James B. McCaw Compiled Service Record, M331, National Archives
Confederate States of America,
SURGEON GENERAL’S OFFICE,
Richmond, Va. July 15, 1863
Sir
Your are informed that the sum of Eighteen ($18) Dollars, amount expended in the purchasing of wood, and rendered in your Accounts Current Hospital fund for the week ending May 4 1863 has been disallowed; being an improper expenditure of that fund.
Your attention is called to Paragraph 958 General Regulations, which states that fuel will be furnished by the Quartermasters Department.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
S. P. Moore
Surg. General
C. S. A.
Surg. J. B. McCaw
Chimborazo Hospital,
Richmond
Va.