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light. Captain Munson, Seventy-eighth Ohio, this division inspector, was of important service in accompanying the mounted Twentieth Illinois in their continual reconnaissances and scouts. Colonel C. Fairchild, Sixteenth Wisconsin, commanding First Brigade, and Colonel G. F. Wiles, commanding Second Brigade, had their commands at all times thoroughly in hand and displayed marked ability and zeal. The Twentieth Illinois, under command of Captain Henry King, small remnant of a gallant regiment, serving as a mounted escort company, continually employed skirmishing at the front or scouting on the flank, performed valuable service wholly out of proportion to their numbers. The entire command, officers and men, entered with such zeal into every undertaking, and bore with such cheerfulness every hardship, that I almost seemed a spectator of a machine that worked itself.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

M. F. FORCE,

Brigadier-General, Commanding Division.

Captain C. CADLE, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.]

Abstract of work accomplished.

SUBSISTENCE OBTAINED.

Sweet potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds . . . . . 60,000

Corn meal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . 100,000

Cured meat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . 200,000

Molasses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gallons . . . . 150

Sugar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . barrels . . . . 8

Salt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . 15

Coffee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . 1

Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bushels . . . . 7,000

SUBSISTENCE EXPENDED.

Issued to stock:

Salt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . barrels . . . . 10

Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bushels . . . . . . 7,000

Issued to refugees and indigent citizens:

Corn meal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds . . . . . . . 5,000

Cured meat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . . 1,000

The rest of the above was issued to the troops.

Captured:

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Killed:

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Issued and turned over:

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Captured: Wagons and other vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Turned over and destroyed: Wagons and other vehicles. . . 100

Captured at Fayetteville: Steam boats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Destroyed:

Cotton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bales . . 500

Resin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . barrels . . . 500

Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . miles. . . . . 20

Culverts and small trestles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Trestle railroad bridge (of ten bents). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Saw-mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Prepared lumber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . feet . . . . . 60,000


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