CONFEDERATE STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT LETTER — SECOND AUDITOR'S OFFICE — DECEASED PRIVATE'S PAY CERTIFICATE, 4TH VIRGINIA CAVALRY

CONFEDERATE STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT LETTER — SECOND AUDITOR'S OFFICE — DECEASED PRIVATE'S PAY CERTIFICATE, 4TH VIRGINIA CAVALRY

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Treasury Department C.S.A.

Second Auditor's Office

Richmond Va April 24th 1863

 

Mr F.L. Brockett Atty &c

Second Auditor's Office

Sir

I have this day handed you Certificate No 482[?], for the sum of $107.80 being the amount found due Caius M. Shelton deceased private of Capt Hobson's Co "F" 4th Regt Va Cavalry, for from April 1st 1862 the date of his enlistment to October 2nd 1862 the date of his death inclusive. 6 months and 2 days @ 10$ per month, 74$ for use & risk of horse for 185 days @ 40 cents per day, and 25$ commutation for 6 months clothing less 4$ stoppages. The Certificate was payable to your order as Atty for Mary M. Shelton Administratrix of said deceased.

Very Respectfully

Yr obt Servt

W.H.S. Taylor

Auditor

 

DESCRIPTION:

A one-page manuscript letter on lined stationery, docketed at top "DETAILED ACCT. MONEY DUE DECEASED PRIVATE C.S.A.," written from the Second Auditor's Office of the Confederate Treasury Department in Richmond and addressed to attorney F.L. Brockett. The letter documents the settlement of the estate of Private Caius M. Shelton of Captain Hobson's Company F, 4th Virginia Cavalry, who died October 2, 1862, roughly six months after his April 1, 1862 enlistment. The certificate itemizes back pay, an allowance for use and risk of the private's own horse (a standard practice in Confederate cavalry regiments, which unlike Federal cavalry required troopers to furnish their own mounts), and a clothing commutation, less stoppages — totaling $107.80, payable to Brockett as attorney for Mary M. Shelton, administratrix of the deceased soldier's estate.

The 4th Virginia Cavalry served in the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry corps and saw extensive action throughout 1862, including the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days, and the Maryland Campaign — any of which may account for Shelton's death, though the cause is not stated in this document.

Old ink notation "54TH VA CAV" at top appears to be a later archival misreading of the regiment (correctly the 4th Virginia Cavalry, not the 54th).

CONDITION: Expected folds, light toning and edge wear, small separation along one horizontal fold, otherwise legible and complete.    [ss][ph:L]

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