Capt. C. L. Pitcher, Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, served as post commissary at various places in the Trans-Mississippi Department, including Dardanelle, Arkansas. At the end of the war, he was the post commissary at Marshall, Texas. His parole gives his place of residence as Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

Post commissary officers relied on soldiers detailed from line regiments, as well as civilian contractors and employees, to perform the "pick and shovel" work of their departments, such as making barrels, herding and butchering cattle, driving wagons, etc.