VHS 1/9/1862

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. 11^th 1861 to Jany 1^st 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 11^th 1861, when organized, to January 1^st 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