Title: Wisconsin. Quartermaster Corps: Financial Records and Accounts
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1900

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Quartermaster Corps

Call Number: Series 1165

Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 3 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Financial records of clothing and equipment provided to Wisconsin soldiers, primarily during the Civil War, 1861-1862. Included are a daybook, journal, and ledgers; receipts, vouchers, and invoices: an inventory of supplies in the Military Store; special requisitions for equipment not regularly issued; and other records.

Language: English

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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.

	General Account books Note: Formerly Series 37/2/7.
Volume   1	Day Book, 1861-1863
Volume   2	Journal, 1861-1864
Volume   3	Ledger, 1861-1864
Box   1	Receipts, vouchers, and invoices, 1861-1871 Note: Was Series 1169, 37/2/23.
Box   2	Abstracts of accounts of clothing and equipment purchased, 1861-1862 Note: Was Series 1163, 37/2/5.
Box   3 Folder   1	Cash book, 1862-1863 Note: Was Series 1167, 37/2/11.
Box   3 Folder   2	Memorandum book, 1861-1862 Note: Was Series 1166, 37/2/10.
	Miscellaneous files, 1861-1899 Note: Was Series 1170, 37/2/14.
Box   3 Folder   3	Abandoned property, 1863
Box   3 Folder   4	Abstract numbers of duplicate bills, 1861-1862
Box   3 Folder   5	Bids and proposals, 1861
Box   3 Folder   6	Bills, 1861-1891
Box   3 Folder   7	Inventory of property of the Milwaukee Light Guard, 1868
Box   3 Folder   8	Invoice of subsistence stores, 1865
Box   3 Folder   9	Ledger sheets, 1861
Box   3 Folder   10	Meals provided to soldiers in transit, 1862-1866 Note: Was Series 1197, 37/2/43.
Box   3 Folder   11	Miscellany
Box   3 Folder   12	Passenger transportation bills, 1885-1886
Box   3 Folder   13	Proposals and specifications, 1899
Box   3 Folder   14	Provision returns for 14th Regiment, 1861 Note: Was Series 1198, 37/2/44.
Box   3 Folder   15	Third Regiment returned equipment, 1865
Box   3 Folder   16	Articles Expended, Lost, Destroyed, and Sold at Camp Douglas, Major C. R. Williams, 1900
Box   3 Folder   17	Purchase record (CG and QMG), 1861-1862 Note: Was Series 1164, 37/2/6.
Box   4	Special requisitions, 1861, 1883-1889 Note: Was Series 1168, 37/2/12.