Title: Wisconsin. Secretary of State: Paymaster General's Miscellaneous Records
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1862

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Secretary of State

Call Number: Series 251

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 volume)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Miscellaneous records of the Paymaster General deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. The office of the Paymaster General was officially closed in July, 1862, at which time its responsibilities were assumed by the federal government; any unfinished business of the Paymaster General was taken over by the state Quartermaster General. Included are correspondence, records of amounts owed to various claimants, stoppages of officers' salary, vouchers for disbursements for transportation of furloughed soldiers, price estimates of supplies, abstracts of payments to state surgeons, and a ledger of receipts and disbursements. The latter item was probably prepared for the claim Wisconsin submitted to the federal government for its expenditures during the Civil War. It records the name of the payee, the voucher number, the date, and the amount of payment.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser00251

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Acquisition Information

Includes former Series 295 (2/3/5/27-3); Series 301 (was Series 2/3/5/27-12). Series 251 was once numbered 2/3/4/2-14.

Box   1 Folder   1	Abstract of pay to state surgeons, 1861-1862
Box   1 Folder   2	Amounts due officers who deserted before being paid, 14th Infantry, 1861
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence to Paymaster General, 1861-1862
Box   1 Folder   4	Miscellaneous correspondence
Box   1 Folder   5-8	Correspondence about money owed by the Paymaster General to various claimants Note: Was 2/3/5/27-12.
Box   1 Folder   9	List of officers commissioned and orders to pay officers listed, 1861-1862 Note: Was 2/3/5/27-12.
Box   1 Folder   10	Price estimates by the Paymaster General
Volume   1	Register of receipts and expenditures, May, 1861-July, 1862
	Stoppages of Salary
Box   1 Folder   11-16	1st-7th regiments
Box   2 Folder   1-12	8th-18th regiments, Artillery
Box   2 Folder   13	Vouchers for disbursements made to railroads and steamships for transportation of furloughed soldiers