Correspondence, agreements, orders, accounts, reports, returns, receipts, etc., dating mainly from 1859 through 1865.

Concerns the work of Charles B. Johnson as C.S.A. quartermaster’s agent and of Johnson and Grimes as U.S. and C.S.A. contract provisioners to the leased district Indians of the Wichita Agency and also to the Seminole and Osage tribes in northern Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory. Also some personal and business documents of Johnson, and of Johnson and Grimes, dating from 1841. Letters, which also contain local news, and war news and rumors, are chiefly from business partner Marshall Grimes. Other correspondents and Indian and military officials of the C.S.A. Trans-Mississippi Dept. with whom Johnson dealt include Elias Rector, William M. Quesenbury, A.S. Cabell, J.J. Sturm, Matthew Leeper, D.H. Cooper, Thomas Lanigan, John Shirley, and Hickory Rogers.