Leland, George S. Papers, 1862-1864
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: George S. Leland
Title: Papers, 1862-1864
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, see the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 5 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss/A/L537
Scope and Content Note
Leland collection contains various letters, papers, and correspondence related to the duties of a Civil War quartermaster Much of the correspondence concerns requisitions, abstracts, provision estimates, telegrams regarding rations, lists of issues, officer’s complaints, special military orders, public letters dealing with private citizens and property, and invoices of subsistence stores and commissary property Collection also includes a canvas ration conversion chart as well as eight leather-bound issue, or “tally” books that inventory commissary railroad cargo Captain George S Leland was a Union quartermaster in the Department of West Virginia’s Office of Commissary Subsistence at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia .
Biographical Note
Captain George S Leland was a federal army quartermaster in the Union Department of West Virginia’s Office of Commissary Subsistence (CS) His command was stationed at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, from 1862 to 1864
Folder List
Folder 1: Public Letters, September 1862
Folder 2: Abstracts of Issues, Provisions, Vouchers, September 1862
Folder 3: Abstracts of Issues, Provisions, Vouchers, September 1862
Folder 4: Abstracts of Issues, Provisions, Vouchers, September 1862
Folder 5: Estimates, September 1862
Folder 6: Commissary Subsistence Papers, October 1862
Folder 7: Estimates, October 1862
Folder 8: Estimates, October 1862
Folder 9: Estimates, October 1862
Folder 10: Content Cards, October 1862
Folder 11: Beef Orders, October 1862
Folder 12: Stores Received, October 1862
Folder 13: Abstracts of Provisions, Receipts, October 1862
Folder 14: Abstracts of Provisions, Receipts, October 1862
Folder 15: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 16: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 17: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 18: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 19: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 20: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 21: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 22: Receipts of Subsistence Stores, October 1862
Folder 23: Miscellaneous Correspondence, October 1862
Folder 24: Miscellaneous Correspondence, October 1862
Folder 25: Miscellaneous Correspondence, October 1862
Folder 26: Telegrams, October 1862-January 1863
Folder 27: Letters Received, October 1862-January 1863
Folder 28: Vouchers, Abstracts, November 1862
Folder 29: Estimates, November 1862
Folder 30: Public Letters, November 1862
Folder 31: Invoices of Subsistence Stores, November 1862
Folder 32: Invoices of Subsistence Stores, November 1862
Folder 33: Invoices of Subsistence Stores, November 1862
Folder 34: Invoices of Subsistence Stores, November 1862
Folder 35: Miscellaneous Correspondence, November-December 1862
Folder 36: Receipts, Invoices of Commissary Property, December 1862
Folder 37: Abstracts of Contingencies, December 1862
Folder 38: Miscellaneous Correspondence, December 1862
Folder 39: Receipts and Abstracts of Subsistence Stores, December 1862
Folder 40: Receipts and Abstracts of Subsistence Stores, December 1862
Folder 41: Receipts and Abstracts of Subsistence Stores, December 1862
Folder 42: Public Letters, December 1862
Folder 43: Miscellaneous Correspondence, December 1862-January 1863
Folder 44: Miscellaneous Letters, Department of West Virginia, 1863
Folder 45: Public Letters, January 1863
Folder 46: Abstracts of Issues, January 1863
Folder 47: Abstracts of Issues, January 1863
Folder 48: Public Letters, February 1863
Folder 49: Abstracts of Issues, February 1863
Folder 50: Abstracts of Issues, February 1863
Folder 51: Miscellaneous Correspondence, February-April 1863
Folder 52: Miscellaneous Correspondence, February-April 1863
Folder 53: Telegrams Concerning Burnside’s Corps, March 1863
Folder 54: Abstracts of Issues, March 1863
Folder 55: Abstracts of Issues, March 1863
Folder 56: Abstracts of Issues, March 1863
Folder 57: Abstracts of Contingencies for 2 nd Quarter, March-June 1863
Folder 58: Abstracts of Issues, May 1863
Folder 59: Abstracts of Issues, May 1863
Folder 60: Letters and Requisitions, May 1860
Folder 61: Public Letters, May 1861
Folder 62: Public Letters, June 1863
Folder 63: Abstracts of Issues, June 1863
Folder 64: Abstracts of Issues, June 1863
Folder 65: Abstracts of Issues, June 1863
Folder 66: Abstracts of Issues, June 1863
Folder 67: Public Letters, July 1863
Folder 68: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 69: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 70: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 71: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 72: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 73: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 74: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 75: Abstracts of Issues, July 1863
Folder 76: Estimates, July 1863
Folder 77: Estimates, July 1863
Folder 78: Abstracts of Contingencies, July 1863
Folder 79: Abstracts of Issues, August 1863
Folder 80: Abstracts of Issues, August 1863
Folder 81: Abstracts of Issues, August 1863
Folder 82: Abstracts of Issues, August 1863
Folder 83: Commissary Subsistence and Unlabeled Papers, August 1863
Folder 84: Sales to Officers, September 1863
Folder 85: Public Letters, September 1863
Folder 86: Abstracts of Issues, September 1863
Folder 87: Miscellaneous Correspondence, September 1863
Folder 88: Extra Issues, September 1863
Folder 89: 3 rd Quarter Return Vouchers, October 1863
Folder 90: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, October 1863
Folder 91: Abstracts of Issues, November 1863
Folder 92: Abstracts of Issues, November 1863
Folder 93: Abstracts of Issues, November 1863
Folder 94: Abstracts of Issues, November 1863
Folder 95: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, November 1863
Folder 96: Public Letters, December 1863
Folder 97: Abstracts of Issues, January 1864
Folder 98: Abstracts of Issues, January 1864
Folder 99: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, January 1864
Folder 100: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, January 1864
Folder 101: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, January 1864
Folder 102: Money Papers, January 1864
Folder 103: Estimates, January 1864
Folder 104: Transportation Receipts, Beef Orders, February 1864
Folder 105: Public Letters, February 1864
Folder 106: Abstracts of Issues, February 1864
Folder 107: Abstracts of Issues, February 1864
Folder 108: Public Letters, March 1864
Folder 109: Abstracts of Issues, March 1864
Folder 110: Abstracts of Issues, March 1864
Folder 111: Abstracts of Issues, March 1864
Folder 112: Public Letters, April 1864
Folder 113: Money Papers, April 1864
Folder 114: Abstracts of Issues, April 1864
Folder 115: Abstracts of Issues, April 1864
Folder 116: Abstracts of Issues, May 1864
Folder 117: Abstracts of Issues, May 1864
Folder 118: Commissary Subsistence Correspondence, May 1864
Folder 119: Money Papers, May 1864
Folder 120: Public Letters, June 1864
Folder 121: Abstracts of Issues, June 1864
Folder 122: Abstracts of Issues, June 1864
Folder 123: Public Letters, July 1864
Folder 124: Abstracts of Issues, July 1864
Folder 125: Abstracts of Issues, July 1864
Folder 126: Abstracts of Issues, July 1864
Folder 127: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 128: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 129: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 130: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 131: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 132: Abstracts of Issues, August 1864
Folder 133: Invoices, August, 1864
Folder 134: Abstracts of Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 135: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 136: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 137: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 138: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 139: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 140: Receipts for Subsistence Stores, August 1864
Folder 141: Public Letters, August 1864
Folder 142: Public Letters, September 1864
Folder 143: Public Letters, September 1864
Folder 144: Abstracts of Issues, September 1864
Folder 145: Abstracts of Issues, September 1864
Folder 146: Abstracts of Issues, September 1864
Folder 147: Abstracts of Issues, September 1864
Folder 149: Abstracts of Issues, September 1864
Folder 150: Abstracts of Issues, October 1864
Folder 151: Abstracts of Issues, October 1864
Folder 152: Public Letters, October 1864
Folder 153: Abstracts of Issues, November 1864
Folder 154: Abstracts of Issues, November 1864
Folder 155: Public Letters, November 1864
Folder 156: Abstracts of Issues, December 1864
Folder 157: Abstracts of Issues, December 1864
Folder 158: Abstracts of Issues, December 1864
Folder 159: Abstracts of Issues, December 1864
Folder 160: Public Letters, December 1864
Folder 161: Public Letters, December 1864
Folder 162: Miscellaneous Correspondence
Folder 163: Ration Conversion Chart
Folder 164: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 165: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 166: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 167: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 168: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 169: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 170: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Folder 171: Leather-bound issue, or “tally” book, 1862
Subject Headings
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Harpers Ferry (W Va) – History
Leland, George S
Railroads – United States – History – 19th century
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Blockades
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Desertions
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Destruction and pillage
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Equipment and supplies
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Military courts
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Religious aspects
United States Army Quartermaster’s Dept
West Virginia – History – Civil War, 1861-1865
