From the Claiborne Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society, Mss1c5217a 69-70. Typescript by Michael D. Gorman, September 2004

Chimborazo Hospital
Office of Surgn in Chief
Jany 9th/62

Sir

I have the honor of transmitting to you a Duplicate Statement of the Hospital Fund at Chimborazo from Octo. 11th 1861 to Jany 1st 1862 the original of which has been forwarded to the Surgeon General in compliance with the Army Regulations.

I am now prepared to exhibit vouchers in support of the various items of said Statement and for that reason, am thus particular in calling your attention to the account. I desire to relieve my self from any pecuniary responsibility that might possibly attach to me by deferring the examination to a distant day, when from the loss or misplacing of important papers, the correctness of the Statement might not so easily verified.

Respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
J.B. McCaw Surg in chge
Chimborazo Hospitals

Cap. H. A. Claiborne
Assist. Commissary
C.S.A.

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(Duplicate)

Statement of the Hospital Fund at Chimborazo, from Octo 11th 1861, when organized, to January 1st 1862

To cash for flour, sold by Surgn

   

1653.

75

"    "   "   Tallows, suet, beef &c  "      "    

   

338.

81

"   "    " Rations Commuted by Commissary

   

4140.

82

By the following provisions

   

6133.

58

purchased for use of Hospl

       

By Cash for Bread & Biscuits

2240.

25

   

  "      "    Sweet & ??? potatoes

284.

40

   

  "      "    Miscellaneous Vegetables

462.

80

   

  "      "    Chickens

176.

31

   

  "      "    Eggs

138.

03

   

  "      "    Sugar

169.

28

   

  "      "    Molasses

489.

65

   

  "      "    Milk

257.

62

   

  "      "    Butter

128.

40

   

  "      "    Spittoons

117.

60

   

  "      "    Dried Fruit

85.

90

   

  "      "    Herrings

144.

25

   

  "      "    Brooms

43.

70

   

  "      "    Lamps

46.

25

   

  "      "    Postage Stamps

20.

00

   

  "      "    Extra Wages to Stewards

193.

00

   

  "      "    Bugle

25.

00

   

  "      "    Check to Cap Claiborne

       

               overpaid

27.

50

   

  "      "    Sundries (including

   

5459.

94

  "      "    Washing bills, Clock &c

309.

93

673.

44

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