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Numbers 58. Statement of property captured or destroyed by the enemy during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865.*

RECAPITULATION.

CLOTHING, CAMP AND GARRISON EQUIPAGE.++

Total value reported..........................$48,649.21

RECAPITULATION OF QUARTERMASTER'S STORES.+

Total value reported.........................$140,828,76

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Total clothing, camp and garrison equipage.... 48,649.21

Total quartermaster's stores.................. 140,477.76

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Grand total................................ 189,477.97

NOTE. This statement is compiled from the annual reports of officers for the past fiscal year. The estimated value is inserted as far as stated, but it does not show the full value of the property by at least one-third of the amount reported.

In addition to t he above statement Brevet Major-General Donaldson reports the total loss and destruction of public property in the Department of the Cumberland during the past year by fire, by freshet, captured, abandoned, or destroyed, to prevent its failing into the of the rebels, at &3,500,000.


Numbers 59. Summary statement of transportation furnished during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865.

TRANSPORTATION ORDERS OR SINGLE PASSAGES.

Kind of Officers and Soldiers on Prisoners of

transportation. men under furlough. war.

orders.

Railroads 1.557.655 169.969 80.351

Steam-boats, barges, 207.369 15.900 24.247

&c.

Stages 5.840 473 1

Wagons 1.412 ........ 16

Ocean and lake 44.387 48 1.930

Total not owned or 1.816.663 186.390 106.545

run by Government

Railroads 589.034 10 13.162

Steam-boats, 896.669 14.706 109.986

barges,&c.

Ocean and lake 73.644 ...... 27.000

Total owned or run 1.559.347 14.716 150.148

by Government

Grant total 3.376.010 201.106 256.693

Kind of Civilians. Total.

transportation.

Railroads 71.392 1.879.367

Steam-boats, barges, 21.136 289.652

&c.

Stages 99 6.413

Wagons 1 1.429

Ocean and lake 2.500 48.865

Total not owned or 95.128 2.204.726

run by Government

Railroads 16.986 619.192

Steam-boats, 36.515 1.057.876

barges,&c.

Ocean and lake ....... 100.644

Total owned or run 53.501 1.77.712

by Government

Grant total 148.629 3.982.438

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*Omitted, except the "Recapitulation." See Executive Document Numbers 1, referred to in foot-note (*) p. 249.

+Details omitted.

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