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The Accounts of the Auditing Board are housed in three archival boxes and are arranged in chronological order by date of action (i.e. allowed or rejected). Included are vouchers, receipts, reports, and a limited amount of correspondence documenting the settlement of accounts of the Ordnance Department, Quartermaster's Department, and militia by the Auditing Board during the Civil War. The correspondence in this collection is usually addressed to George W. Munford, President of the Auditing Board. In addition, there is correspondence from both Col. L.R. Smoot, Quartermaster General, & Charles Dimmock and J.S. Shriver, Colonels of Ordnance. The accounts comprise the bulk of the collection and are endorsed by the Auditing Board as to whether the account was allowed or rejected. The accounts were often certified by J. Bell Bigger, Clerk of the Auditing Board. The collection also contains accounts allowed but not called for between 1861 and 1862. Lastly, there is a copy of the ordinance adopted on 27 April 1861 by the Convention of Virginia creating a Board of Claims, a.k.a Auditing Board, under George W. Munford, John R. Tucker, & Jonathan M. Bennett to settle all the claims for expenditures arising from the organization , equipment, & support of the land & naval forces of the Commonwealth. Note that there are other additional collections related to the settlement of similar accounts by the Auditing Board. These include the records of the Ordnance Dept. (Acc.# 38943) and the Records of the Quartermaster's Dept. (Acc.# 39386). Both collections should be consulted when researching the settlement of Commonwealth's accounts during the Civil War.