Document meas. approx. 7.75 x 6.50 inches and is completely handwritten in both pencil and ink with most of the writing being in ink. The document is a hand drawn ration sheet showing the issue of such things as fresh beef, pork, rice, coffee, sugar, vinegar, candles, soap, salt, soft bread and meal to Company E, of the 7^th South Carolina at Camp Pickens. The rations issued were to last the Company two days from May 5^th to May 7^th 1861. The document is signed at both the top and bottom in pencil by the company commander Captain David Denny and the regimental commander, Colonel Thomas G. Bacon.

Document is completely legible and in good condition.

All that is known about David Deny is that he was born about 1808 and was a Planter by trade. His Company was known as the Mount Willing Guards and was originally part of the 10^th South Carolina Militia. Denny was elected Captain at the organization of Company on April 15, 1861 and resigned after the Company was reorganized on May 13, 1862. Captain Denny’s age is given as one reason for his resignation.

An on-line biography of Colonel Thomas Bacon says he was born on June 24, 1812. He was educated at the Pendleton Classical Institute and served as Clerk of the Edgefield court in 1860. He was a veteran of both the Seminole and Mexican Wars and in March of 1861 he was commissioned Colonel of the 7^th South Carolina being mustered in to the Confederate Army on April 15, 1861. He accidently shot himself in the thigh in March of 1861 and was dropped from the rolls of the 7^th due to failing health. He eventually became Colonel of the 5^th South Carolina State Reserves in 1862 and left in 1863 when he was elected to a seat in the State Senate. After the war he was a businessman and farmer. He died on September 25, 1876 and is buried in Willowbrook Baptist Cemetery in Edgefield, South Carolina.

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