1862 March 2 Fort Donelson, Tenn

Head Quarters Dist of West. Tenn.
Ft. Donelson, March 2nd 1862

Capt Baxter
Asst. Quartermaster U.S.A.
Please furnish for
use of these Head Quarters ten pounds
Wax[?] Candles.
By order of
Major Genl Grant
Jno A. Rawlins

We have no candles and Capt Leland ACS will
please furnish as above
A S Baxter AQM
pr Rudd

docketed
Sales to Officers
March 2 1862
$1.60


John A. Rawlins, 1831-1869, a friend and confidant of Ulysses Grant rose through the ranks with him , eventually becoming a Brigadier General and Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters of the U. S. Army. He later served briefly as Grant's Secretary of War until his death from tuberculosis early in Grant's administration.

Capt Baxter: possibly the Quartermaster Baxter later cited by Lew Wallace as the man who brought him controversial orders during the battle of Shiloh

MSS 10645