaster.
[for "Str Ida"]
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
June 3 | 1 Strap for Rudder Gear 3 ⁰⁰
5 | 2 bolts " Fire Door 2 ⁰⁰ 5 | 00
| ¼ day Blount @ 3⁵⁰ ⁸⁷
| 110 tt of Iron (chisel) @ 10ᶜ 11 ⁰⁰
| 1 tt of wrought Nails ¹⁰
| Drayage of Material to boat ²⁵
| 4 Rings & 4 Washers 1 ⁵⁰
| 2 tt of Iron 12½ ⁵⁰ 14 | 22
6 | ½ day Blount 1⁷⁵ & Billy 1⁰⁰ 2 ⁷⁵
14 | 1 Rudder Iron, Eyebolt & Link 5 ⁰⁰
18 | Repairing 1 Stay 1 ⁰⁰ 8 | 75
July 3 | 18 Screws 1 ⁰⁰
9 | Repairing 1 Rudder Yoke 2 ⁰⁰
16 | 1 New Rudder Yoke 15 ⁰⁰ 18 | 00
Sept 9 | 1 bolt for Rudder Iron ²⁵
Nov 1 | 24 Grate Bars 1160 @ 5ᶜ 58 ⁰⁰
| Drayage to boat ⁷⁵ 59 | 00
| $ 104 | 97
|
| The above Bill is Correct
| F. S. Cerecopulz[?]. Capt
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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 the
public service.
J[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received Savannah Dec 23 , 1861 , of Maj. J. S. Smith A.Q.M.
One hundred & four dollars and Ninety seven cents, in full of the
above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: ¼ day at $3.50 = .875, entered .87 ✔ (dropped fraction) · 110 lbs of iron at 10¢ = 11.00 ✔ · ½ day Blount 1.75 + Billy 1.00 = 2.75 ✔ · 1160 lbs of grate bars at 5¢ = 58.00 ✔. Group sums: 3.00 + 2.00 = 5.00 ✔ · .87 + 11.00 + .10 + .25 + 1.50 + .50 = 14.22 ✔ · 2.75 + 5.00 + 1.00 = 8.75 ✔ · 1.00 + 2.00 + 15.00 = 18.00 ✔ · .25 + 58.00 + .75 = 59.00 ✔. Footing: 5.00 + 14.22 + 8.75 + 18.00 + 59.00 = 104.97 ✔ exact; the receipt writes it out as one hundred and four dollars and ninety-seven cents ✔ and it matches the $104.97 endorsed on jacket No. 165 at Image 52 ✔.
Flagged: the jacket at Image 52 endorses this as paid 28 December 1861 while the receipt here is dated Dec 23 — both are transcribed as they stand. The "2 tt of Iron 12½" line extends at 50¢, where two pounds at twelve and a half cents would be 25¢; the 50¢ is what the group requires and it is left as written rather than reconciled. The captain's surname under "The above Bill is Correct" cannot be read with confidence — the strokes give something like "Cerecopulz" and it is not any of the officers already met in this file. "Billy", charged at a day rate beside Blount, is written exactly so.
Image 54 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 164, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $228.93, paid 28 December 1861
A very lightly inked voucher jacket on Form No. 22, filmed flat; the "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval fills the lower panel and the voucher folded inside shows through in reverse on the right, the words "The Confederate States", "To" and "Quartermaster" legible backwards.
No. 22.
—— • ◆ • ——
No 164 . ABSTRACT B........ 4 . QR. 1861 .
—— • ◆ • ——
A. N. Miller
$ 228 ⁹³/₁₀₀
Paid 28[?] of December 1861 .
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: a single sum, $228.93, with nothing to foot.
Flagged: the day of payment is written with a single-looped second figure and will read 28 or 26; the other jackets in this group are all 28 December, and it is recorded as 28[?].
Image 55 — Two documents on one frame: Ordnance wharfage voucher, $228.93, receipted 28 Dec. 1861; and Engineer jacket No. 27, $86.00
Two papers share the frame. The upper is the printed voucher answering to jacket No. 164 at Image 54 — a single summary line for wharfage on ordnance stores, the detail referred to a sub-voucher that the auditor notes was never received, and certified by the ordnance officer as well as by the quartermaster. The lower is a separate C. S. Engineer Department jacket for a different, later voucher.
[UPPER SHEET]
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DATE. | Ordnance Department | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Dec 18ᵗʰ 1861 | To Wharfage on Ordnance Stores ⎫
| as per Sub Voucher ⎭ $ 228 | 93
| sub voucher not rec'd
| [initials, illegible]
I certify, that the above account is correct
& just; that the services were rendered
as stated & that they were necessary for
the public service
Rich[d] M. Cuyler
Cap[t] Arty & Ordnance
$ 228 | 93
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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[?]. S. Smith
Maj & Ass't[?] Quartermaster.
Received Savannah Decr 28 , 1861 , of Maj J. S. Smith A.Q.M.
Two hundred & twenty eight dollars and Ninety three cents, in full of
the above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
[LOWER SHEET — a C. S. Engineer Department voucher jacket]
C. S. Engineer Dep[t]
Savannah Geo.
№ 27
2ⁿᵈ Quarter 1862
$ 86 ⁰⁰/₁₀₀
A. N. Miller.
✓
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
Checks: one summary line, $228.93, repeated as the footing ✔; the receipt writes it out as two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents ✔ and it matches the sum endorsed on jacket No. 164 at Image 54 ✔. The Engineer jacket below carries a single sum, $86.00.
Flagged: the detail behind the $228.93 is not in this file — the auditor's note "sub voucher not rec'd" says the itemised sub-voucher never came in, and the initials under that note cannot be read. The ordnance officer's signature here is clear and settles the doubtful reading at Image 41: Rich[d] M. Cuyler, Capt. Arty. & Ordnance. The lower jacket (Engineer Department No. 27, 2nd Quarter 1862, $86.00) belongs to a different voucher from the one above it, and carries no payment date.
Image 56 — C. S. Navy Department bill for the Naval Battery, gun carriages and platforms, $86.18, receipted 13 May 1862
A Navy Department bill head, not a Form 22 — spikes, bolts, plates and blocks for the Naval Battery's gun carriages and platforms, certified by the navy carpenter and approved by the commandant, then endorsed across by the chief engineer explaining why the Navy would not pay it and the Engineer Department did. A long diagonal cancellation stroke is drawn across the whole face, and the number 441 stands in the upper right corner.
441
C. S. Navy Department.
For Naval Battery
To A. N. Miller Dr.
For Gun Carriages & Platforms.
Feb 21ˢᵗ | To 6 Plates ... 50 tt 3ᶜ[?] 8 Blocks 20 tt 2ᶜ[?] 5 |
| " 12 Bolts ... 6ᵈ 7 tt 34 Wood Screws 3ᵈ ¹/₄[?] 1 | 20
| " 50 " 181 tt 12½ 22 | 63
| " 50 Spks 181 tt 12½ 22 | 63
| " 4 " 8 tt 20ᶜ 1 | 60
28 | " 75 Bolts 265 tt 12½ᶜ 33 | 12
Engineer Department
Savannah May 13. 62
The above bill was made by the Navy department
which received instructions from the Bureau not
to disburse on account of the battery. (The articles
were used in the Gun Carriages & platforms)
had to apply to this dept for payment. Wm. H. Echols.
Capt & Chf Eng.
✓ 86 | 18
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I certify the above Bill to be correct in all its particulars,
Robert M. Bain
Carpenter
Approved for —— Eighty Six ———— Dollars, 18 Cents,
~~ordered to be paid by~~ ~~C. S. Navy.~~
Thos. W. Brent
Commandant
Received Savannah Geo May 13 1862 , from Capt W H Echols.
~~Paymaster C. S. N.~~ Capt & Chf Eng. the sum of
Eighty Six & 18/100 Dollars, ~~Cents~~ , in full of the above Bill,
and have signed duplicate receipts.
A. N. Miller
Checks: 181 lbs at 12½¢ = 22.625, entered 22.63 ✔ (twice) · 8 lbs at 20¢ = 1.60 ✔ · 265 lbs at 12½¢ = 33.125, entered 33.12 ✔ (dropped fraction). Footing: 5.00 + 1.20 + 22.63 + 22.63 + 1.60 + 33.12 = 86.18 ✔ exact, and the approval and the receipt both write it out as eighty-six dollars and eighteen cents ✔.
Flagged: the rates on the first two lines are the least legible figures on the sheet — as read, 50 lbs at 3¢ and 20 lbs at 2¢ come to $1.90, not the $5.00 entered, so at least one of those rates is being misread; the entered $5.00 is what the column requires and it is left standing. The Engineer jacket at the foot of Image 55 (C. S. Engineer Dept., Savannah, No. 27, 2nd Quarter 1862) endorses a sum read there as "$86 ⁰⁰" — on the evidence of this bill that fraction is almost certainly ¹⁸, and the two papers belong together. Note that the paying officer's title on the receipt line has been altered: the printed "Paymaster C. S. N." is struck out and "Capt & Chf Eng." written above it.
Image 57 — Voucher jacket, No. 32, Third Qr. 1862, "Ordnance Service in all its Branches," $5,485.78, paid 30 August 1862
An ordnance voucher jacket of a different printed pattern from the Form 22 jackets — no form number at the head, and a printed line naming the appropriation instead of an abstract letter. It is filmed flat, very faintly inked; the "RECORD DIVISION · WAR DEPARTMENT" oval fills the lower panel, and a large looped pencil mark stands below it.
No. 32[?] .................. Third .. QR., 186 2
.... 5485 .. Dollars, 78 .... Cents.
Paid August 30 th ..... 1862
A. N. Miller .................................
Ordnance Service in all
its Branches
─────────────────────────────────────────
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION * WAR DEPARTMENT *
[large pencil loop, "OO" or "88"]
Checks: a single sum, $5,485.78 — the largest in this run — with nothing on the jacket to foot.
Flagged: the voucher number is written very lightly and will read 32 or 34; marked 32[?]. The pencil mark at the foot of the panel is two joined loops and is not certainly a number; it is described rather than transcribed. No voucher answering to this jacket appears in Images 39–57.
Image 58 — Ordnance account on printed C.S.A. bill-head, $5,485.78, Savannah, 30 August 1862
A wide printed "Confederate States of America, To ________ Dr." bill-head, ruled for Dollars/Cts twice over and a REMARKS column, filled in for a delivery of ordnance projectiles, mortars and beds; the certificate and the receipt are both completed at the foot. Each money entry carries a small auditor's check-mark in the margin to its right.
Confederate States of America,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
186 2. DOLLARS. CTS. DOLLARS. CTS. REMARKS.
June 30 16. 42 Pounder Grape 3 00 48 00
" 99. 32 " " 2 50 247 50
" 60. 32 " Cannister 2 50 150 00
" 50. 8 inch Rifle Shell Brass)
" Percussion Fuse }11 00 550 00
" 3. 10 in Mortar & Beds 12 00 3600 00
" 185. 10 " Mortar Shell 16,187 lbs 5 1/2 890 28
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5485 78
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just, amounting to Five Thousand four hundred
and eighty five Dollars and Seventy Eight Cents
and that the property has been received and accounted for.
A. F. Cunningham 1st Lt Arty & Ord[?]
RECEIVED Savannah August 30th 186 2.
from Lt A F Cunningham Five Thousand four hundred and eighty five Dollars,
and seventy eight Cents, in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
Checks: 16 × $3.00 = $48.00 ✔ · 99 × $2.50 = $247.50 ✔ · 60 × $2.50 = $150.00 ✔ · 50 × $11.00 = $550.00 ✔ · 3 × $1,200.00 = $3,600.00 ✔ (the rate is entered "12 00" in the dollars-and-cents columns but is plainly $1,200 apiece — the extension proves it) · 16,187 lbs @ 5½c = $890.285, carried as $890.28 ✔. Footing: 48.00 + 247.50 + 150.00 + 550.00 + 3,600.00 + 890.28 = $5,485.78 ✔ exact, and it agrees with the written sum in both the certificate and the receipt.
Flagged: the office written after the certifying signature is written at speed; read alone it might be almost anything, but the same officer signs image 72 in a clearer hand as "Lt Arty & Ord", and the letters here match that, so it is given as 1st Lt Arty & Ord[?] with the qualification noted. The quantity on the last line, 185 mortar shell, is not itself priced — the charge is made on the aggregate weight of 16,187 lbs. The "12 00" rate for mortars and beds is written in the cents column rather than as $1,200.00; the figure is not altered here.
Image 59 — Voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, Abstract B, 4th Qr. 1861, $205.92, paid 15 October 1861
The landscape voucher jacket — a folded blue-grey sheet endorsed in the middle panel, with the printed form number at the head and the War Department's oval "RECORD DIVISION" stamp struck near the foot. The scan is heavily creased along the folds.
No. 22.
. . .
No. 26[?] ABSTRACT B. 4 QR. 186 1 .
. . .
A. N. Miller
$ 205. 92
Paid 15 of October 1861.
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVIS[ION] ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: the jacket carries a single figure, $205.92, and no column to foot.
Flagged: "No. 22." at the head is the PRINTED FORM number (the miscellaneous-disbursement voucher), not this voucher's number. The voucher's own number, written in the blank before "ABSTRACT B", is a heavily blotted two-figure numeral read as 26 but not certain — it could be 24 or 21; recorded 26[?]. Most of the oval stamp is too faint to read beyond "RECORD DIVIS[ION]" and "WAR DEPARTMENT". Note that this jacket is dated 1861 and stands next to an 1862 ordnance account on image 58 — the images are not in date order.
Image 60 — Voucher on Form No. 22, wharfage, crane hire and timber, $205.92, receipted 15 October 1861
The voucher belonging to the jacket on image 59: a printed "No. 22.—(VOUCHER.) / The Confederate States. To ______ Dr." sheet, ruled with a DATE column, a wide body, and Dollars/Cents columns, with two certificates and Miller's receipt at the foot. The account is for wharfage and use of Miller's crane in landing guns and carriages, and for timber.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CENTS.
May 11 Wharfage & use of Crain on 1. 8 in Gun 12 00
" " " " " 1 42d " 8 50 20 50
16 " " " " " 2 " " 17 00
29 " " " " " 5 8 in " 60 00 77 00
Aug 16 " " " " " 4. 32d " & Carrgs 40 00
" " " " " 3 42d " 25 50 65 50
4 pcs Timber 946 feet "Tybee"
4 " " 1200 " 2146 ft @ 2c "Green Island" 42 92
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$205 92
I certify that the within
written account is correct.
Capt. W. G. Gwin[?]
Corps of Artillery
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.
S. J. Smith[?]
Major & Act[in]g[?] Quartermaster.
Received October 15 , 186 1 , of Major S. J. Smith[?]
Two hundred & five dollars and Ninety two cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: the money column is kept as two running subtotals and a timber line. $12.00 + $8.50 = $20.50 ✔ · $17.00 + $60.00 = $77.00 ✔ · $40.00 + $25.50 = $65.50 ✔ · timber: 946 ft + 1,200 ft = 2,146 ft, and 2,146 × 2c = $42.92 ✔ exact. Footing: 20.50 + 77.00 + 65.50 + 42.92 = $205.92 ✔ exact, and it agrees with the jacket on image 59 and with the written receipt.
Flagged: the certifying captain's surname is a rapid signature; the initials read "W. G." and the surname resembles "Gwin" or "Gwen" with a macron over the final letter — recorded Gwin[?]. The quartermaster's initials likewise read "S. J." but could be "J. S."; recorded S. J. Smith[?]. The word filling the blank before the printed "Quartermaster" is abbreviated and read as "Act[in]g". "Crain" is the clerk's spelling of crane and is left as written. Place names on the sheet: "Tybee" and "Green Island", both written in quotation marks by the clerk.
Image 61 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 87, A. N. Miller, 3rd November 1863, $60
A plain blue ruled voucher jacket, endorsed in the left-hand panel only; the printed words "VOUCHER No." are followed by the number written in ink. An examiner's tick is entered below the sum, and the oval "RECORD DIVISION — WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp is struck at the lower left. The right half of the sheet is blank.
VOUCHER No. 87
.
A N Miller
3rd November 1863
$60 —
[tick]
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVIS[ION] ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: a single sum, $60, with no column to foot.
Flagged: nothing doubtful in the endorsement. Faint script showing at the extreme left edge is bleed-through from the other face of the folded sheet, not writing on this side; the inner ring of the Record Division stamp is too light to read. Unlike image 59, this jacket names no abstract or quarter.
Image 62 — Engineer voucher, eye bolts and blocks for rigging a derrick on Str Habersham, $60.00, Savannah, 3 November 1863
The voucher that belongs with the jacket on image 61: a printed "The Confederate States, To ______ Dr." sheet ruled DATE / DESIGNATION / APPLICATION / COST, with the Corps of Engineers receipt printed at the foot and "(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)" below it. A pencil endorsement runs across the sheet above the receipt line.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DESIGNATION. APPLICATION. COST.
DOLLS. CTS.
June 15 2 Large Eye bolts &c "[struck through]" 30 x
2 Pair Blocks &c Rigging Derrick 30 x
on Str Habersham $60 00 x
Employed by Eng Depmt
I Certify that the above account is correct and just: the articles to be (or have been) accounted for in my
Property Return for 4 th Quarter of 1863 John McCrady
Capt & Chief Eng[r]
Correct Thos. A. [C?] Evans [in pencil] State of Geo[rgia]
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, this 3rd day of
November 1863 , from Capt J McCrady Corps of Engineer's
C. S. Army, Sixty dollars and
cents, in full of the above account.
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
A. N. Miller
Checks: $30 + $30 = $60.00 ✔ exact, and it agrees with the $60 on the jacket (image 61) and with "Sixty dollars" written into the receipt. The cents blank in the receipt is left empty, consistent with a whole-dollar sum.
Flagged: the APPLICATION entry on the first line was written in quotation marks and then cancelled with a heavy zigzag; what survives beneath appears to repeat "Str Habersham", but it cannot be read with confidence and is given as struck through. The pencil endorsement reads "Correct" followed by a name given as Thos. A. C. Evans — the middle initial is either C or E and the surname, though clear enough as Evans, is written faintly. The three small "x" marks in the cost column are the auditor's ticks. Vessel named: Str Habersham. Officers named: Capt. John McCrady, Chief Engineer, State of Georgia (who also signs the receipt line as Capt. J. McCrady, Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army).
Image 63 — Voucher jacket, C. S. Engineer Department, Voucher No. 162, 3 December 1863, $2,054.25
A blue ruled voucher jacket with the department name and "Voucher No." printed at the head of the right-hand panel and the rest written in. An examiner's tick sits below the sum and the oval "RECORD DIVISION — WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp is struck across the lower part of the panel.
C. S. Engineer Department.
Voucher No. 162
A N Miller
3 December 1863
$2,054. 25
[tick]
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: a single sum, $2,054.25, with no column to foot.
Flagged: nothing doubtful in the endorsement itself. Faint script visible down the left half and the right edge of the sheet is show-through from the folded leaves behind, not writing on this face; the inner line of the Record Division stamp is illegible.
Image 64 — Engineer voucher, railroad frogs and switches for the Military Road, $2,054.25, Savannah, 3 December 1863
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 162 (image 63): the same printed "The Confederate States, To ______ Dr." form ruled DATE / DESIGNATION / APPLICATION, with the Corps of Engineers receipt printed at the foot. The work is railroad track ironwork — frogs, switch stands and a switch — made for the Military Road.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DESIGNATION. APPLICATION.
Dec r 3 3 Frogs. (finished) Military Road $1214 00 x
3 Switch Stands and }
1 Switch (finished) } do do 840 25 x
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$2054 25 x
I certify that the above account is correct and just, the articles to be (or have been) accounted for in my property
return for the 4 th quarter of 1863 John McCrady
Capt & Chief Eng[r]
Received at Savannah, Georgia, this 3rd [Sta]te of Geo[rgia]
day of December 186 3
from Capt John McCrady Corps of Engineers
C. S. Army, Two Thousand & fifty four Dollars and
Twenty five cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: $1,214.00 + $840.25 = $2,054.25 ✔ exact. It agrees with the jacket on image 63 and with the written receipt, "Two Thousand & fifty four Dollars and Twenty five cents".
Flagged: no quantities are priced individually — the two lines are lump charges, so no extension can be proved beyond the footing. The certifying officer's title, written small and running off toward the right edge, is the same "Capt & Chief Eng[r] / State of Geo[rgia]" as on image 62 and the leading letters of "State" are lost in the fold. Work named: Military Road (railroad frogs, switch stands and a switch). Officer named: Capt. John McCrady, Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army — Chief Engineer, State of Georgia.
Image 65 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 163, A. N. Miller, 3rd December 1863, $66
A blue ruled voucher jacket of the same pattern as image 63 but without the "C. S. Engineer Department" heading printed above; endorsed in the right-hand panel, ticked below the sum, and struck with the oval "RECORD DIVISION — WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp. The left-hand panel shows heavy mirror-image bleed-through from the voucher folded inside it.
Voucher No. 163
A N Miller
3rd December 1863
$66. ~
[tick]
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISI[ON] ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: a single sum, $66, with no column to foot.
Flagged: the script filling the left half of the sheet is reversed offset — ink transferred from the enclosed voucher — and is not transcribed. The centre of the Record Division stamp is illegible.
Image 66 — Engineer Department voucher, one day's shop work on switch for the Military Road, $66.00, Savannah, 3 December 1863
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 163 (image 65): a printed "The Confederate States Engineer Department, To ______ Dr." sheet, this one a services voucher — a single day's charge for finishers, drill presses and helpers working on the switch made for the Military Road.
The Confederate States Engineer Department,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Dec r 3 1 day 2 Finishers on Switch for Military Road 18 x
1 " 4 Drill Presses " " " " " 32 x
1 " 4 Helpers " " " " " 16 x
------
$66 00 x
I certify that the above account is correct and just, that the services were rendered as stated, and that they were
necessary for the public service. John McCrady, Capt & Chief Eng
State of Geo
Received at Savannah, Georgia, this 3rd day of December 186 3
from Capt J McCrady Corps of Engineers
C. S. Army, = Sixty six Dolls Dollars and
cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.]
A. N. Miller
Checks: $18 + $32 + $16 = $66.00 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket (image 65) and with "Sixty six Dolls" in the receipt. Taken per head the day rates work out at $9 a finisher, $8 a drill press and $4 a helper, but the sheet does not state rates and none is claimed here.
Flagged: the cents blank in the receipt is left empty. Nothing on the sheet is doubtful; "Drill Presses" is clear on close reading. Work named: Military Road switch. Officer named: Capt. John McCrady, Chief Engineer, State of Georgia / Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army.
Image 67 — Voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, Abstract B, Third Qr., $68.68, paid 12 August 1862
The landscape jacket of a quartermaster's miscellaneous-disbursement voucher, endorsed across the middle panel. The oval "RECORD DIVISION — WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp is struck at an angle across the lower left. The sum is written in the old style, dollars over hundredths.
No. 22.
—
No. 70[?] ABSTRACT B. Third QR., 186 2.
. . .
A. N. Miller
$ 68 68/100
Paid 12th of Augst , 186 2.
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVI[SION] ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: a single sum, $68 68/100 = $68.68, with no column to foot; it agrees with the voucher on image 68.
Flagged: "No. 22." at the head is the PRINTED FORM number, not this voucher's number. The voucher's own number, written into the first blank, is read as 70 but the second figure is blotted where the stroke crosses the printed rule and could be 6; recorded 70[?]. The year figure is small and bold on both lines and was first read as a 4; on close inspection it is a 2 in both places, and the voucher inside (image 68) confirms 1862.
Image 68 — Voucher on Form No. 22, repairs to the engine of the Stmr "Resolute", $68.68, Savannah, 12 August 1862
The voucher belonging to the jacket on image 67: a printed "No. 22.—(VOUCHER.) / The Confederate States, To ______ Dr." sheet with a DATE column and Dollars/Cents columns. Only one line is used, high on the ruling, and the same sum is repeated at the foot of the money column against the certificate. The whole sheet is written in a pale, fine hand.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. CTS.
To repair on the
July 31 Engine of the Stmr "Resolute" 68 68
$ 68 68
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.
Jas F Stewart, Capt & A.Q.M.
Assistant Quartermaster C. S. Army.
RECEIVED, Savannah 12th Augt 186 2 , of Capt James F Stewart
Quartermaster C. S. Army, Sixty Eight Dollars, and
Sixty Eight Cents, in full of the above account.
(Signed Duplicates.)
A. N. Miller
Checks: a single charge, $68.68, repeated as the footing — 68.68 = 68.68 ✔ exact, and it agrees with the jacket (image 67) and with "Sixty Eight Dollars, and Sixty Eight Cents" in the receipt. No quantity or rate is given, so there is no extension to prove.
Flagged: the sum on the jacket, written as dollars over hundredths, was at first sight "69/100"; enlarged, both figures are 6 and 8, so $68.68 stands throughout. The date word between "12th" and the printed "186" is a rapid "Augt" and is read from the jacket's fuller "Augst". Vessel named: Stmr "Resolute" (repairs to her engine). Officer named: Capt. James F. Stewart, Assistant Quartermaster, C. S. Army — he both certifies and pays.
Image 69 — Archivist's cross-reference slip, "Voucher with V 2. Vessel papers"
Not a Confederate document at all but a tall narrow ruled slip written by the War Department clerks who arranged the captured records: it names the file and points the reader to a related series. The full oval "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES. WAR DEPARTMENT." stamp — the only fully legible impression of it in this range — is struck across the middle.
A. N. Miller.
Voucher with[?] V 2. Vessel papers
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION,
REBEL ARCHIVES.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Ga.
Checks: no figures on the slip — no arithmetic to prove.
Flagged: the word between "Voucher" and "V 2." is written with a crossed double letter and reads "witte"; the sense is plainly "with", so it is given as with[?]. The large flourished "Ga." at the foot appears to be the tail of a longer endorsement — probably a place line such as Savannah, Ga. — whose beginning does not appear on this face of the sheet. This is a modern (post-war) archival slip, not a paper of Miller's business.
Image 70 — Archivist's cross-reference slip, "Voucher with R 9. Vessel papers"
A second slip of exactly the same kind as image 69, in the same clerk's hand and on the same ruled paper, pointing to a different item in the Vessel Papers. The oval "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES. WAR DEPARTMENT." stamp is struck cleanly and reads in full.
A. N. Miller.
Voucher with[?] R 9. Vessel papers.
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION,
REBEL ARCHIVES.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Ga.
Checks: no figures on the slip — no arithmetic to prove.
Flagged: as on image 69, the word given as with[?] is written "witte" with a crossed double letter. The series designation is clear: capital R, then the figure 9. The flourished "Ga." at the foot is again the tail of an endorsement whose beginning is not on this face.
Image 71 — Voucher jacket, No. 21, Second Qr. 1862, $106.49, paid 30 June 1862, "Ordnance Service in all its branches"
A wholly manuscript jacket — no printing at all — endorsed down the centre panel of a folded sheet. The oval "RECORD DIVISION … WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp is struck faintly below, and a large flourished filing paraph is drawn near the foot.
No. 21 Second Qr. 1862
106 Dollars 49 cents
Paid June 30th 1862
A. N. Miller
Ordnance Service[?] in all its branches
[oval stamp:] RECORD DIVISION, ... WAR DEPARTMENT
[flourished paraph]
Checks: a single sum, 106 dollars 49 cents, written in words and figures with no column to foot.
Flagged: the second word of the last line — "Ordnance ______ in all its branches" — is written at speed and reads most nearly as "Service"; it is given as Service[?]. The heavy pen stroke lying across the middle of the Record Division stamp is later cancellation, not part of the endorsement. This jacket names a quarter and a voucher number but no abstract letter, unlike image 59 and image 67.
Image 72 — Manuscript ordnance account, Bay Battery and hot-shot furnace work, $106.49, Savannah, 30 June 1862
The account belonging to the jacket on image 71: a wholly manuscript bill on plain ruled paper — no printed form — headed in the same words as the printed bill-heads. Pencil workings are left in the right-hand margin where the clerk proved two of the extensions.
Confederate States of America.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
1862 Dolls cts Dolls cts Remarks
June 1st Two props. for 8 in Columbiad }
" Carrge. (Bay Battery) 4.20} x 8 40
" 11 - 10 in Mortar Shell 962 1/2 lb x 52 94
" 2 Tinis[?] in Hot shot furnace door x 2 00
" " 25 lb Sheet Iron @ 20 cts x 5 00
" 6 2 props for 8 in Columbiad Car-}
" " riage, (Bay Battery) 4.70 } x 9 40
" " 2 days work on props @ $3.00 x 6 00
" 14 2 doors for Hot shot oven. 69 lb @ 25cts x 17 25
" " 1/2 day of two hands on same. @ $11.— x 5 50
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a.c 106 49
[pencil, right margin:] 962 1/2 69
11 25
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962 345
2 138
10 5 87 1725
I certify that the above account is correct & just, amounting to One
hundred and six 49/100 Dollars, and that the property has been received
and accounted for.
A. F. Cunningham
Lt Arty & Ord
Received Savannah June 30th 1862 of Lt
A. F. Cunningham One Hundred and six 49/100 Dol-
lars in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
Checks: every extension proves. 2 props @ $4.20 = $8.40 ✔ · 962½ lb mortar shell @ 5½c = $52.9375, carried as $52.94 ✔ (and the pencil margin shows the clerk's own working, 962½ × 11 = 10,587½, halved) · 25 lb sheet iron @ 20c = $5.00 ✔ · 2 props @ $4.70 = $9.40 ✔ · 2 days @ $3.00 = $6.00 ✔ · 69 lb @ 25c = $17.25 ✔ (the pencil margin works it as 345 + 138 = 1725) · ½ day of two hands @ $11.00 = $5.50 ✔. Footing: 8.40 + 52.94 + 2.00 + 5.00 + 9.40 + 6.00 + 17.25 + 5.50 = $106.49 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket (image 71) and with "One hundred and six 49/100 Dollars" written twice below.
Flagged: the noun in "2 ______ in Hot shot furnace door" is written at speed and cannot be read with confidence — the letters give something like "Tinis" or "Tims"; recorded Tinis[?]. The mortar-shell line carries no written rate; the rate of 5½ cents a pound is what the extension and the pencil margin both work out to, and is not supplied from anywhere else. Battery named: Bay Battery (props for an 8-inch Columbiad carriage). Works named: hot shot furnace / hot shot oven. Officer named: Lt. A. F. Cunningham, Lt Arty & Ord — the same officer who certifies and pays image 58.
Image 73 — Voucher jacket, C. S. Engineer's Department, No. 213, paid 24 September 1863, $73
The outer face of a folded jacket, endorsed in the centre panel below a printed department heading. The paper is thin and the voucher folded inside it shows through strongly on both side panels — enough that its printed heading and the printed certificate can be made out, running sideways. An examiner's tick is entered below the endorsement and the Record Division stamp is struck at the lower left of the panel.
C. S. Engineer's Department.
. . . .
No. 213
Paid 24 Sept 186 3 .
$ 73. ~
A N Miller
[tick]
[oval stamp:] RECORD [DIVISION] ... [WAR] DEPARTMEN[T]
Checks: a single sum, $73, with no column to foot.
Flagged: everything legible on the side panels is show-through from the voucher enclosed, not writing on this face, and is therefore not transcribed as text of this sheet; what can be made out of it is the printed heading "The Confederate States Engineer Department, Savannah, Georgia.", the form number "No. 12.", and the printed certificate and Savannah receipt clauses. Only the outer half of the Record Division stamp reads.
Image 74 — Voucher on Form No. 12, machinists' work on the chartered steamers "Chatham" and "Lamar", $73.00, Savannah, 24 September 1863
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 213 (image 73): a printed "No. 12. / The Confederate States, Engineer Department, Savannah, Georgia, To ______ Dr." sheet, filled in a large clear hand. It charges machinists' and assistants' time and their subsistence while the two chartered steamers were fitting out on the Altamaha, and the extensions are grouped into two subtotals.
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer Department, Savannah, Georgia,
To A N Miller Dr.
Date of Purchase. Dollars. Cts.
For repairs on Chartered Stmrs
"Chatham & Lamar" which were
1863 being fitted out on the Altamaha River.
July 1 1/2 days work of 1 Machinist on the
Stmr "Chatham" @ $6. pr day $9.00
1 & 1/2 days of Asst to Machinist $3 " 4,50
Subsistance of do 1 & 1/2 days 5.00 18 50
4 days of 1 Machinist on the
Stmr "Lamar" @ $6. - $24.00
4 days of 1 asst to do @ $3. 12.00
Subsistance of 2 Men as above
4 days at Doctortown - 18,50 54 50
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Dolls $73 00
I certify that the above account is correct and just. that the services were rendered as
stated & that they were necessary for the public Service. N. B. Clinch 1st Lieut. P.A.C.S.
Late in charge Cotton clad boats on Altamaha
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, on the 24 of September 1863
of Capt J McCrady Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army,
= Seventy three dollars and cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed in duplicate.)
A N Miller
Checks: first group — 1½ days machinist @ $6 = $9.00 ✔ · 1½ days assistant @ $3 = $4.50 ✔ · subsistence $5.00 (no rate given) — 9.00 + 4.50 + 5.00 = $18.50 ✔. Second group — 4 days machinist @ $6 = $24.00 ✔ · 4 days assistant @ $3 = $12.00 ✔ · subsistence of 2 men 4 days at Doctortown, $18.50 (no rate given) — 24.00 + 12.00 + 18.50 = $54.50 ✔. Footing: 18.50 + 54.50 = $73.00 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket (image 73) and with "Seventy three dollars" in the receipt.
Flagged: the quantity on the second and third lines is written "1 & 1/2 days", the ampersand looking at first glance like an 8; the extensions ($4.50 at $3 a day) settle it as one and a half days, and nothing is altered. The two subsistence charges carry no rate, so only the group subtotals can be proved for them. Vessels named: chartered Stmr "Chatham" and Stmr "Lamar" — described in the certificate as cotton clad boats on the Altamaha. Places named: Altamaha River and Doctortown. Officers named: 1st Lieut. N. B. Clinch, P.A.C.S., late in charge cotton clad boats on Altamaha, and Capt. J. McCrady, Corps of Engineers, C. S. Army, who pays.
Image 75 — Voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, No. 46, Abstract B, First Qr. 1864, $811.85, paid 22 February 1864
The landscape jacket of the quartermaster's voucher that follows. The paper is thin and the long account folded inside it shows through across the whole sheet, so the endorsement has to be picked out from a screen of reversed writing. The oval "RECORD DIVISION — WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp reads backwards, having been struck on the other face.
No. 22.
—
No. 46 Abstract B. First Qr. 186 4
. . . .
A N Miller
$ 811 85
Paid 22 d of February , 186 4
[oval stamp, reversed:] RECORD DIVISION ... WAR DEPARTMENT
Checks: a single sum, $811.85, with no column to foot; it agrees with the footing and the written receipt on image 76.
Flagged: "No. 22." at the head is the PRINTED FORM number, not this voucher's number — the voucher's own number is 46. The dollars figure, read on the jacket alone, could be taken for 814; the voucher on image 76 foots to 811 85 and its receipt is written out as "Eight hundred and eleven Dollars, and eighty five Cents", so $811.85 is certain. Everything else visible on the sheet is show-through from the enclosure and is not transcribed.
Image 76 — Voucher on Form No. 22, services and materials on the Steamer Beauregard, $811.85, Savannah, 22 February 1864
The voucher belonging to jacket No. 46 (image 75): a printed "No. 22.—(VOUCHER.) / The Confederate States, To ______ Dr." sheet carrying the longest account in this range — sixteen lines of boiler-shop and machine work on one steamer, run from September 1863 to the end of January 1864 and settled in February. Several lines carry the component charges written small above the line, which are then added into the money column.
No. 22. (VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States,
To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. Steamer Beauregard DOLLARS. CTS.
1863 Services & materials rendered
Sept 31 8 3/4 days Boiler makers & helpers on boiler 33 75
14 lb Iron & rivets for Patches 7 00
10 lb borings & 14 bolts & nuts 19 00
1 bolt for cross head & turning do 3 50
Repairing Key wrench 2.50 1 bolt & socket 5.00 7 50
7/10 day turning bolt 3 00
Dec r 11th 1 " on grate bar pattern 7.20 & lumber .60 7 80
17 Grate bars 1626 lb @ 30 c 487 80
Jany 30th 1864 3 3/4 days boiler makers on Cylinder head 39 50
8 days helpers on do 4 00 32 00
3/10 " Blksmith & helpers on do 9 00
3 4/10 " Chipping[?] cylinder head & patches 68 00
51 lb Iron for patches @ 50 c 25 50
43 lb 1/2 - rivets for head @ 50 c 21 50
6 bolts for head 19 50
1 day turning & chasing bolts 27 50
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811 85
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.
Jas Stewart
Major [Assistant struck through] Quartermaster C. S. Army
RECEIVED, Savannah Febry 22 186 4 , of Major Jas. F. Stewart
Quartermaster C. S. Army, Eight hundred and eleven Dollars, and
eighty five Cents, in full of the above account.
(Signed Duplicates.)
A N Miller
Checks: where a rate is written, every extension proves. 17 grate bars, 1,626 lb @ 30c = $487.80 ✔ exact · 51 lb iron @ 50c = $25.50 ✔ · 43 lb rivets @ 50c = $21.50 ✔ · 8 days helpers @ $4.00 = $32.00 ✔ · the two composite lines add: $2.50 + $5.00 = $7.50 ✔ and $7.20 + $0.60 = $7.80 ✔. Footing: 33.75 + 7.00 + 19.00 + 3.50 + 7.50 + 3.00 + 7.80 + 487.80 + 39.50 + 32.00 + 9.00 + 68.00 + 25.50 + 21.50 + 19.50 + 27.50 = $811.85 ✔ exact, agreeing with the jacket (image 75) and with "Eight hundred and eleven Dollars, and eighty five Cents" in the receipt.
Flagged: the first date is written "Sept 31" — a day that does not exist. It is left exactly as the clerk wrote it and is not corrected. The verb in "3 4/10 [days] ______ cylinder head & patches" is not certainly read; the letters give something like "Chipping", and "Caulking" would suit the work as well — recorded Chipping[?], with no bearing on the arithmetic. On the rivet line the fraction stands apart from the weight ("43 lb 1/2 — rivets"), and the extension at 50c proves on 43 lb, so the ½ belongs to the description of the rivets, not to the weight; nothing is altered. Several day-work lines carry no rate and cannot be extended. The printed word "Assistant" in the certificate is struck through and "Major" written before "Quartermaster". Vessel named: Steamer Beauregard. Officer named: Major James F. Stewart, Quartermaster, C. S. Army — the same officer who signs image 68 as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster in 1862.
Image 77 — Voucher jacket on printed Form No. 22, A. N. Miller, $216.38, paid 25 July 186_
The endorsement panel of a folded voucher jacket, printed with the ruled blanks of Confederate Form No. 22 and filled in by two different hands; the oval "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" stamp of the post-war Federal custodians is struck across the lower left. The right-hand half of the sheet is the blank back of the fold, showing only bleed-through from the writing beneath.
NO. 22.
---- ** ----
No. 4[?] ......ABSTRACT B............QR. 186_
---- * ----
A. N. Miller
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$ 216 38/100
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Paid 25 of July 186_
As in a/c 3[?]
M R O[?]
Approved
By order Brig Gen Drayton[?]
J. S. [Thorton?] Jr
1st Lt & A.D.C.
Checks: one figure only — $216 38/100 — and no column to foot, so there is no arithmetic to prove on this sheet. It agrees with the footing of the voucher at image 78, which this jacket covers.
Flagged: four readings. (1) The number written in the "No. ____" blank is a "4" followed by a heavily blotted second character that is not formed like the plain "2" this hand writes in "216"; it could be a flourished 2 or a paraph, so I read it 4[?] rather than settle it. (2) The printed year reads 186 followed by the form's own ornamental blank — no year digit was ever written, on either the "QR. 186_" line or the "Paid ... 186_" line, so this jacket carries no year. (3) The two-line endorsement above "Approved" is a scrawl; As in a/c 3 and M R O are my best readings and both are doubtful. (4) The general's name after "By order Brig Gen" and the aide's signature are both compressed and blotted — Drayton[?] and J. S. [Thorton?] Jr, 1st Lt & A.D.C., are offered as readings, not identifications.
Image 78 — Voucher on Form No. 22, fire box, door, lugs and cold chisel, $216.38, receipted 25 July 1862
A printed Confederate Form No. 22 account and receipt, ruled in a dollars-and-cents column, filled out in one hand throughout with a second hand for the certifying and receipting signatures; the four charges are for machine and blacksmith work done in June 1862. This is the voucher covered by the jacket at image 77.
NO. 22.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CENTS.
1862 | | |
June 10 | One fire box &c for Retort[?] | 192 |
19 | Fitting door | 1 | 50
" | Forging lugs & chipping frame | 21 | 38
25 | 1 Cold Chisel | 1 | 50
| |----------|-------
| $ | 216 | 38
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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 the
public service.
Langdon Cheves
A. D. C.
~~Assistant Quartermaster~~
RECEIVED July 25th , 1862, of Maj E Willis QM
Two hundred & Sixteen dollars and Thirty Eight cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
[SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.]
Checks: 192.00 + 1.50 + 21.38 + 1.50 = 216.38 ✔ exact. The footing agrees with the receipt written out in words — "Two hundred & Sixteen dollars and Thirty Eight cents" — and with the $216 38/100 on the jacket at image 77.
Flagged: two readings. (1) The last word of the first charge, after "One fire box &c for", is a compressed word I read as Retort — the initial letter is looped like this hand's capital R and the ending is "-rt", but I cannot make it certain. (2) The printed title "Assistant Quartermaster" under the certifying signature is struck through with a pen line and "A. D. C." written above it, so Langdon Cheves certified as aide-de-camp, not as quartermaster; I have shown the strike-through with tildes. The paying officer reads "Maj E Willis QM" — the initial before "Willis" is a single flourished capital and the "QM" is an abbreviation without stops.
Image 79 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 18, Third Qr. 1863, A. N. Miller, $1,749.50, paid 18 July 1863
A landscape voucher jacket, filmed with the sheet lying on its side of the fold — three panels, the centre one carrying the printed endorsement blanks, the outer two blank but showing heavy mirror-image bleed-through of the writing on the inside. The "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped faintly across the lower centre, with a clerk's pen flourish inside it.
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No. 18 ......
----- **** -----
Third Qr., 186 3
---------------------------
A. N. Miller
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$ 1749 50
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Paid 18th of July 186 3
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Checks: a single figure, $1,749 50/100, with nothing on the jacket to foot against it; it agrees exactly with the footing of the voucher at image 80 and with the duplicate jacket at image 81.
Flagged: nothing unresolved. The superscript cents needed magnifying to settle — at ordinary size the pair reads as two ovals — but at 20x the first character shows the closed bowl, rising stem and flat top bar that this clerk gives a 5, matching the "50" in the voucher's own "6 50" line, so the jacket reads 50, not 00. Every blank on the endorsement is filled and legible. The bleed-through on the two outer panels is the reverse of the inside writing and is not transcribable from this side; the pen mark inside the archives stamp is a flourish, not letters I can resolve.
Image 80 — Voucher for three lathes, drill press, sand paper and boxes, $1,749.50, received at Macon, Ga., 18 July 1863
A printed Confederate disbursement voucher with a "REMARKS, showing Nature of Disbursement" column at the right (here left empty), made out for machine tools A. N. Miller sold into the Ordnance Corps and shipped from Savannah; the receipt line is printed specifically for the Macon arsenal and names its military storekeeper in type. Each of the first four lines is ticked off in the left margin with a check mark by the receiving officer.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CTS. | REMARKS, Showing
186 3 | | | | Nature of Disbursement.
July 1st | For | | |
| √ 1 36 inch Lathe Incomplete | 1000 | 00 |
| √ 1 24 " " ,, | 250 | 00 |
| √ 1 18 " " ,, | 250 | 00 |
| √ Drill Press | 150 | 00 |
| 3 Reams of Sand Paper @ $25 | 75 | 00 |
| 9 Packing Boxes | 18 | 00 |
| Drayage to R.Rd. Depot | 6 | 50 |
| | | |
| $ | 1749 | 50 √
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Approved for One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty nine Dollars,
Fifty Cents.
Rich'd M. Cuyler
Major Comm'd'g
RECEIVED AT MACON, GA., the 18th of July 186 3 ,
of RICHARD LAMBERT, M. S. K. Ordnance Corps, C. S. A., One Thousand
Seven Hundred and forty nine Dollars and Fifty Cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: 1000.00 + 250.00 + 250.00 + 150.00 + 75.00 + 18.00 + 6.50 = 1749.50 ✔ exact. The sand-paper line proves on its own rate: 3 reams @ $25 = $75.00 ✔ exact. The nine packing boxes at $18.00 work out to $2.00 apiece, though no rate is stated. The footing agrees with the approval and with the receipt, both written out in words as "One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty nine Dollars and Fifty Cents".
Flagged: one reading. The approving signature is compressed; I read Rich'd M. Cuyler, Major Comm'd'g — the surname is clear, the abbreviated Christian name less so. Both jackets covering this voucher (images 79 and 81) are endorsed $1,749 50/100, agreeing with the footing. The place of receipt, MACON, GA., and the storekeeper's name, RICHARD LAMBERT, M. S. K. Ordnance Corps, C. S. A., are both printed on the form, not written in.
Image 81 — Duplicate voucher jacket, Voucher No. 18, Third Qr. 1863, A. N. Miller, $1,749.50, paid 18 July 1863
The duplicate of the jacket at image 79 — the same landscape sheet, folded in three, the centre panel printed with the same endorsement blanks and filled in by the same hand with the same particulars, the voucher having been signed in duplicate. The "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped across the lower centre, more legibly here than on its twin, and faint mirror-image bleed-through shows on both outer panels.
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No. 18 ......
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Third Qr., 186 3
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A. N. Miller
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$ 1749 50
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Paid 18 of July 186 3
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Checks: the single figure, $1,749 50/100, matches the jacket at image 79 and the footing of the voucher at image 80 ✔.
Flagged: one small difference from the twin. This jacket writes the day of payment as plain "18", where image 79 writes "18th"; everything else on the two panels is identical. The superscript cents again needed magnifying — the first character is this clerk's 5, not a 0.
Image 82 — Duplicate voucher, three lathes, drill press, sand paper and boxes, $1,749.50, Macon, 18 July 1863
The duplicate copy of the voucher at image 80 — the same printed form, the same seven charges and the same signatures, written out afresh rather than pressed, so the wording differs in small particulars: no check marks in the left margin, a quantity "1" supplied before "Drill Press", and "3 Reams Sand Paper" without the "of". The sheet is chipped along the left edge below the ruled block.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
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DATE. | | DOLLARS. | CTS. | REMARKS, Showing
186 3 | | | | Nature of Disbursement.
July 1st | For | | |
| 1 36 inch Lathe Incomplete | 1000 | 00 |
| 1 24 " " " | 250 | 00 |
| 1 18 " " " | 250 | 00 |
| 1 Drill Press | 150 | 00 |
| 3 Reams Sand Paper @ $25 | 75 | 00 |
| 9 Packing Boxes | 18 | 00 |
| Drayage to R.Rd Depot | 6 | 50 |
| | | |
| $ | 1749 | 50 |
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Approved for One Thousand Seven Hundred & Forty Nine Dollars,
Fifty Cents.
Rich'd M. Cuyler
Major Comm'd'g
RECEIVED AT MACON, GA., the 18th of July 186 3 ,
of RICHARD LAMBERT, M. S. K. Ordnance Corps, C. S. A., One Thousand
Seven Hundred & Forty Nine Dollars and Fifty Cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: 1000.00 + 250.00 + 250.00 + 150.00 + 75.00 + 18.00 + 6.50 = 1749.50 ✔ exact, agreeing with image 80 and with both jackets. The sand-paper rate proves again: 3 @ $25 = $75.00 ✔ exact.
Flagged: nothing unread. The only differences from image 80 are in the clerk's wording — "& Forty Nine" here against "and forty nine" there, "R.Rd Depot" without the stop after Rd, and the missing tick marks — and the approving signature is the same compressed Rich'd M. Cuyler, Major Comm'd'g. Faint pencil or offset marks in the empty body of the column are stray, not entries.
Image 83 — Blank verso of a bill, used for pencil and ink computations (392¾ @ 18¢ = $70.69; 34½ @ 90¢ = $31.05)
The back of a sheet of faintly blue-ruled ledger paper, carrying no account and no signature of its own — only four scratch calculations in two media, ink for the heavy ones and pencil for the lighter, worked wherever there was room. The "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped at the upper left lying on its side, reading bottom-to-top, and "A. N. Miller" shows through at the foot in mirror image, bled from the signature on the face.
18 / 7070 / [blot]
9 54
4 [3/4] ----
------ 167
13 3/4 162
----
50
3 92 3/4 36
18 ----
---------- 14 /18
3136
392
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7056
13 16 Jan'y[?]
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7069
34 1/2
90
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3060
45
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3105
Checks: four sums, and they behave as follows. (1) 392 × 18 = 7,056 — the partials 3,136 and 3,92[0] are correct and add to 7,056 ✔ — but the clerk then adds only 13 for the fraction, where ¾ × 18 = 13.5, and carries the answer as 7,069. Taken strictly, 392.75 × 18 = 7,069.50, so the written 7,069 is a half-cent light; the figure is left as he wrote it. (2) 9 + 4¾ = 13¾ ✔ exact. (3) 34 × 90 = 3,060 and ½ × 90 = 45, and 3,060 + 45 = 3,105 ✔ exact — 34½ at 90 cents is $31.05. (4) The long division proves in reverse: 18 into 7,070 gives 392 with 14 over — 54, 167, 162, 50, 36, 14/18 are exactly the steps for that dividend ✔, and the 392 14/18 it yields is the same quantity the multiplication above rounds to 392¾.
Flagged: three readings. (1) The quotient of the long division is buried under a heavy ink blot and cannot be read directly; I have shown it as [blot] and recovered 392 only from the division's own working. (2) In the margin sum the second term is a "4" with a small superscript mark that I take for ¾ because 9 + 4¾ gives exactly the 13¾ written beneath; I have bracketed it. (3) The pencil note at the middle right reads 16 Jan'y to me but is faint and could be another day. Nothing on this side names a fort, a vessel or a piece of work — the figures are bare.
Image 84 — Docket side of the computation sheet, endorsed only "A. N. Miller"
The other face of the sheet at image 83 — the same blue-ruled ledger paper, chipped along the same edges. Nothing is written on this side but the name across the head; everything else visible is the ink of the calculations and the archives stamp on the reverse showing through the paper, reversed and turned end for end.
A. N. Miller
Checks: no figures were written on this side, so there is nothing to foot. The sums that appear through the paper are those already proved at image 83.
Flagged: nothing unread. All the numerals and the "RECORD DIVISION ... WAR DEPARTMENT" oval on this image are show-through from the verso and are not entries on this face; I have deliberately not re-transcribed them here, since reading a figure backwards through the sheet is no evidence of what it says. The endorsement itself is clear and complete.
Image 85 — Bill against the Macon Arsenal, iron and a whip saw, $739.51, Savannah, 20 March 1863
A landscape bill on plain blue-ruled paper, wholly manuscript with no printed form beneath it, headed with a brace tying "Confederate States" to "for Macon Arsenal" and closed with an order in a second hand directing the arsenal's storekeeper to pay it. Two ink blots have fallen across the lower left. The two charges are dated 1862 but the bill was rendered the following March.
Confederate States }
for Macon Arsenal }
To. A. N. Miller Dr
1862
Augt 30 11 [?]/2240 Tons Iron @ 65.00 719 | 51
Nov 14 1 Whip Saw 20 | $739 51
-----
E. E.[?] ----------
Savannah, March 20th 1863.
Cap'n Lambert will pay this bill —
Rich'd M. Cuyler
Major Comm'd'g
Checks: the footing proves — 719.51 + 20.00 = 739.51 ✔ exact. The iron line will not prove, because I cannot read the numerator of the tonnage fraction. Working the other way, $719.51 at $65.00 the ton is 11.0694 tons, that is 11 tons and about 155 lb of 2,240; whatever the clerk wrote, it should be a numerator near 155. I have not supplied that figure to the transcription and have not altered the extension.
Flagged: three readings. (1) The tonnage fraction over 2240 is written small and the scan is soft just there; enlarged to ten times it resolves into three or four numerals I cannot name, with an ink spot over the first. It is left [?]. (2) The abbreviation standing alone above the date is two capitals that I take for E. E. — Errors Excepted, the ordinary close of a merchant's bill — but they could as easily be read C. C. (3) "Cap'n Lambert" is the Richard Lambert, M. S. K. Ordnance Corps, named in print on the Macon vouchers at images 80 and 82; the order to pay is signed with the same compressed Rich'd M. Cuyler, Major Comm'd'g as those vouchers. The place named on this sheet is Savannah, and the works charged is the Macon Arsenal.
Image 86 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 214, A. N. Miller, $61, 24 September 1863
A folded jacket of blue-ruled paper, the endorsement written on the left-hand panel in a fine engrossing hand under the printed words "VOUCHER No."; the right-hand panel is blank. A large pen tick stands below the amount, and the "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped across the lower left corner.
VOUCHER No. 214.
24 Sept 1863
A N Miller
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$61
Checks: one figure, $61, written without cents and finished with a flourish rather than a fraction; there is no column here to foot against it.
Flagged: nothing unread. Note that 214 here is the voucher's own number, written into the blank after the printed "VOUCHER No." — not a form number. The date and the name are clear, and the tick below the sum is a clerk's check mark, not a figure.
Image 87 — Engineer voucher, bolts, chisels, rivets and sheet iron for steamers Chatham and Lamar, $61.00, Savannah, 24 September 1863
A printed landscape Engineer Department voucher ruled in four columns — DATE, DESIGNATION, APPLICATION, COST — so that every item is charged against the vessel or work it went to; this is the voucher covered by the jacket at image 86. A pen tick stands against each extension and against the footing. Two officers' certifications are written into the block below the account.
The Confederate States,
To A N Miller Dr.
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DATE. | DESIGNATION. | APPLICATION. | COST.
| | | DOLLS. | CTS.
1863 | | | |
July | 26, 3/4 inch bolts @ $1[?] | Stmr "Chatham" | 26 | 00 √
| 4, 1/2 " " @ 75c | Cotton Clad Stmrs. | 3 | 00 √
| | on the Altamaha River | |
| 2, Cold Chisels @ $7. | | 14 | 00 √
| 4, 3/4 inch Rivets @ 75c | Stmr "Lamar" | 3 | 00 √
| 30, lbs Sheet Iron @ 50c | as above . . . . . . | 15 | 00 √
| | Dolls | 61 | 00 √
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I Certify that the above account is correct and just: the articles to be (or have been)
accounted for in my Property Return for 3rd Quarter of 1863 Jno McCrady Capt
N. B. Clinch 1st Lieut P.A.C.S.
Late in charge cotton clad boats on Altamaha
RECEIVED at Savannah, Georgia, this 24 day of
September 1863, from Capt J. McCrady Corps of Engineer's
C. S. Army, Sixty one ———— dollars and ———— cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: every line proves on its own rate, and the footing proves. 26 bolts @ $1 = $26.00 ✔; 4 @ 75c = $3.00 ✔; 2 cold chisels @ $7 = $14.00 ✔; 4 rivets @ 75c = $3.00 ✔; 30 lbs sheet iron @ 50c = $15.00 ✔. Footing: 26.00 + 3.00 + 14.00 + 3.00 + 15.00 = 61.00 ✔ exact, and it agrees with "Sixty one" written out in the receipt and with the $61 on the jacket at image 86.
Flagged: two readings, and one caution. (1) The rate on the first line is written over itself and blotted; only a dollar sign and a "1" can be made out, so I have shown it @ $1[?]. The extension of $26.00 against 26 bolts confirms a rate of exactly one dollar, but I have not written the figure in as though it were legible. (2) The horizontal lines that appear to run through "Jno McCrady Capt" and through "Capt J. McCrady" are the printed fill-in rules of the form continuing across the sheet, not pen cancellations — they line up with the ruled blanks to the left. Nothing on this voucher is struck out. The vessels named are the Stmr "Chatham" and the Stmr "Lamar", with the cotton clad steamers on the Altamaha River; the officers are Capt. Jno. (J.) McCrady, Corps of Engineers and 1st Lieut. N. B. Clinch, P.A.C.S., late in charge cotton clad boats on Altamaha; the place of receipt is Savannah, Georgia.
Image 88 — Voucher jacket on printed Form No. 12, Voucher No. 29, Abstract A, First Qr. 1864, $70.00, paid 11 March 1864
A folded jacket in three panels, the centre one printed with the blanks of Confederate Form No. 12 — the purchase voucher — and filled in throughout in a light, even hand. The "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped upside down across the lower centre; the right-hand panel shows faint mirror bleed-through from the inside.
No. 12.
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No. 29 Abstract A. First Qr., 186 4
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A N Miller
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$ 70 00
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Paid 11th of March 186 4
Checks: the single figure, $70 00, has nothing on the jacket to foot against it.
Flagged: nothing unread. The "No. 12." at the head is the printed form number — Form 12 is the purchase voucher — and must not be mistaken for the voucher's own number, which is the 29 written into the "No. ____" blank beneath it against Abstract A for the first quarter of 1864.
Image 89 — Voucher on Form No. 12, 4 lbs of solder, $70.00, received at Savannah 11 March 1864
The purchase voucher belonging to the jacket at image 88: a printed Confederate Form No. 12 with a "Date of Purchase" column, ruled for a long account but carrying only two lines, both of solder bought on the same day. A pen brace gathers the two extensions into the footing. The word "Assistant" is struck out in print on both the certifying and the receipting lines.
No. 12.
The Confederate States,
To A N Miller Dr.
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Date of Purchase. | | | Dollars. | Cents.
1864 | | | |
March 10th 2 ℔s Spelter Solder $25. | | 50 | 00
2 ℔s Soft " $10. | | 20 | 00
| | -------------
| $ | 70 | 00
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I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just; the articles are to be
(or have been) accounted for on my property return for the First quarter
ending on the 31st day of March 186 4
Cha[s] S. Hardee[?] Major ~~Assistant~~ Quartermaster.
RECEIVED AT Savannah , the 11th of March 1864, of
Major Jas T Stewart ~~Assistant~~ Quartermaster Confederate States Army,
Seventy —————— Dollars and —————— cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
(Signed duplicates.)
Checks: both lines prove on their rates and the footing proves. 2 lbs spelter solder @ $25 = $50.00 ✔; 2 lbs soft solder @ $10 = $20.00 ✔; 50.00 + 20.00 = 70.00 ✔ exact, agreeing with "Seventy" written out in the receipt and with the $70 00 on the jacket at image 88.
Flagged: two readings. (1) The quantity abbreviation is the old contraction for pounds — written as a superscript that looks like "tbs" and stands for ℔s; I have set it as ℔s. (2) The certifying signature is written fast and low; I read Cha[s] S. Hardee and mark it doubtful — the rank "Major" after it is clear, and the printed word "Assistant" before "Quartermaster" is struck through on that line and again on the receipt line, so both officers signed as full Quartermaster, not Assistant Quartermaster. The receiving officer, Major Jas T Stewart, is clear. The place is Savannah.
Image 90 — Docket sheet, A. N. Miller, $10,250.00, 27 November 1862
A single leaf of faintly blue-ruled paper carrying nothing but a filing docket at the head and one two-letter mark lower down; there is no account, no certificate and no signature of an officer. The "RECORD DIVISION, REBEL ARCHIVES, WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped upside down in the left half.
A. N. Miller
$10.250 00 Nov 27th 1862
Ga[?]
Checks: one figure, $10,250.00, standing alone — the largest sum in this run of images — with no account on the sheet to prove it against.
Flagged: one reading and one absence. The two letters written in the middle of the sheet are a large looped capital and a small "a"; I read them Ga, most likely the state abbreviation used as a filing mark, but the capital could be taken for a J and I have marked it doubtful. The absence matters more: this docket gives a sum and a date and nothing else — no goods, no work, no officer, no place — and I have not supplied any.
Image 91 — Bill and covering letter to Capt. J. W. Mallett, C. S. Laboratory, Macon, engine and boilers, $10,250.00, Savannah 27 November 1862
One sheet doing two jobs: a manuscript bill at the head for a second-hand engine and boilers with the labour of taking them down, and beneath it, on the same page, A. N. Miller's own covering letter to the superintendent of the Confederate laboratory at Macon telling him where the machinery now is. The ink is pale and the hand rapid; the whole sheet is faint, and I have worked from contrast-enhanced enlargements. "Made out" is docketed in the lower left margin in a second hand.
C. S. for Macon Labratory
Capt J. W. Mallett Supt
To A. N. Miller Dr.
To 1 Second hand high Pressure Engine & Boilers $10,000.00
" Labor in taking down Machinery Across the River }
" Drayage & Wharfage } 250.00
$10,250.00
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Savannah November 1862
-------------------------
Sav 27 Nov 1862
Capt Mallett
C S Labratory
Macon
D Sr
Above you
have bill of Engine Boilers &
Labor in [?] drayage &c
the Engine has all gone to the
R.Road and only[?] remains at
the wharf the 3 pieces which
will go up this evening
Yours very Resp'y
A. N. Miller
Made out
Checks: 10,000.00 + 250.00 = 10,250.00 ✔ exact. The pen brace makes plain that the two service lines — labour in taking down the machinery, and drayage and wharfage — are charged together at the single $250.00, not separately. The footing agrees exactly with the $10,250.00 docketed at image 90 under the date 27 November 1862, which is the date of this letter.
Flagged: three readings, and one spelling left as written. (1) One word in the letter's third line, between "Labor in" and "drayage", I cannot read; it is left [?]. (2) The word before "remains at" I read only, but the l is not looped and it could be another word. (3) The bill's own dateline gives month and year, "Savannah November 1862", with no day. The spelling Labratory, without the second o, is the writer's, twice over, and I have not corrected it. The officer named is Capt. J. W. Mallett, Supt, of the C. S. Laboratory, Macon; the places are Savannah, Macon, and "the River" and "the wharf" without further name; the plant is a second-hand high-pressure engine and boilers, gone to the railroad but for three pieces still on the wharf.
Image 92 — Two exposures on one frame: jacket and voucher, 485 lbs sheet copper, $9,700.00, Macon, 27 January 1865
A single film frame holding two separate sheets photographed one above the other: at the top the voucher jacket, its "No." blank never filled in, carrying the printer's imprint "Burke, Boykin & Co., Printers, Macon, Ga."; at the foot the voucher itself, a printed ordnance form with COST, AMOUNT and REMARKS columns, for one line of sheet copper bought in August 1864 and not paid for until the following January. The "RECORD DIVISION ... WAR DEPARTMENT" oval is stamped in the middle of the voucher's empty column space.
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No. ..................
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First Qr., 186 5
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A. N. Miller
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$ 9.700 00
Paid 27th of Jan 186 5
Burke, Boykin & Co., Printers, Macon, Ga.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Confederate States,
To A N Miller Dr.
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DATE. | | COST. | AMOUNT. | REMARKS
186 4 | Ordnance Service | Dollars|Cts.| Dollars|Cts.| Showing Nature of Disbursements.
Aug. 13th| For | | | | | See Abst of Purchases
| 485. ℔ Sheet Copper . | 20 | 00 | 9.700 | 00 | not paid for. 3rd Qur. 64
| @ | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | $ | | 9.700 | 00 |
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APPROVED for Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars, ———— Cents.
Rich'd M. Cuyler
Lt Col Comm'd'g
RECEIVED at Macon, Ga., the 27th of January 1865, of RICHARD LAMBERT,
M. S. K., and Paymaster Ordnance, Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ———— Cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
( SIGNED IN DUPLICATE. )
Checks: 485 lbs of sheet copper at $20.00 the pound = $9,700.00 ✔ exact, and the single extension carries straight down to the footing of $9,700.00 ✔. Both the approval and the receipt write it out as "Nine Thousand Seven Hundred" dollars with the cents blank, and the jacket above is endorsed $9,700.00, so jacket, extension, footing, approval and receipt all agree.
Flagged: nothing unread, but three things worth noting. (1) The jacket's own "No. ____" blank was never filled in, so this voucher has no number on the papers — the quarter, First 1865, is all the jacket gives. (2) The remark column explains the sixteen-month gap between purchase and payment: "See Abst of Purchases not paid for. 3rd Qur. 64". (3) Cuyler now signs as Lt Col Comm'd'g, where at images 80, 82 and 85 (1863) he signed as Major; the storekeeper Richard Lambert is now styled M. S. K., and Paymaster Ordnance in print. Place, Macon, Ga.
Image 93 — Duplicate jacket and voucher, 485 lbs sheet copper, $9,700.00, Macon, 27 January 1865
The duplicate of the pair at image 92, again two sheets on one film frame — jacket above, voucher below. The jacket carries the same printer's imprint and the same unfilled "No." blank; the "RECORD DIVISION ... WAR DEPARTMENT" oval falls on the jacket in this copy rather than on the voucher. The voucher was written out afresh and is slightly barer than its twin: the day of the month is not entered in the DATE column and the REMARKS column is left entirely empty.
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No. ..................
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First Qr., 186 5
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A. N. Miller
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$ 9.700 00
Paid 27th of Jan 186 5
Burke, Boykin & Co., Printers, Macon, Ga.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Confederate States,
To A N Miller Dr.
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DATE. | | COST. | AMOUNT. | REMARKS
186 4 | Ordnance Service | Dollars|Cts.| Dollars|Cts.| Showing Nature of Disbursements.
| For | | | | |
| 485. ℔ Sheet Copper | 20 | 00 | 9.700 | 00 |
| @ | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | $ | | 9.700 | 00 |
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APPROVED for Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars, ———— Cents.
Rich'd M. Cuyler
Lt Col Comm'd'g
RECEIVED at Macon, Ga., the 27th of January 1865, of RICHARD LAMBERT,
M. S. K., and Paymaster Ordnance, Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ———— Cents,
in full of the above account.
A. N. Miller
( SIGNED IN DUPLICATE. )
Checks: 485 lbs sheet copper @ $20.00 = $9,700.00 ✔ exact, carried down to a footing of $9,700.00 ✔, agreeing with the approval, the receipt and the jacket, and with the whole of image 92.
Flagged: two differences from the original, both of them omissions rather than disagreements. The duplicate does not repeat the purchase date "Aug. 13th" in the DATE column — only the printed year, filled as 1864 — and it does not repeat the remark "See Abst of Purchases not paid for. 3rd Qur. 64". No figure differs between the two copies. Nothing on this frame is illegible.
Image 94 — Voucher jacket, Voucher No. 12, Abstract "B" of Contingencies, A. N. Miller, $343.00
A folded jacket lying on its side, in four panels, printed with the blanks of Confederate Form No. 22 — but the clerk wrote his endorsement on the sheet the other way up, so the manuscript reads normally at the top right while the printed matter stands upside down at the foot. Every printed blank was left empty; the whole of the endorsement is in the hand at the head. A pen tick stands under the sum.
Voucher No 12
"B"
Abstract of Contingencies
A N Miller
$343.00
√
[the printed form, inverted at the foot:]
No. 22.
---
No. ____ Abstract B. ____ Qr., 186 __
$ ____
Paid ____ of ____ 186 __
Checks: one figure, $343.00, and no account on the jacket to prove it against.
Flagged: nothing unread, but the orientation and the numbering both need saying plainly. The sheet is filmed on its side and the printed form is inverted with respect to the writing; I have transcribed the writing upright and noted the printed blanks separately, in their own orientation, all of them unfilled. The "No. 22." at the printed head is the form number — Form 22 is the miscellaneous-disbursement voucher — and is not this voucher's number. This voucher's own number is the 12 the clerk wrote at the top, on Abstract "B", the Abstract of Contingencies. No quarter and no year appear anywhere on the sheet, and I have not supplied either.
Image 95 — Voucher on Form No. 22, Construction of Salt Works, $343.00, receipted 11 December 1862
A printed Confederate miscellaneous-disbursement voucher (Form No. 22), filled out in ink with a twenty-one-line account of machine and blacksmith work done in November 1862 on the government salt works, certified and receipted at the foot.
No. 22.—(VOUCHER.)
The Confederate States,
To Construction of Salt Works To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. | CTS.
1862
Nov To repairing Valve Stem $5.00 1/4 day overtime turning stem $1.75 6 75
" 1/4 day overtime fitting Stems $1.00 1 day fitting Pipe $4.00 5 00
" 2 days fitting Pipes $8.00 1 Flange 12 lbs @ 10c $1.20 9 20
" 1 day " Pipes $4.00 1 day fitting Flange $4.00 8 00
" 1/2 " Keefer[?] $1.00 1/4 day drilling Flange $1.50 2 50
" 1/4 " Middleton $1.00 2 Brass Flanges 12 lbs @ 60c $7.20 8 20
" 1 Brass check valve finished $18.00 38 - 5/8 Bolts & Nuts @ 65c $24.70
42 70
" 1 Cast Steel valve Rod $6.00 1/2 day 2 hands fitting Pipe $4.00 10 00
" Drilling brass Flange $2.00 Fitting do 1/4 day $1.00
1 3/4 day overtime turning valve stem $11.25 14 25
" 2/10 day extra running Engine $16.00 1 3/4 day Helper $4.50 20 50
" Fitting Steel Key $1.00 2 Flanges 15 lbs @ 10c $1.50
Drilling Flange $2.00 4 50
" 1 day turning Valve Stem 7 00
" 1 Hoe[?] 21 lbs 50c $10.50 4 Wrought Flanges @ $1.50 $6.00 16 50
" 2 Steel valve Stems & nuts $6.00 is $12.00
1 day turning valve Stem & nuts $7.50 19 50
" 3/4 day drilling Flanges $4.85 1/4 day fitting Flanges $1.12 5 97
" 24 in Coupling Flanges 120 lbs @ 10c $12.00
79 ft of 3 in Iron Pipe @ $1.25 $98.75 110 75
" 4 Grate Bars 340 lbs @ 8c $27.20 24 Washers @ 15c $3.60 30 80
" Drilling Flange $1.50 1/4 day sawing coupling $1.65 3 15
" 10 lbs Couplings 15 @ 10c $1.50 1 Cast Steel drill $1.25
1 Ring $1.00 3 75
" Work on valve Stems $5.00 Piecing Cast Steel valve Rod $4.00 9 00
" Extra amount paid Dempsey for night Work as per agreement 5 00
$ 343 00
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.
M. B. Millen Assistant Quartermaster. [struck through]
Captain A. C. S.
RECEIVED AT Savannah, Geo on the Eleventh day of December 1862
of Capt. M B Millen A. C. S Assistant Quartermaster [struck through] C. S. Army,
Three Hundred and forty Three ——— dollars and ——————— cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
(Signed in duplicate.)
Checks: the twenty-one extensions sum to $343.02 against a footing of $343.00 — over by 2¢. Internally the individual lines prove: 38 × 65c = $24.70 ✔; 12 lbs @ 60c = $7.20 ✔; 21 lbs @ 50c = $10.50 ✔; 340 lbs @ 8c = $27.20 ✔; 24 @ 15c = $3.60 ✔; 79 ft @ $1.25 = $98.75 ✔; 120 lbs @ 10c = $12.00 ✔; 15 lbs @ 10c = $1.50 ✔.
Flagged: the 2¢ divergence sits on the line reading "3/4 day drilling Flanges $4.85 / 1/4 day fitting Flanges $1.12", extended 5 97. $4.85 + $1.12 = $5.97, so the extension is internally right; if the extension were 5 95 the footing would prove exactly. The final digit is the clerk's descending "7" and I read it as 7 — reported, not corrected. Also uncertain: the workman's name read Keefer[?] (could be Keeper), and the article read 1 Hoe[?] 21 lbs. The printed words "Assistant Quartermaster" are struck through in both the certificate and the receipt, and Millen signs himself Captain A. C. S. The account carries no fort, battery or vessel — the object is the Salt Works.
Image 96 — Jacket, Voucher No. 1, Salt Works Construction Account, A. N. Miller, $2,168.97, paid 31 December 1862
The landscape voucher jacket — a wide, folded, faintly ruled sheet endorsed in the upper left corner and otherwise blank. Filmed with the endorsement upright; the rest of the sheet is empty ruled paper.
Voucher No 1
No. ______ Abstract
Salt works -
Construction Account
A. N. Miller
$ 2,168.97
Foundry Bill
Paid December 31st 1862
Checks: the jacket carries a single sum, $2,168.97, and nothing to add against it. It proves exactly against the account on image 97, which foots to $2,168.97.
Flagged: the jacket's sum, $2,168.97, is not the $343.00 of the account on image 95 — this jacket belongs with the foundry bill on image 97, not with the sheet that precedes it, so do not read images 95 and 96 as one document. The printed "No. ______" for the abstract number is left blank; the abstract letter is not given. Nothing else on the sheet.
Image 97 — Purchase account, Salt Works Construction a/c, $2,168.97, receipted at Savannah 31 December 1862
A printed Confederate purchase-and-receipt form (no form number at the head), filled out in a fine hand for the foundry bill named on the jacket at image 96 — fourteen lines of iron, castings and labour for the salt works.
The Confederate States,
County, Ga. To A N Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. | CTS.
1862
For
Salt Works Construction a/c
262 Grate Bars 21316 lbs @ 8c 1705 28
610 lbs Boiler Iron " 20c 122 " "
16 Furnace Bars 1300 lbs " 8c 104 " "
1 Check & Safety Valve 35 " "
2838 lbs R R Iron @ 3c 85 14
31 lbs Hooks " 40c 12 40
4 lbs I R Packing " $4 16 " "
68 3/4 feet I R Pipe . 60c 41 25
3 Bolts 8 lbs " 30c 2 40
1 Flange 3 " "
2 - 1/2 in Bolts & Nuts 1 " "
1/4 pound Solder 1 " "
2 lbs Copper @ 75c 1 50
Labor Fitting Furnace )
Repairing Valve and } 39 " "
Fitting Flange & Check Valve )
$ 2168 97
I Certify that the above account is correct and just; and that the articles will
be accounted for on my returns for the quarter ending Decemr 31 , 1862, and
that the purchase was made by order of ______________________
Captain
RECEIVED AT SAVANNAH, on the 31 st of December 186 2
Capt
of MAJOR M. B. MILLEN, Commissary of Subsistence, P. A. C. S.,
Twenty one hundred & sixty eight dollars ninety seven cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
[DUPLICATES.]
Checks: the fourteen extensions sum to $2,168.97 — ✔ exact against the footing. Every extension proves: 21316 lbs @ 8c = $1,705.28 ✔; 610 @ 20c = $122.00 ✔; 1300 @ 8c = $104.00 ✔; 2838 @ 3c = $85.14 ✔; 31 @ 40c = $12.40 ✔; 4 @ $4 = $16.00 ✔; 68¾ ft @ 60c = $41.25 ✔; 8 lbs @ 30c = $2.40 ✔; 2 lbs @ 75c = $1.50 ✔. The receipt's written words, "Twenty one hundred & sixty eight dollars ninety seven cents", agree with the figure, and the total agrees with the jacket at image 96.
Flagged: the "and that the purchase was made by order of" line is left blank and the certificate is unsigned — only the receipt is executed. The printed word MAJOR is corrected in ink to Captain (written above at the left) with "Capt" inserted again after MILLEN, so Millen is receipting as a Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, P. A. C. S. The abbreviation I R (in "I R Packing" and "I R Pipe") is written with two clear capitals; I leave it unexpanded. The clerk's cents mark is a looped superscript read here as "c". The blank "County, Ga." and the bare "1862" date column are as printed and left unfilled.
Image 98 — Jacket, C. S. Engineer's Department, No. 82, paid 4th Quarter 1862, $290.15, A. N. Miller
The printed voucher jacket of the Engineer's Department, filmed flat and folded into four panels; only the second panel carries writing, and a struck oval archival stamp sits below it.
C. S. Engineer's Department.
No. 82
Paid 4 th Quarter · 1862
15
$ 290 ---
100
A. N. Miller
✓
( RECORD DIVISION
Ga
WAR DEPARTMENT. ) [oval stamp]
Checks: a single sum, $290 15/100 — nothing to add. It agrees with the account on image 99, which foots to $290.15.
Flagged: the numerator of the fraction is written with a trailing flourish; the second digit is a bare downstroke with a small foot-loop that can be taken for a 0. I read it 15, which is what the account at image 99 foots to and what its receipt spells out in words. The oval is a post-war RECORD DIVISION / WAR DEPARTMENT stamp with "Ga" at its centre, a filing mark and no part of the Confederate document. Show-through from the reverse is visible down both outer panels but is not legible from this side. The plain pencil check mark below the signature is a checking mark, not text.
Image 99 — Voucher on Form No. 12 (Voucher No. 82), $290.15, receipted at Savannah 8 November 1862
The Engineer's Department purchase voucher belonging to the jacket at image 98: thirteen lines of September 1862 ironwork and crane hire, with a certificate signed by two officers and a receipt at the foot. The ink is pale and a heavy blot sits in the certificate line; a long diagonal cancellation stroke crosses the empty lower half of the ruled column.
No. 12.
The Confederate States, Engineer's Department, Savannah, Georgia.
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Date of Purchase. Dollars. | Cts.
Sept 3/62 To 1940 lb Bar Iron fm[?] M——n[?] @ 10 194 "
18 " Use of Crane & Blocks in landing an[d] )
" Cannon lost in the River & found &c ) 10 "
22 " D[?] Spindle Plate 130 lb @ 10 13 "
" 1 Day Boring Spindle plate & turning spindle 7 "
23 " 2 Wrought Bolts & Nuts 126 lb - 30 37 80
24 2 Large Washers " 2 50
" 25 lb Bolts & Nuts - 30 7 50
" 1/2 day Turning Spindle 3 50
" 1/4 " Drilling Plate 1 75
" 2 Pins 50
25 " 2 Washers for Spindle Bolts 1
" 5 Small Washers 1 60
27 " Use of Crane & Blocks on Anchors & Chain 10
290 15
I Certify that the above account is correct and just, [blot] ———— as the ————— for
as 1940 lb. Bar iron for S———[?] with the Quartermaster I have had no concern
John McCrady John Screven
Capt & Chief Eng[r] Major in charge
State of Geo River obstructions.
RECEIVED at Savannah on the 8 th of November 186 2
of Capt Jno. McCrady, Confederate States Army,
Two Hundred and Ninety dollars and Fifteen cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
(SIGNED IN DUPLICATE.)
Checks: the thirteen extensions sum to $290.15 — ✔ exact against the footing, and the receipt spells the same sum in words ("Two Hundred and Ninety dollars and Fifteen cents"). The rates prove: 1940 lb @ 10c = $194.00 ✔; 130 lb @ 10c = $13.00 ✔; 126 lb @ 30c = $37.80 ✔; 25 lb @ 30c = $7.50 ✔.
Flagged: the pale ink defeats two readings. The supplier or destination on the first line — "1940 lb Bar Iron fm[?] M———n[?]" — I cannot resolve; the same word recurs in the certificate ("1940 lb. Bar iron for S———[?]") and is no clearer there. The manuscript addition to the printed certificate is partly buried under a large ink blot and I can recover only its shape, ending "...with the Quartermaster I have had no concern" — that disclaimer is Screven's, distancing the river-obstruction account from the Quartermaster's. The "2 Washers for Spindle Bolts" line shows $1 in the dollars column with the cents column empty; it is read as $1.00 and the footing proves on that reading. The date column entries 24 and 25 sit against lines whose ditto marks vary. Two officers appear here for the first time in this range: Capt. John McCrady, Chief Engineer, State of Georgia (who also pays the money) and Maj. John Screven, in charge of River Obstructions. The work is river-obstruction ironwork — spindle plates, spindles, bolts, washers and pins, with crane and blocks hired to land anchors, chain, and a cannon lost in the river and recovered.
Image 100 — Jacket, No. 28, Ordnance Service, $498.20, A. N. Miller, paid 25 July 1862
A printed Ordnance voucher jacket, folded in four and filmed flat; only the centre panel is written on. A large oval archival stamp is struck below the writing, and a bold pen flourish sits at the bottom.
No. 28
A. N. Miller
Paid July 25 1862
Ordnance Service, $ 498.20
( RECORD DIVISION
★ REBEL ARCHIVES ★
WAR ... ) [oval stamp, partly illegible]
Checks: one sum, $498.20 — nothing to add against it.
Flagged: the sum is written "4 98.20" with the dollars and cents crowded together; I read $498.20. The oval is the post-war RECORD DIVISION / REBEL ARCHIVES / WAR [DEPARTMENT] stamp, a filing mark and no part of the Confederate document; its lower legend is struck through the paper's fold and cannot be read whole. Strong mirror show-through covers the right-hand panels; reversed, it reads "The Confederate States of America", "Approved", "Received" and "FAYETTEVILLE ARSENAL AND ARMORY" — that is the printed face of the leaf's other side, not writing on this side, and Fayetteville is a printed form heading, not a Savannah place.
Image 101 — Ordnance voucher, Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory, $498.20, receipted 25 July 1862
A landscape printed Ordnance Department account and receipt — the voucher belonging to the jacket at image 100. Five lines of metal sold for the Ordnance Service in June 1862, approved and receipted the same day at the Arsenal.
The Confederate States of America,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
REMARKS
Showing the object of the purchase or expenditure.
1862 | Ordnance Service,
June 9 | For 262 lbs. Sheet Copper at 1 00 | $262 00
" | " 991 " Sheet Iron " 15 | 148 65
" | " 203 " Scrap Brass " 35 | 71 05
" | " 125 " Lead " 13 | 16 25
| " Drayage | 25
| $ 498 20
Approved for Four hundred and ninety Eight Dollars Twenty Cents,
July 25 1862 Jno. C. Booth Capt. Aty[?] Commanding.
Received from Capt. Jno. C. Booth, Comdg
Four hundred and ninety Eight Dollars, Twenty Cents, in full of the above account.
FAYETTEVILLE ARSENAL AND ARMORY, )
July 25 th 186 2 ) (Signed Duplicates.) A N Miller
Checks: 262 × $1.00 = $262.00 ✔; 991 × 15c = $148.65 ✔; 203 × 35c = $71.05 ✔; 125 × 13c = $16.25 ✔. Those four come to $497.95; with 25c drayage the account foots to $498.20 — ✔ exact, and the words of both the approval and the receipt say the same ("Four hundred and ninety Eight Dollars Twenty Cents").
Flagged: 🔴 this sheet is not a Savannah document. It is headed and receipted at the FAYETTEVILLE ARSENAL AND ARMORY and paid by Capt. Jno. C. Booth, Commanding — no Savannah place, officer or work appears on it, and the jacket at image 100 endorses it only "Ordnance Service". Whether the A. N. Miller here is the Savannah founder is not settled by anything on the page; the signature is in the same style as the Savannah receipts. Booth's rank abbreviation after his name reads "Capt. A^ty" and is taken as Artillery, marked [?]. Small pencil check marks stand beside every quantity and extension — a later checker's ticks, not part of the account.
Image 102 — Jacket, Ordnance Department Savannah, Abstract A, Voucher No. 6, 3rd Quarter 1861, $248.12
The printed voucher jacket of the Ordnance Department at Savannah, filmed flat; the writing runs down the centre panel, with a heavy black ink smear across the right of it, a cancelled pencil-and-ink note lower down, and the usual oval archival stamp at the foot.
Ordnance Department
Savannah Geo
______________________________
A.
No 6
Voucher No.
A. N. Miller
3 rd Quarter, 1861
Sundry[?] 6 th $ 248 12[?]/100
____________________________
✗
✓
Doolittle $1.00 [struck through]
( RECORD DIVISION
★ ... ★
WAR DEPARTMENT ) [oval stamp, largely illegible]
Checks: one sum only. The fraction as written is cramped; read as 12/100 it agrees exactly with the account on image 103, which foots to $248.12.
Flagged: the numerator of the fraction is badly crowded and, taken by itself, could as easily be read 75. I read it 12 because the account it covers foots to $248.12 — the reading is inferred from the companion sheet, not decided by this page, and is marked [?] accordingly. The word before "6 th" is read Sundry[?] and is not certain. The line "Doolittle $1.00" is struck through with a single horizontal stroke; whether it was ever part of this voucher I cannot say. A heavy black ink smear runs from the middle of the panel into the right-hand fold and obscures nothing legible. The printed "Voucher No." sits below the handwritten "No 6", and the "A." above is the abstract letter.
Image 103 — Two sheets in one frame: Ordnance account $248.12, 6 July 1861, and jacket Voucher No. 7, $2,685.13
The frame holds two separate sheets photographed one above the other: at the top the printed Ordnance account and receipt that belongs with the jacket at image 102, and below it a second, unrelated jacket for Voucher No. 7. The account carries pencil scratch arithmetic in the empty body of the ruled column and a pencil correction of the footing.
The Confederate States
Ordnance Dept To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE OF
PURCHASE. DOLLARS. | CTS.
June 8 ✓ To 4 Tent Pins 25 ✓ 1 „ 00
18 — " 50 8 inch Shells 3250 lb 3 3/4 ✓ 121 „ 87
" 50 8 " ———— Shell 2525 . 5. ✓ 126 „ 25
————
2525 248 „ 12
+ 249 . 12
249 . 12 [pencil]
3250 [pencil working, in the body of the column]
6 3/4[?]
----------
1 4 9 ? 5 0
1 2 2 4 0 ?
----------
1 3 7 ? 8 1[?]
I CERTIFY that the above account is correct and just; the articles are to be (or have
been) accounted for on my property return for the Quarter ending on the
day of , 186
Received at Savannah , the Sixth day of July , 186 1
of Capt W G Gill Two hundred & forty [eight] dollars
and twelve cents, in full of the above account.
A N Miller
(SIGNED DUPLICATES.)
— second sheet, lower half of the frame —
Voucher No 7
Armament of
Fortifications
2685 - 13[?]/100
May 29 th 1861
A. N. Miller
Ex d[?] [initials]
( RECORD DIV... / ...DEPARTMENT ) [oval stamp, largely illegible]
Checks: 4 @ 25c = $1.00 ✔; 3250 lb @ 3¾c = $121.875, entered $121.87 (the half-cent dropped, as a clerk would) ✔; 2525 lb @ 5c = $126.25 ✔. Those three come to $249.12, but the ink footing reads $248 12 — the footing is $1.00 short, and the account does not prove.
Flagged: the $1.00 shortfall is not mine and I have not corrected it: someone at the time saw it too and wrote "+ 249.12" and again "249.12" in pencil directly below the ink footing. The receipt was nonetheless taken for the ink figure — the words read "Two hundred & forty [eight] dollars and twelve cents", though the numeral of "forty-eight" is written over the printed word "dollars" and is crowded; [?] on that one word. Note also the struck "Doolittle $1.00" on the jacket at image 102 — the same $1.00, possibly, but nothing on either sheet says so and I do not claim it. The pencil multiplication in the body of the column is a checker's scratch work; the multiplier and result are too faint to read with confidence and are given with [?] throughout. The certificate at the head of the receipt is left entirely blank — no quarter, no date, no signature. The paying officer is Capt. W. G. Gill. The lower jacket names a different voucher (No. 7, Armament of Fortifications, May 29th 1861) and a different, much larger sum; its cents numerator is cramped and marked [?], and the two initials after "Ex d" cannot be read. That jacket belongs with the account on images 104-105, which foots to $2,685.13 — so the numerator is 13.
Image 104 — Ordnance account, Armament of Fortifications, $2,685.13, receipted at Savannah 29 May 1861
The long printed account belonging to the "Voucher No. 7" jacket in the lower half of image 103 — twenty-eight lines of gauges, shot, shell, sabots, handspikes and a howitzer with its flank carriage, grouped by date with running sub-totals bracketed in a second money column. The sheet is checked over in a later hand with ✓ and ✗ marks against nearly every figure.
The Confederate States of America
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Date of
Purchase. Dollars. | Cts.
Mar 20 2 Ring Gauges 42" @ 5 25 ) 10 50
2 " " 32" @ 5 05 ) 10 10
2 " " 24" @ 4 55 ) 9 10
2 " " 18" @ 4 55 ) 9 10
2 " " 12" @ 4 45 ) 8 90
2 " " 6" @ 4 40 ) 8 80
2 " " 10 in @ 6 05 ) 12 10
2 " " 8" @ 5 55 ) 11 10 79 70
2 Shell " @ 5 00 10 00
1 pr Callipers 19 12 29 12
May 14 20. 65 lb Shot 1300 @ 3 3/4 48 75
1 8 in Sponge Staff 5 00
1 8" Rammer 3 50
4 Truck Handspikes 83 @ 15 12 45
2 Manoeuvreing " @ 5 00 10 00
2 Priming Wires 50 80 20
22 20 Pass Boxes @ 2 00 40 00
1 pr Casting for Carriage 51 @ 5 2 55 42 55
1 24 pr Howitzer 150 00
1 Flank Carriage & Implements for do 250 250 00 400 00
24 12 Manoeuvreing Handspikes @ 5 00 60 00
10 Truck " 210 @ 15 31 50
275 8 in Sabots @ 25 68 75
3/4 day on Casting Pattern 2 25
Lumber for do 45 162 95
10 Truck Handspikes 211 @ 15 31 65
28 100 8 in Sabots @ 25 25 00
8 Manoeuvreing Handspikes @ 5 00 40 00 96 65
29 856 32 pdr Round Shot 27,905 @ 3 3/4 1046 43
69 8 in " " 4485 @ 3 3/4 168 18
171 Strapped Shell 32 pdr @ 1 75 299 25
79 32 pdr Schrapnell Shell @ 1 50 118 50
64 8 in Columbiad " 3232 @ 5 161 60 1793 96
$ 2685 13
I CERTIFY that the above Account is correct and just; the articles are to be (or have
been) accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending on the day
of 18 .
Quartermaster.
RECEIVED at Savannah ——— the Twenty=ninth ——— day of
May ——— 1861 of Capt. W. G.[?] Gill Ordnance Officer
Quartermaster Georgia Army, [struck through]
the Sum of Two Thousand, six hundred & eighty=five dollars and Thirteen cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
Checks: every extension proves. 2 @ $5.25 = $10.50 ✔, and so on down the gauge block; 1300 lb @ 3¾c = $48.75 ✔; 83 @ 15c = $12.45 ✔; 51 @ 5c = $2.55 ✔; 210 @ 15c = $31.50 ✔; 275 @ 25c = $68.75 ✔; 211 @ 15c = $31.65 ✔; 100 @ 25c = $25.00 ✔; 27,905 lb @ 3¾c = $1,046.4375, entered $1,046.43 ✔; 4,485 lb @ 3¾c = $168.1875, entered $168.18 ✔; 171 @ $1.75 = $299.25 ✔; 79 @ $1.50 = $118.50 ✔; 3,232 lb @ 5c = $161.60 ✔. The eight bracketed sub-totals prove as well — 79.70, 29.12, 80.20, 42.55, 400.00, 162.95, 96.65, 1793.96 — and 79.70 + 29.12 + 80.20 + 42.55 + 400.00 + 162.95 + 96.65 + 1793.96 = $2,685.13 ✔ exact against the footing, the receipt's words ("Two Thousand, six hundred & eighty=five dollars and Thirteen cents") and the jacket at image 103.
Flagged: the last sub-total's third digit could be taken for an 8, giving 1798.96; the grand total settles it at 1793.96 and I read it so rather than "correcting" anything. Two small readings are inferred rather than seen: the 8-inch ring gauge rate, written "5 55" (2 × $5.55 = $11.10, which the sub-total requires), and the priming-wire entry, "50". The middle initial of the paying officer is a looped capital that could be G or S — Capt. W. G.[?] Gill, the same officer who pays the account on image 103, where it reads more like a G. The printed "Quartermaster Georgia Army" is struck through and Ordnance Officer written above it. The Quartermaster's certificate at the head of the receipt is left wholly blank and unsigned. Weights confirm the natures: 20 shot of 1,300 lb (65 lb each), 856 32-pdr shot of 27,905 lb (32.6 lb each), 69 8-inch shot of 4,485 lb (65 lb each), 64 8-inch Columbiad shell of 3,232 lb (50.5 lb each).
Image 105 — Second exposure of the same account, Armament of Fortifications, $2,685.13, 29 May 1861
The same physical sheet as image 104, filmed a second time with a wider frame — the ruled margin and the full receipt block show here, and the paper's tear along the right edge, every ✓ and ✗ check mark, and every ink stroke fall in exactly the same places. It is one document photographed twice, not a duplicate copy.
The Confederate States of America
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Date of
Purchase. Dollars. | Cts.
Mar 20 2 Ring Gauges 42" @ 5 25 ) 10 50
2 " " 32" @ 5 05 ) 10 10
2 " " 24" @ 4 55 ) 9 10
2 " " 18" @ 4 55 ) 9 10
2 " " 12" @ 4 45 ) 8 90
2 " " 6" @ 4 40 ) 8 80
2 " " 10 in @ 6 05 ) 12 10
2 " " 8" @ 5 55 ) 11 10 79 70
2 Shell " @ 5 00 10 00
1 pr Callipers 19 12 29 12
May 14 20. 65 lb Shot 1300 @ 3 3/4 48 75
1 8 in Sponge Staff 5 00
1 8" Rammer 3 50
4 Truck Handspikes 83 @ 15 12 45
2 Manoeuvreing " @ 5 00 10 00
2 Priming Wires 50 80 20
22 20 Pass Boxes @ 2 00 40 00
1 pr Casting for Carriage 51 @ 5 2 55 42 55
1 24 pr Howitzer 150 00
1 Flank Carriage & Implements for do 250 250 00 400 00
24 12 Manoeuvreing Handspikes @ 5 00 60 00
10 Truck " 210 @ 15 31 50
275 8 in Sabots @ 25 68 75
3/4 day on Casting Pattern 2 25
Lumber for do 45 162 95
10 Truck Handspikes 211 @ 15 31 65
28 100 8 in Sabots @ 25 25 00
8 Manoeuvreing Handspikes @ 5 00 40 00 96 65
29 856 32 pdr Round Shot 27,905 @ 3 3/4 1046 43
69 8 in " " 4485 @ 3 3/4 168 18
171 Strapped Shell 32 pdr @ 1 75 299 25
79 32 pdr Schrapnell Shell @ 1 50 118 50
64 8 in Columbiad " 3232 @ 5 161 60 1793 96
$ 2685 13
I CERTIFY that the above Account is correct and just; the articles are to be (or have
been) accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending on the day
of 18 .
Quartermaster.
RECEIVED at Savannah ——— the Twenty=ninth ——— day of
May ——— 1861 of Capt. W. G.[?] Gill Ordnance Officer
Quartermaster Georgia Army, [struck through]
the Sum of Two Thousand, six hundred & eighty=five dollars and Thirteen cents,
in full of the above account.
A N Miller
Checks: the arithmetic is the same as at image 104 and proves the same way — the eight bracketed sub-totals 79.70 + 29.12 + 80.20 + 42.55 + 400.00 + 162.95 + 96.65 + 1793.96 = $2,685.13 ✔ exact, agreeing with the receipt's words and with the "Voucher No. 7" jacket on image 103.
Flagged: the date cell at the head is clearer in this exposure than in image 104 and reads Mar 20; I have read image 104's cell the same way. Nothing else differs. The certificate above the receipt is again blank and unsigned, and the paying officer's middle initial is again ambiguous, W. G.[?] Gill.
Image 106 — Jacket, Voucher No. 12, Abstract B, 3d Qr. 1864, A. N. Miller, $71.00, paid 16 July 1864
The reverse of the printed Form No. 22 voucher whose face is image 107 — the endorsement panel, written upright in the middle of the sheet. The rest of the frame is filled with reversed printed and manuscript show-through from the face.
NO. 22.
—— • • • ——
No. 12 . ABSTRACT B., . . . . 3 d . . . . QR., 186 4
—— • • • ——
A N Miller
00
$ 71 ————
100
Paid 16 of July 186 4
Checks: one sum, $71 00/100, which is exactly the footing of the account on image 107.
Flagged: 🔴 the printed "NO. 22." at the head is the Confederate form number, not this voucher's number. The voucher's own number is the handwritten No. 12, on Abstract B, 3d Quarter 1864. Everything else on the frame is mirror show-through of the face — the printed heading "THE CONFEDERATE STATES, NO. 22", the column rules, the certificate and the receipt — reversed and not read from this side. A faint pencilled oval (a drawn ring, not a stamp) sits below the endorsement.
Image 107 — Voucher on Form No. 22, Repairs of Str Ida, $71.00, receipted at Savannah 16 July 1864
The face of the printed Form No. 22 voucher whose endorsement panel is image 106 — four lines of machine and forge work on the steamer Ida, receipted at the foot. Reversed show-through of the endorsement ("No. 12 . ABSTRACT B . . . Paid 16 of July 186 4") runs down the empty body of the ruled column.
NO. 22.
THE CONFEDERATE STATES,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. | CTS.
Repairs of Str Ida
Feb 12 Piecing out bolt for beam pedestal 3 00
1/2 day turning & chasing do 5 00
Mach 13 1 Holding down strap 50 oz 60 00
2 Keys 3 00
$ 71 00
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.
[illegible inserted line]
Received Savannah Ga on the 16
of July , 186 4 of Capt T W Neely[?] Assistant
Quartermaster, Seventy one —————————— dollars
—————— cents, in full of the above account.
[SIGNED DUPLICATES.]
A N Miller
Checks: $3.00 + $5.00 + $60.00 + $3.00 = $71.00 ✔ exact against the footing, against the words of the receipt ("Seventy one dollars", the cents line left blank and ruled off), and against the jacket at image 106.
Flagged: a line of writing runs above the printed "Received … on the" rule, in the same ink and hand as the receipt, and I cannot read it — six or seven words ending in a short underlined word; I will not guess at it. The certificate "I Certify, on honor…" is printed but left unsigned — no officer certifies, only the receipt is executed. The paying officer reads Capt T W Neely[?], Assistant Quartermaster; the surname could be Nealy. The month is written "Mach" for March, as the clerk wrote it. The weight of the holding-down strap is written "50 oz" with no rate given against the $60.00. The vessel named is the steamer Ida.
Image 108 — Jacket, Voucher No. 11, Abstract B, 3d Qr. 1864, A. N. Miller, $1,169.20[?], paid 16 July 1864
The endorsement panel of another Form No. 22 voucher, filmed folded down the middle; the writing is on the right leaf, the left leaf blank apart from faint show-through. A large oval archival stamp is struck across the lower right.
NO. 22.
—— • • • ——
No. 11 . . . ABSTRACT B . . . . . 3 d . . . . QR., 186 4
—— • • • ——
A . N . Miller
20[?]
$ 1169 ————
Paid 16 of July 186 4
( ★ RECORD DI[VISION] ... 186_ ...
WAR DEPARTMENT. ★ ) [oval stamp, partly legible]
Checks: one sum. The dollars agree with the account on image 109, which foots to $1,169.25; the cents do not — this jacket's superscript reads 20, the account and its receipt both say 25.
Flagged: 🔴 the printed "NO. 22." is the form number; this voucher is No. 11, Abstract B, 3d Quarter 1864, paid the same day (16 July 1864) as No. 12 on images 106–107. The cents are written as a superscript over a rule, without the "/100" the other jackets use. The second digit is a small closed loop with a downstroke that I read as 0, giving $1,169.20 — but the account at image 109 foots to $1,169.25 and its receipt spells "twenty five Cents", so the same glyph may be the clerk's 5. I record what the jacket appears to say and flag the 5c divergence rather than silently making the two agree. The oval stamp reads RECORD DI[VISION] … WAR DEPARTMENT with a year in its centre that the fold has broken; it is a post-war filing mark. No fort, vessel or officer is named on this side.
Image 109 — Voucher on Form No. 22, Repairs of Str Beauregard, footed $1,169.25, receipted at Savannah 16 July 1864
The account belonging to the jacket at image 108 — twenty-eight lines of pattern-making, castings, machine and forge work on the steamer Beauregard between 27 February and 6 June, certified by a Quartermaster and receipted at the foot. A large pen flourish fills the empty lower half of the column. This frame is a noticeably coarser scan than its neighbours (680 × 1600 pixels), and several figures cannot be resolved on it.
No. 22.—VOUCHER.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
DATE. DOLLARS. | CTS.
Repairs of Str Beauregard
Feb 27 11 days on pattern for Cylinder Head 110
1 1/2 " 2 Helpers turning for do 12
50 feet white Pine for pattern 12 50
1/2 lb of Brads " " 2 50
Mar 5 1 Cylinder Head Casting 568 @ 25 142
31 6 days turning Head 180
April 2 2 1/2 " drilling " 50
1/2 " making template for Head 5
9 feet Lumber for do 2 25
1 Cement can 1 00 & dressing 2 chisels 1 00 2
20 lb of borings @ 85 1 Brass bushing 20 37
1 day boring & turning bushing 30
" 1 1/2 " on brace pattern 18
2 1/2 " fitting Piston Studs &c 25
3 lb of Babbitt Metal @ 15 45
5 2 Composition p———s[?] & braces 101 @ 5 505[?]
1 1/4 day drilling & boring do 25
1 " turning Studs & Cocks 20
7 feet white pine for ——th[?] pattern 1 75
1 day Helper on Cylinder Head 8
3/4 " turning Block pins & Eye bolts 15
12 lb bolts 18 2 Blocks pins 2 20
Repairing 1 Key 1 3 Studs & nuts 15 16
4 1/2 hours Blacksmith & Helpers on bolts &c 3 00 13 50
3 1/2 lb of bolt Copper 3 10 50
Boring brace 2 1/2 day chasing studs 10 12
6 2 1/4 days Boiler Maker @ 12 27
25. lb Washers 5 25 4 lb patch iron 20 & Screws 28 25
$ 1169 25
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.
Jno. Stewart[?] Maj[?] Assistant [struck through] Quartermaster.
RECEIVED Savannah July 16 1864, of Capt T W Neely A Q M
Eleven Hundred & Sixty Nine Dollars, and twenty five Cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed Duplicates.) A N Miller
Checks: 🔴 the column does not foot as I read it. Adding the twenty-eight entries as transcribed gives $1,375.25 against a footing of $1,169.25 — an excess of exactly $206.00. The footing itself is corroborated twice over: the receipt spells "Eleven Hundred & Sixty Nine Dollars, and twenty five Cents", and the jacket at image 108 carries $1,169 (with the cents in doubt). Individual lines that can be tested do prove: 568 lb @ 25c = $142.00 ✔; 20 lb @ 85c = $17.00 plus a $20 brass bushing = $37.00 ✔; 3 lb @ $15 = $45.00 ✔; 4½ hours @ $3.00 = $13.50 ✔; 3½ lb @ $3 = $10.50 ✔; 2¼ days @ $12 = $27.00 ✔; $1 + $15 = $16 ✔; $18 + $2 = $20 ✔; $2 + $10 = $12 ✔; $5.25 + $20 + $3 = $28.25 ✔.
Flagged: the whole of the $206 divergence sits on one line I cannot read at this scan's resolution — "2 Composition p———s[?] & braces 101 @ 5", extended 505[?]. At native size that cell is about 125 × 40 pixels and the three digits blur together; 505 is what the strokes suggest, and 101 lb at $5 would give exactly that, but the footing requires $299 in its place, which the digits will not support. I have not altered the figure to make the column close — the divergence is reported and left. Other uncertain readings, all from the same coarse scan: the noun in that line after "Composition"; the word before "pattern" in "7 feet white pine for ——th[?] pattern"; and the certifying officer, read Jno. Stewart[?] Maj[?], whose printed title "Assistant" is struck through leaving "Quartermaster". The vessel is the steamer Beauregard; the paying officer is again Capt. T. W. Neely, A. Q. M., the same officer and the same day (16 July 1864) as the Ida account on image 107.
Image 110 — Jacket, Voucher No. 14, Abstract A, 3 Qr. 1864, A. N. Miller, $6,385.00, paid 4 August 1864
The endorsement panel of a printed Form No. 12 voucher, filmed flat; the writing sits in the upper middle of the sheet, with a large oval archival stamp struck below and left. Reversed show-through of the face's printed heading and rules covers the outer thirds of the frame.
No. 12.
——
No. 14 . . . ABSTRACT A . . 3 . . . . QR., 186 4
—— • • • ——
A N Miller
00
$ 6385 ————
Paid 4 of August 186 4
( ★ RECORD DI[VISION] ...
WAR DEPARTMENT. ★ ) [oval stamp, largely illegible]
Checks: one sum, $6,385.00 — the largest in this range, and the footing of the account on image 111.
Flagged: 🔴 the printed "No. 12." at the head is the Confederate form number — the purchase-voucher form — not the voucher's own number, which is the handwritten No. 14, on Abstract A, 3 Quarter 1864. Note that image 106's jacket also carries a handwritten "No. 12", there as a voucher number on Abstract B; the two are unrelated numbers that look alike, and confusing them would merge two different documents. The cents are written "00" as a superscript over a rule. The oval stamp's inner legend is broken by the fold and cannot be read. No fort, vessel or officer is named on this side.
Image 111 — Voucher on Form No. 12, one lot Boiler Iron for Steamer Beauregard, $6,385.00, receipted at Savannah 4 August 1864
A printed Confederate purchase voucher with a single-line account — one lot of boiler iron for the steamer Beauregard — certified and receipted by the same Assistant Quartermaster. It is the account belonging to the jacket at image 110, and the largest sum in this range.
No. 12.
The Confederate States,
To A. N. Miller Dr.
Date of Purchase. DOLLARS. | CTS.
1864 For Steamer Beauregard
Aug 1 st To one lot Boiler Iron
1277 lb @ $5 00 $ 6385 00
$ 6385 00
I certify that the above account is correct and just; and that the articles have been
accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending on the 30 of Sept 186 4
T W Neely
Capt & Asst Assistant Quartermaster.
RECEIVED AT Savannah on the 4 th day of August 186 4
of Capt. T. W. Neely Assistant Quartermaster C. S. Army,
Sixty three hundred eighty five dollars and —————— cents,
in full of the above account.
(Signed in duplicate.) A N Miller
Checks: 1,277 lb @ $5.00 = $6,385.00 ✔ exact, and the single extension is repeated as the footing lower in the column. The receipt's words, "Sixty three hundred eighty five dollars" with the cents line ruled off empty, agree, as does the jacket at image 110.
Flagged: nothing doubtful in the figures. Unlike the Ida and Beauregard labour accounts on images 107 and 109, this one is certified — Capt. T. W. Neely, Assistant Quartermaster, signs both the certificate (for the quarter ending 30 September 1864) and pays the money, and his surname is legible here in a way it is not on image 107, confirming Neely. The vessel is again the steamer Beauregard. The price is worth noting alongside image 97, where boiler iron was 20c a pound in December 1862; here it is $5.00 a pound in August 1864 — the page's own figures, not a comparison the document makes.
Part 2 — Normalized data (separate layer; does not alter Part 1)
The man
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name_original | A. N. Miller; once written A. W. Miller in a heading where the receipt is signed A. N. Miller |
| trade | founder, blacksmith, machinist and wharf owner |
| city / state | Savannah, Georgia |
| side | Confederate contractor |
| customers | Confederate Engineer Department at Savannah · Ordnance · Quartermaster · Commissary · the Navy · the Salt Works · the C. S. Laboratory at Macon |
| date range evidenced | 1861-03-20 to 1865-01-27 |
The forts, batteries and works named
| Work | Where it appears |
|---|---|
| Fort Pulaski | pump repairs, mortar platforms, cavalier staff |
| Fort Jackson | the portcullis strap — 62 lb at 15c, $9.30 |
| Caustons Bluff Battery | centre pintle, hot shot furnace bars, key bolts, traverse circle, gin |
| Warsaw Battery | bolts |
| Bay Battery | props for an 8-inch Columbiad carriage; hot shot furnace |
| Green Island | a traverse circle costed at $48.46, then multiplied across the works |
| Genesis Point | (later Fort McAllister) |
| St Simons · Sapelo[?] · Tybee · Fort Rosedew[?] · "New Battery" · the Naval Battery | named in passing |
| the Military Road | railroad frogs, switch stands and switches |
| the Salt Works | valve stems, check valves, grate bars, running the engine |
The ordnance
This is the part that earns the file its place on an artillery site.
| Article | Detail |
|---|---|
| 10-inch mortars with beds | 3 at $1,200 each |
| 10-inch mortar shell | 185, weighing 16,187 lb, at 5½c |
| 42-pounder grape | 16 at $3.00 |
| 32-pounder grape | 99 at $2.50 |
| 32-pounder canister | 60 at $2.50 |
| 8-inch rifle shell with brass percussion fuse | 50 at $11.00 |
| 8-inch Columbiad shell · strapped shell · schrapnell shell · round shot | by the piece and by weight |
| 24-pounder howitzer | with flank carriage and implements |
| sabots · pass boxes · sponge staff · rammer · priming wires · handspikes | the furniture of a gun |
| ring and shell gauges and callipers | the tools of an ordnance inspector |
| Torpedoes | a pattern; the costed anatomy of one; 9 at $31.00 each; 10 floats; 650 lb of cast iron for anchors; a "Sub marine Bomb[?]" |
Gun mountings recur throughout: centre pintles, traverse circles (one cast iron of 500 lb, another costed at $48.46), key bolts, mortar and gun platforms, a 10-inch platform, hot shot furnace bars, and gins — repairing gins, a chassis gin, a gin platform, five Mortar Stake Gins, and a pattern for a stake mortar gin.
The engine and boilers that went to Macon
On 27 November 1862 Miller sold Capt. J. W. Mallett, Superintendent of the C. S. Laboratory at Macon, a second-hand high-pressure engine and boilers for $10,000, with $250 for taking down the machinery, carrying it across the river, draying and wharfage — $10,250, and it proves. His covering letter says the engine "has all gone to the RRoad and only remains at the wharf the 3 pieces which will go up this evening." Later sheets carry lathes of 36, 24 and 18 inches, a drill press and sheet copper to the Macon Arsenal under Richard Cuyler, as late as 27 January 1865.
Vessels
Steamers Ida (repeatedly) · Beauregard · Habersham · Resolute · Reliance · the chartered cotton-clad boats Chatham and Lamar on the Altamaha, under 1st Lieut. N. B. Clinch · "Capt Screven" · mooring flats and a flat boat decked with live oak · pile drivers.
Officers
| Name | Office as the file gives it |
|---|---|
| Capt., later Maj., W. H. Echols | Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer — certifies and pays throughout |
| Capt. Joseph C. Ives | orders the torpedo and gin work |
| Capt. John McCrady | Capt. & Chief Engineer, State of Georgia |
| Maj. John Screven | in charge River Obstructions |
| Lt. A. F. Cunningham | 1st Lt. Artillery & Ordnance — certifies the mortar and projectile account |
| Maj./Lt. Col. Richard M. Cuyler | Artillery & Ordnance; commanding at Macon by 1865 |
| Capt. J. W. Mallett | Superintendent, C. S. Laboratory, Macon |
| Richard Lambert | M.S.K., Ordnance Corps, later "M.S.K. and Paymaster Ordnance" |
| Capt. W. G.[?] Gill | Ordnance Officer |
| Capt./Maj. Jas. T. Stewart · Maj. J. S. Smith · Capt. T. W. Neely · Cha[s] S. Hardee[?] | Quartermasters |
| Maj. M. B. Millen · Maj. J. L. Locke | Commissary of Subsistence |
| Langdon Cheves | A.D.C. |
| Thos. W. Brent, Commandant, and Robert M. Bain, Carpenter | the Navy bill |
| 1st Lieut. N. B. Clinch, P.A.C.S. | late in charge cotton-clad boats on the Altamaha |
| Capt. Jno. C. Booth | commanding, Fayetteville Arsenal — on the stray at image 101 |
🔴 Three sheets are not this man's, and one is not this state's
| Image | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| 22 | Voucher No. 11, John Wharton, 20 bushels of charcoal, Camp near Culpeper C.H., Virginia, 28 July 1863 |
| 101 | headed and receipted at the Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory, North Carolina |
| 92, 93 | Macon, Georgia — Miller's own, but not Savannah |
The pages that do not prove
The great majority of accounts prove exactly, extension by extension. These do not, and no figure has been corrected:
| Image | The divergence |
|---|---|
| 109 | column sums $1,375.25 against a footing of $1,169.25 — $206.00, the whole gap on one line whose cell is about 125 × 40 pixels and will not resolve |
| 51 | eight group sums come to $129.60 against a footing of $190.85 — $61.25 short; the least legible sheet in its run |
| 37 | two entries totalling $288.05 against a footing and a written receipt of $282.05 — exactly $6.00 |
| 15 | five groups add to $95.62½ against a footing of $95.52; a reviewer wrote "+ should be 95.62 1/2" and the low figure was paid anyway |
| 103 | extensions $249.12 against an ink footing of $248.12; a contemporary hand pencilled "+249.12" beside it |
| 46 | the rivet line extends at $390.00 where 142 lb @ $1.50 + 90 lb @ $2.00 is $393.00; only $390.00 closes the footing |
| 95 | column $343.02 against a footing of $343.00 — two cents |
| 83 | ¾ × 18 is 13.5 and the clerk carried 13 — half a cent |
| 18 | column as read $155.73 against a footed $155.33; four cents figures are past the scan's resolution |
Confederate auditors caught some of these themselves, on the page. One wrote "Error in addition of 1 / should be 15.25" and "Disallowed $1."; another "+ should be 95.62 1/2"; a third "sub voucher not rec'd" against $228.93 whose detail is not in the file.
Several jackets also disagree with their own vouchers by a few cents — $473.3/100 against $473.31, $295.61 against $295.67, $282.65 against $282.05, $86.00 against $86.18, and a 5c gap at images 108/109. All are printed as they stand.
Two pages are partial transcriptions and say so: image 35, the faintest scan in the file, and image 85, where the tonnage fraction will not resolve.
One impossible date: image 76 begins "Sept 31".
Part 3 — Proposed identifications (external knowledge; flagged, never merged)
| In the file | Proposed identification | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capt., later Maj., W. H. Echols | William Holding Echols, Confederate engineer — a captain at Savannah in 1861–62 before the Charleston service in which he certifies vouchers in five other files of this collection | HIGH |
| Capt. J. W. Mallett | John William Mallet, Superintendent of Confederate Ordnance Laboratories | HIGH |
| Capt. Joseph C. Ives | Joseph Christmas Ives, Confederate engineer, later aide to President Davis | POSSIBLE |
| Maj./Lt. Col. Richard M. Cuyler | Richard M. Cuyler, commanding the Macon Arsenal | HIGH |
| Capt. John McCrady | John McCrady, Chief Engineer of the State of Georgia | HIGH |
| Maj. John Screven | John Screven of Savannah, in charge of the river obstructions | POSSIBLE |
| Genesis Point | the site fortified as Fort McAllister | HIGH |
| Capt. Jno. C. Booth | John C. Booth, Confederate ordnance officer; he also pays the New Orleans vouchers in the John Brownlee file of this collection | POSSIBLE |
| Langdon Cheves | of the Charleston family; not to be conflated with John R. Cheves of the harbour obstructions | LOW |
| A. N. Miller | not identified beyond this file; no forename is given anywhere in 111 images | LOW |
Open questions
- What Miller's initials stood for. No forename appears in the file.
- The $206.00 line at image 109, which needs a better scan than Fold3's.
- Whether the torpedoes of March 1862 were ever placed, and where.
- Why three sheets from Culpeper, Fayetteville and Macon are filed under a Savannah man, and whether the Wharton charcoal voucher belongs to another file entirely.
- Items marked
[?]are single-reader readings and want a second reader against the image.