AHC, LPG 1/18F/1865

Confederate States of America

No. 3932                                                           Government Transportation

Shipped in good order and condition, by Capt. H. D. Cochran Assistant Quartermaster, Confederate States Army, on the Montgomery & West Point Railroad, at Columbus, Ga., the following Stores, viz:
Date Articles Marks Weight Consignor Consignee Destination
  55 Bundles Cont'g          
  27 1/2 dozen Shovels   1980 Jno. D. Gray & Co W V Allen MSK Selma Ala
          Engr Dept  
  {Signed, but too faint to read}          
 
   The Property of the Confederate States, being marked and numbered as above, and are to be delivered in like good order and condition at Montgomery to the connecting                         Railroad, unto Maj E H Harris Quartermaster, or his assigns, his or their receipt, upon this bill for the same, being required to complete the evidence of delivery.
   In witness whereof, the Agent of said Montgomery & West Point Railroad hath affirmed to four Bills of Lading, all of this tenor and date -- one of which being accomplished, the others to stand void.
   Dated at Columbus, Ga., this 18 day of January 1865 {the date the Montgomery & West Point RR re-opened}
{Signed, but too faint to read} Agent
Montgomery & West Point Railroad Company

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