The full title is “THE ARMY PAYMASTER’S MANUAL, OR COLLECTION OF OFFICIAL RULES, FOR THE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE OF OFFICERS OF THE PAY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WITH TABLES OF THE MONTHLY PAY, SUBSISTENCE, &C AND OF THE DAILY PAY OF THE ARMY REVISED TO INCLUDE JUNE 30, 1864” compiled under direction of the Paymaster General U.S. Army J. H. Eaton and published by the Government Printing Office in 1864.”

Volume meas. 5.75 x8.00 inches and runs 134 pages.

Manual is hardcover and bound in brown cloth. Covers are stippled with the title embossed in gold on the front. Covers are in excellent condition.

Binding is excellent though the first two blank pages are loose. Interior pages showing light yellowing from age.

First blank page has a nice period ink inscription from the author Major Joseph H. Eaton that reads “MAJ. GEN. E. A. HITCHCOCK, WITH RESPECTS OF, MAJ. J. H. EATON.”

Ethan A. Hitchcock was born in Vergennes, Vt., May 18, 1798.  He was graduated at West Point in 1817 and saw continuous service in the United States army until 1855, when he resigned on account of personal differences with Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war.  He served during this period on frontier duty, as instructor and later commandant at West Point in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War, where he won the brevets of colonel and brigadier-general for gallantry.  At the beginning of the Civil War, he re-entered the army, was made major-general of volunteers and stationed at Washington, where he served on the commission for the exchange of prisoners and on that for the revision of the military code.  He was a warm personal friend and the military adviser of President Lincoln.  After the war he served on the Pacific coast, but resigned in 1867 on account of ill health and died in Sparta, Ga., Aug. 5, 1870 and is buried at West Point.

Joseph H. Eaton was born on October 12, 1815 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was an 1835 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. During the Mexican War he was an aide to General Zachary Taylor and was twice promoted and cited for gallantry, first at the Battle of Monterey and then at the Battle of Buena Vista. Following the Mexican War, he was stationed on the frontier where he painted a series of landscapes in New Mexico in the 1850's. Eaton's paintings are highly sought after by art collectors and museums today and even Eaton's autograph is sold at auction. Among his most important watercolors are Don Fernandez de Taos and Canocito Bonito. During the Civil War he was stationed in Washington D.C. where he was assistant United States Army Paymaster. He was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General in 1865. After the Civil War he was assigned to Oregon where he was the army's Chief Paymaster of the Department of the Columbia until his retirement in 1881. He died in Portland, Oregon on January 20, 1896 and is buried there in Riverview Cemetery.  [ad][ph:L]

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