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.  Relationship of this letterbook to other Paymaster General records is unclear.  The volume contains handwritten copies of letters of J.W. Fairfield, federal acting assistant paymaster, mostly from on board the U.S.S. Keystone State.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Provenance of this item is most uncertain
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