Appended to this report will be found a statistical record of the amount of captures, property destroyed, and casualties. Accompanying it please notice the reports of the chief of artillery, chief engineer, medical director, chief of ordnance, and that of the provost-marshal-general.

Miles marched. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Average per day of whole time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. 19

Average per day of actual marching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. 23

Casualties:

Killed, wounded, and missing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983

Prisoners captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287

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Subsistence stores captured:

Breadstuffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . . . . . . . . 927. 000

Fresh beef. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670. 000

Salt means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797. 000

Sugar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 900

Salt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30. 500

Beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 400

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,428,300

Forage:

Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,867,326

Fodder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 785,721

Ordnance and ordnance stores captured and destroyed:

Pieces of artillery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Gun carriages and caissons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Rifles and muskets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. 929

Cutlasses and sabers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 445

Artillery ammunition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rounds. . . . . . . . . 18. 235

Ammunition for small-arms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 230. 000

Powder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . . . . . . . 70. 350

Property captured:

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 049

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 766

Property destroyed:

Cotton (about). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bales. . . . . . . . . . 15. 000

Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . miles. . . . . . . . . . 42

Cars and engines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Car wheels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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Refugees:

White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984

Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 202

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 186

Wagons and vehicles for refugees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Horses and mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Bridging and corduroying:

Bridges laid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Bridging laid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yards. . . . . . . . 875

Corduroying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yards. . . . . . . . 106

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. O. HOWARD,

Major-General, Commanding.

Major L. M. DAYTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Military Division of the Mississippi.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17, 1865.

MAJOR: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations:

During the rest of sixteen days at Goldsborough, just the length of time promised by the general-in-chief, the army was completely

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