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443 Series I Volume XLVII-I Serial 98 - Columbia Part I

Page 443 Chapter LIX. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS.


Numbers 64. Report of Captain Joshua Van Brimer, One hundred and twenty-First Ohio Infantry, Acting Commissary of Subsistence, of operations January 20-March 24.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Goldsborough, N. C., April 3, 1865.

COLONEL: I have the honor to submit, for the information of the general commanding the corps, the following report of the subsistence department of the Fourteenth Army Corps, during the campaign from Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C.:

The troops were supplied at Savannah and Sister's Ferry, Ga., and Fayetteville, N. C., with the following number of Government rations: 250,000 rations of salt meat, 420,000 rations of hard bread, 400,000 rations of sugar, 483,000 rations of coffee, 400,000 rations of salt, 200,000 rations of soap, 150,000 rations of candles, 200,000 rations of pepper. There was taken up from the country passed through 798,000 rations of flour and corn meal, 968,000 rations of fresh beef and salt meat, 735,000 rations of sugar and molasses, with an abundance of all kinds of vegetables, and in addition to the above we had on our arrival at Goldsborough, N. C., about 1,200 head of beef cattle.

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

J. VAN BRIMER,

Captain and Acting Commissary of Subsistence.

Colonel A. C. McCLURG,

Asst. Adjt. General and Chief of Staff, Goldsborough, N. C.


Numbers 65. Report of Captain John E. Remington, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army. Acting Chief Quartermaster, of operations January 20-March 24.

OFFICE OF CHIEF QUARTERMASTER 14TH ARMY CORPS,

Goldsborough, N. C., April 1, 1865.

COLONEL: I have the honor to submit, for the information of the general commanding, the following data of the quartermaster's department during the campaign from Savannah, Ga.:

The following number of animals have been captured during this campaign by the Fourteenth Army Corps: 697 horses and 1,360 mules. During the same period there were abandoned, lost, captured, and died, 331 horses and 569 mules, which leaves a clear gain of 366 horses and 791 mules.

I have the honor also to report that during the same period the animals of this corps consumed the following amount of forage, captured from the country: 2,867,820 pounds corn, 4,055 pounds hay, and 2,730,460 pounds fodder.

Owing to the bad condition of roads during the last portion of the campaign two army wagons broke and had to be abandoned. Eight army wagons, belonging to the First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps supply train, were, on the 20th ultimo, while out after forage, captured.


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