No. 40 Special Requisition

aunt minerva collection
this is a copy of a document, very faint and hard to read, but how awesome is it to get to see something in my great great grandfather's handwriting??? thanks to Kj who helped me decipher some of the words...think we did a pretty good job!


for Quartermaster's Stores for Company A 45th Va Inf Capt. John Thompson
stationed at (can't read) Gap, Va.
quantity required :
shoes 19
46 shirts
drawers 33
jackets 26
pants 44
hats 0
capes 1
socks 0
0vercoats 8
(?) 1
can't read the last 4, qty. 0

I certify that the above Requisition is correct, and that the articles specified are absolutely requisite for the public service, rendered so by the following circumstances, viz.
signed James C Maxwell
1st Lt Co A 45 Va Rg
Capt A Pettyjohn A ? M will issue the articles specified in the above Requistion.
(signed) can't read __________ Col. Commanding

received at Saltville Va to the 31 day of December 1863 of Capt. A. Pettyjohn
Assistant Quartermaster nineteen pair shoes , forty six shirts, thirty three pair of drawers, twenty six jackets, forty one pants, one cape, eight overcoats, and one ?
signed James C Maxwell
1st Lt Co A Va 45th Va Reg't