Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866
 

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Page 476 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 475 - That the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims shall not extend to any claim against the United States growing out of the destruction or appropriation of, or damage to, property by the Army or Navy engaged in the suppression of the rebellion...
Page 8 - The crossing of the Chattahoochee and breaking of the Augusta road was most handsomely executed by us, and will be studied as an example in the art of war.
Page 605 - River to Fort Negley, with a strong skirmish line, and mass the remainder of his force in its present position, to act according to the exigencies which may arise during these operations.
Page 624 - GENTLEMEN — I have the honor to submit my annual report for the fiscal year ending December 31. 1899. The assessed value of real and personal property returned for taxation is as follows: Real Estate $12,394,298 oo Personal Property.
Page 4 - ARMY OF THE OHIO — MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD COMMANDING. Infantry 11,183 Artillery . ./ 679 Cavalry 1,697 Total 13,559 Guns 28 Grand aggregate number of troops 98,797 Guns. 254 About these figures have been maintained during the campaign, the number of men joining from furlough and hospitals about compensating for the loss in battle and from sickness.
Page 475 - An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the payment of certain demands for quartermaster's stores and subsistence supplies furnished to the Army of the United States...
Page 703 - GENERAL: In compliance with General Orders, No. 39 from your office, I have the honor to report, that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, I was on duty in this city, in charge of the depot of army clothing and equipage, providing supplies for the army.
Page 15 - Waiting there only long enough to fill our wagons, we again began a march which, for peril, labor, and results, will compare with any ever made by an organized army. The floods of the Savannah, the swamps of the Combahee and Edisto, the “high hills...
Page 266 - Quartermaster's department, purchased, captured, -lost, and expended during the fiscal years ending on the 30th of June, 1864, and 30th of June, 1865, so far as shown by the reports received at this office up to the present date. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, BENJ. C. CARD, Colonel, Quartermaster's Department, in charge of Dlnsion. Brevet Major General MC MEIGS, Quartermaster General US Army. •Ч-fîCS (M t...

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