Supplies Have Been Transferred to in the District of the Etowah
2 pages, 21 1/2 x 17, manuscript in ink. Huge handwritten document being a Monthly Report of Officers to Whom Public Money or Supplies have been transferred to during the month of February 1865 by Officers in the District of the Etowah. Numerous regiments are represented including the 15th Wisconsin, 68th and 44th Indiana, several U.S. Infantry regiments, and others. Signed, Sam. P. Bradford, Capt. 44th Ind. Vols., Q.M. Some small fold splits, overall very fine.
Samuel P. Bradford, was a resident of Lagrange, Indiana, when he enlisted as a private on November 22, 1861, and was mustered into Co. H, 44th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to quartermaster, January 19, 1863; captain, January 11, 1865; and was mustered out of the service, September 14, 1865.
The 44th Indiana Infantry saw action in the capture of Fort Donelson, in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Chattanooga.