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REMARKS. -In addition to the ordnance and ordnance stores, machinery, &c., enumerated in this report, there was captured and destroyed by the Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, at the arsenal in Fayetteville, N. C., a large quantity of tools, machinery, and materials.
Battle of Averasborough. -One 12-pounder Napoleon gun, one 12-pounder howitzer, one 12-pounder mountain howitzer; total guns and howitzers, three.
RECAPITULATION.
Canon, 97; gun-carriages, 48; caissons and limbers, 43; small-arms, 18,857; cutlasses and sabers, 3,945; accouterments, 1,700; artillery ammunition, 14,105; cartridges, 1,238,440; powder (pounds), 70,850.
Miscellaneous. -Percussion caps, 100,000; musket barrels and stocks, unfinished, 6,000; pikes, 4,000; forges, 2; sponges and rammers, 1,125; blacksmith vises, 20; anvils, 11; artillery harness (sets), 38; saber knots, 700; cavalry-pistol holsters (pairs), 300; saber belts, 800; bayonet scabbards, 4,000; cartridge-boxes (caliber . 54), 2,450; cartridge-boxes (caliber . 69), 1,400; cartridge-boxes (caliber . 58), 300; cartridge-box plates, 3,500; cartridge-box belts and plates, 2,500; waist-belts, 2,900; waist-belt plates, 3,000; ball screws, 2,000; pistol-cartridge boxes, 550; shot-pouches (gunners'), 600; knapsacks, 1,100; haversacks, 900; slow match (yards), 500; 10-inch fuses, 900; wall tents, 8; wedge tents, 50; cartridge paper (tons), 20; signal rockets, 25; engines, 2; boilers, 3; planing machines, 1.
T. G. BAYLOR,
Captain of Ordnance and Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army, Chief of Ordnance, Military Division of the Mississippi.
[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
Report of expenditures of ammunition in the campaign from February 1, 1865 to March 23, 1865.
ARTILLERY.
Rounds.
20-pounder Parott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
12-pounder light gun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,621
3-inch gun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,201
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Total artillery ammunition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,933
SMALL-ARM.
Elongated ball cartridges (caliber . 574). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,223,636
Spencer rifle and carbine cartridges (caliber . 52). . . . 213,448
Henry rifle cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,654
Smith carbine cartridges (caliber . 50). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,000
Sharps carbine cartridges (caliber . 52). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,000
Burnside carbine cartridges (caliber . 54). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,000
Colt army pistol (caliber . 44). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,800
Colt navy pistol (caliber . 36). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,800
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Total small-arm ammunition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,742,338
T. G. BAYLOR,
Captain of Ordnance and Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army, Chief of Ordnance, Military Division of the Mississippi.
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