Scope and Content: As head of the Pay Bureau and in charge of paymasters appointed pursuant to St 1863, c 254, the paymaster general was responsible for administering and recording all business pertaining to the payment of state bounties to military personnel during the Civil War.  The first several pages of this account book document daily receipts and disbursements of Gilbert R. Thornton, paymaster, with entries from June to Nov. 1864.  The balance of the book details payments on rolls of James F. B. Marshall, paymaster general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by payroll date
Notes: Bureau.; Cover title: Accounts with paymaster
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