Payment for Woman Washing Clothes at 5th Pennsylvania Reserves Hospital

Item MED-10195

Description

Original Civil War Document written in period ink.

Camp Pierpont
October 25th 1861

Hospital of 5th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves

To washing 75 articles of clothing by Mary Cashman at 6 cents each $4.50

I certify that above bill is correct.

E. Donnelly, M.D.
Assistant Surgeon
5th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves

Received October 26th 1861 of Samuel Evans, Quartermaster, 5th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, four dollars and fifty cents in full for above bill.

Witness present
Rupert George

Mary Cashman
[by her mark]

Assistant Surgeon Edward Donnelly
Wounded, Mechanicsville, VA
Captured, 2nd Manassas
Captured, Wilderness
Confined at Libby Prison