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An unidentified farmer in Culpeper County, Virginia, kept this 39-page account book between late 1859 and June 21, 1864. Thirty-four pages of ledger entries show a variety of men and women purchasing farm goods such as corn, meal, flour, beef, bacon, and other products. In return, his customers were credited through unspecified, skilled, and unskilled labor; cash; and goods such as farm implements. Laborers, for example, sowed, thrashed, raked, and stacked wheat; mowed; cut oats; and heeled, capped, halfsoled, pegged, nailed, and vamped shoes and boots. At least one entry for shoe repair appears to be for enslaved persons' shoes. The keeper of the accounts also rented out a house and garden for $25.00 per year, to Miss E. Benear in 1861 and French Martin in 1862.

An unidentified farmer in Culpeper County, Virginia, kept this 39-page account book between December 31, 1860, and June 21, 1864. Thirty-four pages of ledger entries show a variety of men and women purchasing farm goods such as corn, meal, flour, beef, bacon, and other products. In return, his customers were credited through unspecified, skilled, and unskilled labor; cash; and goods such as farm implements. Laborers, for example, sowed, thrashed, raked, and stacked wheat; mowed; cut oats; and heeled, capped, halfsoled, pegged, nailed, and vamped shoes and boots. At least one entry for shoe repair appears to be for enslaved persons' shoes. The keeper of the accounts also rented out a house and garden for $25.00 per year, to Miss E. Benear in 1861 and French Martin in 1862.