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Here's what I have on Wayland:

William L. Wayland. Appointed acting Assistant Quartermaster (A.A.Q.M.) as 2nd Lieutenant of Company “F” [February 1,] 1862. Appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster (A.Q.M.) [July 11, 1862,] to rank June 18, 1862. Wounded at Gaines Mill, Virginia, June 27, 1862. Dropped from the rolls for failure to execute bond on October 25, 1862, [but remained on duty until December 1, 1862]. Later appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company “K”, 9th Alabama Cavalry Regiment.

I don't understand the bonding process, but can say that all quartermasters were required to post a satisfactory bond. The same may have been true of commissaries. Regimental commanders needed a regularly commissioned quartermaster available to insure regular issues of clothing, equipment and pay. The quartermaster department would not issue any of the above to an officer who was not bonded. Quartermasters had a specific period of time in which to produce evidence of a bond. Once the time ran out, the only recourse was for the regimental commander to appoint someone else as acting A.Q.M., submit their nomination to the Q.M. department, and hope they could post bond.

In any case, posting bond was a matter of having the right signatures on a respectable-looking sheet of paper. Wayland may have had arrangements with the officers you mentioned, but was unable to get their signatures due to circumstances beyond his control. His wasn't the only A.Q.M. who lost his job for this reason. Congress eventually abolished the post of regimental Q.M. in the summer of 1864.

Wish I could offer more information.....

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