Issues of clothing to armies in the field.

Jackets. Pants. Shoes. Blankets Hats

and

caps.

Aggregate

amount third

and fourth

quarters,

1864, and to

January 21,

1865.

General Lee's

command in

Virginia.

Aggregate 104,199 140,578 167,862 74,851 27,011

amount third

and fourth

quarters, 1864

Army of

Southwest 3,340 2,500 6,856 4,924 3,230

Virginia

Department

South

Carolina,

Florida, and 19,751 21,022 26,376 12,429 500

Georgia,

General

Hardee

Army of 45,412 102,864 a102,558 27,900 45,853

Tennessee

Department

Alabama,

Mississippi, 21,789 37,661 34,342 4,677 27,292

and East

Louisiana.

Department of

North 21,301 37,774 9,263 6,696 12,751

Carolina

Flannel Cotton Drawers. Socks. Overcoa

shirts. shirts. ts.

Aggregate

amount third

and fourth

quarters,

1864, and to

January 21,

1865.

General Lee's

command in

Virginia.

Aggregate 21,063 157,727 170,139 146,136 4,861

amount third

and fourth

quarters, 1864

Army of

Southwest 1,140 13,694 15,475 12,353 1,000

Virginia

Department

South

Carolina,

Florida, and --- 19,264 20,571 26,719 594

Georgia,

General

Hardee

Army of --- 61,860 108,937 55,560 ---

Tennessee

Department

Alabama,

Mississippi, --- 10,059 3,831 15,458 ---

and East

Louisiana.

Department of

North --- 23,354 22,519 15,059 200

Carolina

a Also 7,000 captured by General Forrest.

[JANUARY 28, 29, FEBRUARY 14, and MARCH 5, 1865. -For correspondence between Governor Clark and General Taylor, in regard to calling out the militia of Mississippi and the transfer of State troops to Confederate service, see Series I, VOL. XLIX, Part I, pp. 939, 941, 979, 1029.]

RALEIGH, N. C., January 29, 1865.

His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS:

SIR: It is not be presumed that the press of public duty leaves you much time to read private letters, nevertheless I suppose that should you find a moment's leisure you will not object to hearing the views of your countrymen, however humble, who are struggling managed, you for independence. How this war can be successfully managed, brought to a speedy and Honorable end, bringing us independence, are questions that are upon every tongue. I propose to give you my plan briefly: Declare by law that every soldier who has or not a slave-owner or land-holder, shall receive a bounty or pension at the end of the war, upon being honorably discharged, of one negro slave and fifty acres of land. I will state it thus: We have 3,500,000 slaves. We have probably enrolled 1,000,000 of men. Half these men are slave-owners, leaving 500,000 who do not own them. I would give one slave to each such soldier and fifty acres of land, if he died in the service, to his representatives. Thus you spread the institution. You make every family in the Government interested in it. You do away with the doctrine that this is the rich man's war and the poor man's fight. And if the war is to continue you can make the slaves the very means of our defense-declare by law that all negroes captured from the enemy shall belong to the captors by general orders-declare to the enemy that all who will desert and enlist in our Army, take the

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