Colonel G. A. Pierce while upon inspection duty transmitted to this office reports of seventeen inspections.

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Colonel W. H. Owen was relived from his assignment as inspector, Quartermaster's Department, February 16, 1865. He made inspections in the Departments of Missouri, Ohio, and the Middle Department. He transmitted to this office sixteen reports.

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Colonel James F. Rusling, inspector, Quartermaster's Department, has made three reports, one of the during the fiscal year, the other two since the 1st of July, 1865.

Those reports are very voluminous, numbering in the aggregate 452 pages.

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During the fiscal year I transmitted to the Quartermaster- General's Office reports of seventeen inspections and investigations, and since the 1st of July, 1865, have added thirty-two to that number-in all, forty-nine.

These inspections and investigations have been made in the Northern Department in Kansas, Missouri, and in the Department of the East.***

In addition ot the inspectors regularly assigned, and whose duties have been briefly stated above, other officers, of the Quartermaster's Department have been temporarily assigned to inspection duty as the necessities of the service required. Particularly since active operations have ceased it has been necessary to call into requisition the service of such, and in many cases the results have been highly satisfactory and productive, of the greatest good in connection with the retrenchment, and reduction of force and expense.

The following list indicates the number of reports rendered by each of the officers who have been thus temporarily assigned during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865:

Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Chandler, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers..................................................9

Captain J. V. Furey, assistant quartermaster of volunteers....3 Colonel S. B. Holabird, aide-de- camp............................1

Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Stokes, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers................................................. 23

Lieutenant Colonel A. L. Thomas, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers................................................ 1

Captain T. R. Dudley, assistant quartermaster of volunteers 1

Lieutenant Colonel C. W. Tolles, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers.................................................. 4

Captain P. T. Turnley, assistant quartermaster, U. S. Army... 1

Captain George P. Webster, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers................................................. 3

Captain M. D. Wickersham, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers................................................. 3

Captain C. H. Deane, assistant quartermaster of volunteers... 1

Captain George Q. White, assistant quartermaster of

volunteers................................................ 1

Captain Charles Worms, assistant quartermaster of volunteers 1

Captain E. D. Chapman, assistant quartermaster of volunteers 8

Lieutenant Colonel G. A. Shallenberger, assistant quartermaster

of volunteers............................................... 1

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Since July 1, 1865:

Bvt. Brigadier General George S. Dodge, assistant quartermaster

of volunteers............................................... 21

Captain H. A. Royce, assistant quartermaster of volunteers.... 3

Captain Newton Flagg, assistant quartermaster of volunteers... 2

Captain T. C. Bowles, assistant quartermaster of volunteers... 1

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Aggregate to October 1...................................... 81