Creator: Confederate Records (RG 09).

Collection Summary: Correspondence and papers of the Quartermasters of the state of Mississippi and the Army of Mississippi, 1861-1865, documenting the state's procurement of goods and services from merchants, dealers in dry goods, stationers, printers, wholesale grocers, railroad carriers, etc., as well as the outfitting, equipping and transporting of Mississippi soldiers. Included are account statements, invoices, receipts, vouchers and requisitions for forage, along with abstracts, returns and lists of provisions, clothing, equipage, stores and supplies. A limited number of Confederate States Army Quartermaster Department forms and records are found interspersed throughout. Also included are records pertaining to the impressment, sale and purchase of horses for Confederate and state service, 1861-1864.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1861-1865.

Volume: 15.5 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Shaun Stalzer in August 2024.

Related Materials: Series 2973: Quartermaster Account, Letter, & Order Books. 1861-1865

Record Group History: The Confederate records in this record group come from a variety of sources. The bulk of the collection's microfilm consists of copies of service records compiled from original material from the former Confederate states. The Mississippi  Department of Archives and History, under the guidance of Dr. Dunbar Rowland, collected from former veterans and other state citizens as much original material as possible. Typed bound volumes were compiled by this Department from its material and material in the War Department's possession. The act which established the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 1902 provides in section 6: "That the Department is charged with the duty of making special effort to collect data in reference to soldiers from Mississippi in the war between the United States and the Confederate States both from the War Department at Washington and from private individuals, and to cause the same to be prepared for publication as speedily as possible." 

Collection Inventory:
Box Content 

Box Number

Quartermaster, payroll and expense vouchers: 1861-1862348
Quartermaster, payroll and expense vouchers: 1863-1865349
Ordnance, receipts, etc., of M. Lewis Clark, CSA: 1862-1864350
Individual statements of accounts paid to suppliers: 1861351
Individual statements of accounts paid to suppliers: 1862-1863352
Quartermaster, general correspondence: 1861-1865356
Vouchers for forage issued for public and private horses: 1862-1865357
Abstract I and vouchers for stationery issued: 1861-1865358
Abstract K and vouchers for articles issued as special requisitions: 1861-1864358
Abstract L and vouchers for articles expended, lost, destroyed: 1862-1864358
Abstract M and receipts for articles transferred from QM stores: 1861-1864358
Abstract M and returns for clothing, camp, and garrison equipage: 1862-1863358
Abstract N for articles received at Macon, Grenada, and Vaiden: 1863-1864358
Abstract B and individual records: 1861-1865359
Abstract 8, vouchers to purchase on account of subsistence: 1862-1863360
Abstract A, purchases paid for at specific locations: 1861-1864360
Form 1, monthly summary of funds received and disbursed: 1861-1863360
Form 1, return of provisions received and issued: 1861-1865360
Form 2, abstracts of provisions issued (per month): 1862-1865360
Form 2, requisitions for camp equipage: 1862, 1864360
Form 3, requisition for clothing: 1863360
Form 6, monthly summary statements of funds for subsistence: 1862-1864360
Form 8, abstract of purchases made on account of subsistence: 1862-1864360
Form 10, abstract of provisions sold to officers: 1862-1864360
Quartermaster Dept., photocopies of standard forms and reports, sample set360
Return of medical and hospital property received, issued, remaining: 1863360
The Confederate States in account current with Col. Lewis Clark: 1862-1863360
The State of Mississippi in account current with ... : 1981-1865360
Vouchers, receipts, etc., not otherwise sorted: 1861-1862361
Vouchers, receipts, etc., not otherwise sorted: 1861-1862362
Ordnance Dept., correspondence: 1861-1865364
Ordnance Dept., ordnance received: 1861-1865365
Ordnance Dept., requisitions, invoices, shipping vouchers: 1861-1864366
Accounts, current: 1864367
Form 12, voucher for purchases to Abstract A: 1863-1864367
Form 22, voucher, Ordnance Dept.: 1862-1865367
Miscellaneous accounting records: 1861-1864367
Receipts for money provided by the Military Fund: 1861-1864367
Statements of individual accounts: 1862-1864367
Valuation of arms collected: 1861-1865367
Quartermaster correspondence, instructions, and contracts: 1862-1864370
Cards [carts?] distributed: 1864371
Lists of ordnance officers and civilian employees: 1864371
Military personnel and civilian employees: 1861-1864371
Minutes of county meetings about military service: 1863371
Miscellaneous reports: 1861-1865371
Miscellaneous, not otherwise cataloged: 1861-1865371
Ordnance, armament and ammunition reports: 1864371
Ordnance, inventories of armories and other locations: 1862-1865371
Ordnance, return of stores received, issued, transferred: 1861-1865371
Ordnance, rules and regulations for Miss. State Armory and workshops: n.d.371
Payroll data: 1861-1863371
Special orders to ordnance officers and employees: 1862, 1864371
Statement of articles repaired in the field: 1864371
Statement of ordnance and ordnance stores received and issued: 1864371
Quartermaster, payroll and expense vouchers: 1862-1863372
Ordnance, abstract of articles fabricated: 1862373
Ordnance, abstract of articles purchased: 1862, 1864373
Ordnance, abstract of cash sales: 1864373
Ordnance, abstract of disbursements [and/or payments]: 1862-1864373
Ordnance, abstract of expenditures on the Ordnance Dept.: 1861-1864373
Ordnance, abstract of ordnance and ordnance stores consumed, lost, etc: 1863-4373
Ordnance, abstract of ordnance and ordnance stores received: 1864373
Ordnance, abstract of ordnance and ordnance stores transferred to CSA: 1864373
Ordnance, abstract of ordnance stores issued: 1862-1864373
Ordnance, abstract of receipts: 1863-1864373
Ordnance, miscellaneous abstracts: 1864373
Abstract of declaratory statements filed in Land Office: 1862374
Affidavits about destroyed vouchers: 1861374
Auditor's reports: 1861374
Auditor's warrants received, abstract of: 1862-1864374
Boards of survey reports: 1863374
Bonds (for weapons issued): 1861-1862374
Commissioners' "remarks" on accounts: 1861-1862374
Cotton, disposition of: 1861-1862374
Estimate of cost of property for the equipment of the Army of Miss.: 1861374
Estimates for miscellaneous purposes: 1862-1863374
Export and import statistics at New Orleans: 1861374
Governor's orders: 1861, 1863374
Legislative resolutions: 1861374
Miscellaneous notes: n.d.374
Miscellaneous military orders374
Miscellaneous records374
Miscellaneous records from court cases: n.d.374
Newspaper clippings: 1861-1862, 1864374
Powers of attorney for officers and soldiers as special agent: 1861, 1863-64374
Special orders from generals: 1862-1863374
The State of Mississippi in account with the Confederate States: 1861-62, 65374
Abstract A and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract B and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract D and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract E and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract F and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract G and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract J and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract K and related documents (o/s)20035
Abstract M and related documents (o/s)20035
Ordnance Dept., abstracts: 1861-1862, 186420036
Return of camp equipage received and issued: 186120036
Form 12, Quartermaster vouchers for purchases to Abstract A: 1861-186425439
Form 22, vouchers for expenditures (not categorized by expense): 1862-186425440
Form 13, vouchers: 1861-186225441
Form 22, vouchers for transport of freight: 1861-186425441
Invoices on letterhead of vendors: 1861-186525441
Provision returns: 1861-186425441
Railroad way-bills, Miss. Central & miscellaneous lines: 1861-1863, n.d.25441
Railroad way-bills, Southern Railroad Co.: 1861-186325441
Transportation reports: 1861-186425441
Abstract D and vouchers for articles purchased: 1861-186525442
Abstract E and vouchers for articles received from officers: 1861-186525442
Abstract F for fuel issued: 1862, 186425442
Form 22, Quartermaster invoices: 1862-186525442
Form 23, quarterly returns for Quartermaster stores: 1861-186525442
Form 24, receipts for delivery of subsistence stores: 1862-186425442
Acknowledgements for receipts of pay (O/S)25505
Miscellaneous reports from Quartermaster and Ordnance Depts.25505