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Preferred Citation

Mahone's Brigade Commissary and Civil War documents, 1861-1864. MS 0235. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of documents relating to commissary stores, provisions, and supplies handled by Major P. M. Slaughter, Brigade Commissary, Mahone's Brigade. Other documents include correspondence that relates to the enlistment of Shelton Watts of Amherst County, Virginia in Thomas Kirkpatrick's Battery, and two legal broadsides from the District Court of Confederate States concerning sequestration of property of "alien enemies."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Broadsides (notices)
• Confederate States of America. Army—Supplies and stores
• Correspondence
• Mahone, William, 1826-1895
• United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865