Quartermaster Ledger

[rginn]

These are kinda cool. These are a couple of pages from CSA Quartermaster William Patton's ledger which shows issues to my great-great-grandfather Absolem Roseberry and his brother Charles. Looks like Charles got the better deal. They were enlisted in the 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CO F. A couple of months after this they said hell with it and went home.

 

[Montana Jim]

The hand writting is and was exquisite... and yet the expected norm for even a grade school-er. Today a kid can graduate collage and not even know how to write cursive.

Those ledger entries are great and would display nicely behind some relics!

 

[rginn]

Yeah, it's pretty writin, MJ. But not by my family. I actually saw my Grandpa Ginn sign his name 'X' many times because he couldn't read nor write English. Pretty cool that I can, though.