Name/Title
LedgerEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0004Scope and Content
Commissary Book (name on outer spine) brown leather cover with gold and black embellishments, inside pages are blue with lines for handwritten ledger entries, 12-1/2"W x 18-1/2"H x 2-3/4"D
First entry: "Return of Provisions received and issued at Benicia Arsenal California during the month of July 1853 by Lieut. William Welcker, Ordnance Corps & A.A. C. L."
[A page at the very back contains the same information as page one - it appears the officer may have entered names and amounts in error at the back and rewote them at the front of the ledger.]
Entries end with December 1877 by Capt. M. L. Poland, Ord. Dept.
There are two loose white ledger sheets randomly placed in the book with figures for various items.
There is a one-half inch of unused pages at the back of the ledger.Collection
Benicia Arsenal Collection