The book includes records of payments received for bacon, beef, sugar, oats, tobacco, wheat, and other products, and of payments made for items such as buttons, boots, butter, apples, coal, and confectioneries, and for labor, such as sewing and farm work.
Some entries refer to slave hires and cash given to slaves for corn, tobacco, coal, and extra work.
Entries in 1863 record work done by slaves on fortifications. There are occasional records of payments for dental procedures, and a few notes in the front of the volume on predicting weather, horse breeding, and growing fruit trees. Confederate States of America. Received from an anonymous donor in May 1941. Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.