The document reads as
follows:
(copy)
Assistant
Quartermaster-General’s Office
New York, Oct 28, 1862
To the Sept of the Camden
& Amboy RR Co.
Please furnish transportation
over your road and its connections for üOfficers, Chas Getter &
C. Manituisu 41 – 74 Penn Vol. Two Men, ___ laundresses, ____ servants and ____
horses, with their Baggage and Stores, hence to Philadelphia for which you will
be paid $ ü
for each Officer, $2.00 for each Man, Laundress, or Servant and $ü for each horse, and ü cents per pound, or $ü per car load, for all extra
baggage, upon certificate of of the Officer or Non-commissioned Officer highest
in rank with the command, stating the number of each (officers, enlisted men,
laundresses, servants and horses) for whom transportation may have been
furnished. Also, the quantity (in pounds
or car loads) of baggage and stores. To
be paid for at Government rates of transportation.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
D Stinson
Assistant Quarter Master
(initials of WHB in the
margin)
I certify that
transportation has been furnished, on the above order, from New York to
Philadelphia for ü officers, Two men, ü laundress, ü servants, ühorses, and üü pounds ü car loads baggage and
stores.
A TRUE COPY Signed Tho. J.
Barr, Asst Qr Mr. Signed Chas Manitius
and Charles Tater