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QUARTERMASTERS' STORES.
Tobacco.................................{caddies...... 14
{boxes........ 11
Tobacco, smoking........................do............. 4
Snuff...................................do............. 214
Tobacco.................................hogsheads..... 2
Hay forks.............................................. 51
Rakes.................................................. 4
Wheel hubs............................................. 130
Felloes................................................ 20
Feed cutter............................................ 1
Circular saw........................................... 1
Iron, assorted..........................pounds......... 65,000
Scales..................................sets........... 2
Waste...................................bales.......... 6
Coal tar................................barrels........ 3
Mail crates............................................ 3
Fanning mill........................................... 1
Corn shellers.......................................... 2
Lumber..................................feet........... 20,000
Grindstones............................................ 5
Clay pipes..............................barrels........ 3
Passenger car.......................................... 1
Lot of material and iron for cars.
Estimated value quartermaster's property, $16,452.00.
SUBSISTENCE STORES.
Bacon...................................boxes.......... 3
Beef....................................barrels........ 47
Vinegar.................................do............. 8
Soap, soft..............................do............. 8
Apples..................................do............. 4
Peaches.................................do............. 2
Salt....................................sacks.......... 1,100
Rice....................................tierces........ 15 1/2
Pork....................................barrels........ 60
Bacon...................................tierces........ 4
Potatoes................................do............. 1
Plug tobacco............................boxes.......... 23
No. 155. Report of Colonel Samuel Harriman, Thirty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, commanding First Brigade.
HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, FIRST DIV., NINTH ARMY CORPS,
April 10, 1865.SIR: In obedience to instructions received from headquarters First Division, Ninth Army Corps, I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by my command in the assault upon the enemy's works on the morning of April 2, 1865:
Between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the 1st instant Bvt. Major General O. B. Willcox ordered a demonstration to be made upon that portion of the enemy's line in the front of this command. Accordingly the troops were put under arms and Lieutenant-Colonel Waite, commanding Twenty-seventh Michigan Volunteers, was ordered to take 200 of his men and assume control of the operation on the picket-line. The Thirty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteers was moved down to the picket-line as a support; the One hundred and ninth New York Volunteers was moved to the rear of Battery Willcox and near the covered way leading to the picket-line to be used in case of an emergency. The picket-line being thus strengthened commenced firing in volleys, accompanied by cheers. Afterward, more fully to develop the strength of
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