Scope and Contents This series consists of bound cash volumes of first entry kept by the Master of Transportation's Office. Varying in format, they each contain the same information. Volume 1, Ringgold Agency, 1852, 1855, records: (1) date, (2) account number, (3) claimant's name, (4) description of the transaction, (5) whether debited or credited, and (6) dollar amount. Volumes 2 and 3, 1858-1861 and 1856-1864 respectively, used the left-hand page to record debits and the right-hand page to record credits....

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume of accounts, created in the Motive Power Division, which records the costs of repairing and maintaining the Western and Atlantic's locomotives. Each page is devoted to a separate engine with columns for: (1) date of repair, (2) labor performed, (3) amount of labor costs, (4) materials used, and (5) amount of material costs. To be found within this volume is the service pulled on the "General", the "Texas" and other similar, if not as famous, locomotive...

Scope and Contents This series consists of the bound copies of outgoing correspondence created by the Master of Transportation. To be found within this correspondence is the: (1) day-to-day activities of the trains, passengers and freight, (2) schedules and crews, (3) specific rate questions, (4) supervision of the General Freight Agent and the General Ticket Agent, (5) establishment of general rates to shippers, (6) interpretation of rates, (7) rate exemption for intra-road traffic, (8) issuance of rules to...

Scope and Contents This series consists of a bound volume containing the record of bills from suppliers doing business with the Motive Power Division of the Western & Atlantic. Listed in this volume is a recording of the: (1) date, (2) supplier's or manufacturer's name, (3) types of supplies or services bought, and (4) total cost. This volume contains valuable information not only on the type of goods and services purchased, but also the costs in transporting certain items from their point of origin to...

Scope and Contents This series consists of unbound records of the stations on the Western & Atlantic. Included are "time rolls" (payroll records), receipts and principally correspondence treating: (1) freight claims on losses, damages or overcharges, (2) notices of "passed bills" for agents, (3) ticket sales, and (4) record-keeping and reporting to Atlanta. This series is more a sampling than a comprehensive source of the history of the agencies. These records may be used in conjunction with the...

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This series consists of unbound discrete, ephemeral records. They are primarily important for their visual values and secondarily for their evidentiary values of the operational functions of the railroad.

Scope and Contents This series consists of originals and copies of the incoming correspondence of the Superintendent. Among the subjects addressed are: balances due other railroads, contracts for rented goods, debts for cords of wood from various station agents, requests for rate information, annexed transcripts of payrolls, inventory of State articles in possession of the Western & Atlantic, real estate conveyances, requests for special travel passes, and a resolution confirming the acceptance of a new...

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This series consists of unbound court cases, legal documents, agreements, contracts and ordinances. The files are dissimilar in format and in origin but share a common purpose for legal reference. These cases include only a partial sample of all the cases to which the Western and Atlantic was a party.

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This series consists of unbound records too miniscule in number to include in new and separate series.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound annual reports of the officers of the Western & Atlantic Railroad to the Superintendent and that officer's major summaries of those reports. The reports contain a textual narrative followed by accounting and statistical reports. The information generally includes commentary about the physical condition of the: roadbed, culverts, bridging, cross-ties, wood and water supply, rails, locomotives and rolling stock, relations with connecting railroads, and the...

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound outgoing correspondence of the Superintendent. Much of the correspondence deals with: cultivation of new business, missed contract opportunities, efforts to recover lost freight or passenger traffic, sale of salvage or worn-out equipment, and negotiation with Federal sources for replacement equipment. In addition, the records provide information on: rates and charges, cooperation with connecting railroads, competition between "remote rival cities for trade", and...

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This series consists of a bound specification and order book used by the Superintendent acting as purchasing agent for the railroad. The volume lists: the type, number, quality, cost, and source of supplies, hardware or goods. A typical entry reads' "One (1) dozen Spittoons No. 3 $17.00 black, by express C.O.D to", p. 95. Some of the goods, especially capital equipment, appears to be for the purpose of replacing materials and equipment lost or damaged during the Civil War.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound ledgers maintained by various station agents or their clerks. Typically, the ledgers include: transaction date, debit column, credit column, amount, and totals. The series is incomplete for all agencies along the line and not all the volumes are identifiable by external evidence. In the back of Volume 4, 1856, Ringgold, is a freight register listing: car number, owner, date of list, destination, types of articles, mark (name), consignor, consignee, weight, and...

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound cash journals from the Treasurer's Office. The information in the journals remained the same through the years but with further definition of classes and major revisions of the format. The first form includes: date, folio number, transaction, a single column indicating "cr" for credit and "dr" or "d" for debit, amount, and total. The form changed to include debit columns for the: payor, purpose of debit, amount, sub-total, and page total. The credit columns...

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This series consists of the "information record" created in the writing of checks of the Treasurer. Each stub contains the date, the warrant number (which is not consistently included), the payee or purpose of the check and the amount. The check book is dilapidated, but the stubs are in good physical condition and legible.

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound and unbound records of single disbursements, certifications and acknowledgements made on a daily basis initially by the Disbursing Agent, then the Superintendent and finally the Treasurer. The two volumes, although titled differently, are the same in format and function. They record: payee's name, date, description of the transaction, rate per unit of goods and services, and dollar amount. The Superintendent signed the form to certify the bill and the payee also...

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This series consists of various unbound papers too minuscule in number to include in new and separate series.

Scope and Contents This series consists of a small booklet containing the receipts of funds from the Passage Clerk for cash received from conductors and ticket sales. There are two entries per page and they list: numerical amount of receipt in the upper left hand corner, person's name from whom the money was received, amount of money received written in long hand, where the money came from, for what period the money was received, and treasurer's signature. The entries were made usually within the first two...

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound subsidiary cash receipt journals which supplemented the recording of receipts in the Treasurer's Cash Journals. No credits or funds disbursed are included. The books are formatted to include: date, "to cash received" from a source, passage, freight or mail, agents, miscellany, railroad expenses, construction costs, charge accounts, and total. The journals were used only during the period of State operation. At the back of the 1863-65 volume is a packet...