Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search results

Box 979

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Account book, 1880

 File — Box: 979, Folder: 777.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection is made up of a single ledger used for accounts kept by George Walter Jones (a.k.a. "GW") as well as poetry and speeches presumably written by him in the later part of the nineteenth-century. The front of the ledger is labeled "Cash Account with Confederate States, Maj. G.W. Jones, HQM CSA". George Washington Jones, at the rank of Captain, served as Assistant Quartermaster (AQM) in the 4th Alabama Infantry. His later service included Quartermaster to William Henry...
Dates: 1880