From January 27, the date of our leaving Savannah, to March 24, when we reached Goldsborough, was fifty-six days. During all this time my command was well fed, and had three days' rations on hand on reaching Goldsborough.

I have carefully compiled the following estimates:

Appropriated from the country for the use of the command:

Corn (over). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds . . . 2,000,000

Corn fodder (over). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 2,000,000

Flour and meal (over). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 240,000

Salt meat (over). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 100,000

Sweet potatoes and other vegetables (over). . . . . . do . . . . . 100,000

Cattle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . head . . . 2,000

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 250

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 600

Hogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 5,000

Sheep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 500

Poultry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . . 50,000

Destroyed:

Railroads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . miles . . 8 1/2

Fence rails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400,000

Cotton mills and gins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Cotton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bales . 4,000

Resin factories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Resin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00

Turpentine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . 150

Flour mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Saw-mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Constructed: Corduroy road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . miles. . 60

Negroes who followed the command (three-fourths of whom were

women and children), about. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

The total number of miles traveled from Savannah to Goldsborough was 435, which divided by 56, the number of days out, give 8 miles daily average. During eleven days in the campaign my command did not March.

Estimating the property appropriated and destroyed by my command at Northern valuation, the total money value would be $2,960,143.

These estimates, both as to quantity and valuation, are rather under than over the mark.

Casualties from January 27, 1865, to March 24, 1865.

Killed Wounded

Severely Slightly

Command Officers Men Officer Men Officer Men

First Brigade . . . . 3 . . . . 3 10 . .

. . . . . .

Second Brigade . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . .

. . . . . . . .

Third Brigade 1 1 . . . . 3 . . . . 1

. . .

Total 1 4 . . . . 7 10 1

. .

Missing

Command Officers Men Aggregate

First Brigade . . . . . 23 40

. . . .

Second Brigade . . . . . 38 39

. . . .

Third Brigade 1 56 62

Total 1 117 141

A nominal list will be found appended. *

To Brevet Brigadier-Generals Barnum and Pardee, commanding my Third and First Brigades, and to Colonel Mindil, commanding my Second Brigade, I take pleasure in tendering my thanks for their valuable co-operation throughout the campaign.

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*Omitted.

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