Here is a sample of the correspondence from the Confederate Quarter Master General on the issue of pay and clothing for enrolled and or conscripted Confederate male Blacks into the service of the Army.

The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 4 - Volume 3, pg. 716-717

QUARTERMASTER-GENERALS OFFICE,

Richmond, November 5, 1864.

Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War in accordance with his suggestion, with the following draught of the proposed general order:

1. When free negroes are enrolled or slaves are hired or impressed under the act of February 17, 1864, and assigned to service with the bureaus of the War Department, each bureau will pay the negroes so assigned upon the forms and in the same manner as other employees are now paid. The negroes enrolled will be paid $11 a month, and slaves hired or impressed schedule rates, as prescribed by the State commissioners.

2. Each bureau will also provide such negroes and all other employees in its service with the necessary woolen shirts, jackets, and pants, and blankets, overcoats, and shoes. cotton pants, shirts, drawers, socks, and caps will be provided by the Quartermasters Department on requisitions made quarterly, showing the number of the employees to be supplied, and submitted for the approval of the Quartermaster-General. In purchasing these supplies abroad any bureau may avail of the services of the purchasing quartermaster at Nassau or in England.

A. R. LAWTON, Quartermaster- General.