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Appended to this report will be found a statistical record of the amount of captures, property destroyed, and casualties. Accompanying it please notice the reports of the chief of artillery, chief engineer, medical director, chief of ordnance, and that of the provost-marshal-general.
Miles marched. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Average per day of whole time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. 19
Average per day of actual marching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. 23
Casualties:
Killed, wounded, and missing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983
Prisoners captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287
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Subsistence stores captured:
Breadstuffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . . . . . . . . 927. 000
Fresh beef. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670. 000
Salt means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797. 000
Sugar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 900
Salt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30. 500
Beans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 400
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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,428,300
Forage:
Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,867,326
Fodder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 785,721
Ordnance and ordnance stores captured and destroyed:
Pieces of artillery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Gun carriages and caissons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Rifles and muskets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. 929
Cutlasses and sabers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 445
Artillery ammunition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rounds. . . . . . . . . 18. 235
Ammunition for small-arms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 230. 000
Powder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . . . . . . . 70. 350
Property captured:
Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 049
Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 766
Property destroyed:
Cotton (about). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bales. . . . . . . . . . 15. 000
Railroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . miles. . . . . . . . . . 42
Cars and engines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Car wheels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
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Refugees:
White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984
Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 202
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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 186
Wagons and vehicles for refugees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Horses and mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
Bridging and corduroying:
Bridges laid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Bridging laid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yards. . . . . . . . 875
Corduroying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yards. . . . . . . . 106
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General, Commanding.
Major L. M. DAYTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Military Division of the Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17, 1865.
MAJOR: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations:
During the rest of sixteen days at Goldsborough, just the length of time promised by the general-in-chief, the army was completely
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