Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Second Auditor's Office Payment record book, 1861-1866. 448 pp.
Call No.
Mss. BG U38b
Content
This oversized ledger records all payments to field and company officers of Union cavalry, artillery, and infantry regiments from Kentucky during the Civil War. Records are arranged by unit and officer's name; columns record payment received by month and year. The date of each unit's formation and term of service is also recorded. Other entries record the payment of the officers of those Kentucky militia regiments temporarily placed on Federal duty as well as the officers of the 1st Tenn. and Ala. Independent Vidette Cavalry (p. 446). Several entries record post-war payments made to former officers as late as 1891.