The general accounting ledgers are a set of three volumes: a daybook, journal, and ledgers which include bills on the Paymaster General and Governor for services, board, equipment, clothing, and supplies. The day book shows date, name of claimant, service or article purchased, quantity, cost, the dates the bill was filed and paid, and usually the individual or military unit for whom the expenditure was made. Entries are cross referenced to the corresponding page in the journal. The journal show name of payee, date of bill, item for which the expenditure was made, the date the bill was filed, the amount, and the account to which the expenditure was charged. Entries are cross referenced to the ledger, which lists accounts for clothing, equipment, arms, camps, regiments, and recruiting. In addition, there is a box of receipts, audited vouchers, and invoices mainly 1861 and mainly referring to transactions recorded in the general books. Also included is a record of cash transactions and a memorandum book for services and supplies ordered which includes a list of orders on the Paymaster General, new audited bills, and an inventory of supplies in the Military Store. The volume described as the “Purchase Record” includes the notations of the W.W. Tredway during a period when he functioned as both Quartermaster General and Commissary General. Included are records of purchases of food, kitchen equipment, clothing, and quartermaster supplies and some newspaper clippings of official notices of proposals for the supply of rations, clothing, and equipment. The special requisitions are forms requesting equipment not issued as regular equipment. The forms include information on the items and the reason for the requisition certified by the regimental commander.
