36 Series III Volume V- Serial 126 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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Statement of loaded cars forwarded and received from February 15 to May 1, 1865.
FORWARDED.
From- To- Number. Contents.
Morehead City. Front. 1,841 Stores.
New Berne. do. 850 Do.
Wilmington. do. 110 Do.
Morehead City. do. 400 Troops.
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Total.
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3,201
RECEIVED.
At- From- Number. Contents.
New Berne. Front. 773 Unknown.
Morehead City. do. 299 Do.
Wilmington. Goldsborough. 83 Do.
New Berne. Various 300 Wood.
stations.
Do. Front. 300 Baggage, &c.
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Total.
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1,755
NOTE.-Two hundred cars stores from dock to Morehead City; 1,541 cars construction material moved an average distance of thirty miles.
RECAPITULATIONS.
Sent to the front ....................................... 3,201
Received at New Berne ................................... 1,373
Received at Morehead City ............................... 299
Received at Wilmington .................................. 83
Construction material ................................... 1,541
Transferring stores ..................................... 200
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Total number loaded cars forwarded and received ......... 6,697
The following statement of cost of labor is taken from the pay- rolls and embraces the whole time since the Second Division left Nashville until the Construction Corps was disbanded; that is, from January 1 to May 15, 1865:
Cost of labor on U. S. military railroads, Military Division on the Mississippi, in the Department of North Carolina, 1865.
January. February.
Construction of maintenance $92,083.01 $128,377.00
Machine department. 4,799.69 8,568.86
Transportation department. 5,023.00 5,972.55
Total. 101,905.70 142,919.10
CONTINUATION:
March. April. May.
Construction of $191,131.11 $176,433. $48,028.05
maintenance
86
Machine department. 17,336.07 27,697. 6,431.84
21
Transportation 15,116.98 14,582. 3,423.00
department.
48
Total. 223,584.16 218,713. 57,882.89
55
Total, $745,005.40.
Names of U. S. military railroads, Department of North Carolina.
Miles.
Morehead City and Goldsborough line ........................ 85
Wilmington and Goldsborough line ........................... 95
Goldsborough and Raleigh line .............................. 48
North Carolina, Raleigh to Hillsborough .................... 40
Raleigh and Gaston, Raleigh to Cedar Creek ................. 25
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Total ...................................................... 293
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