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Salt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . . . . . . . . . . 800

Sweet potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 000

Salt meat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 000

Molasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gallons. . . . . . . . . . . 100

Beef cattle:

Captured (estimated weight, 105,400 pounds). . . . . . . . . . . 505

Killed (estimated weight, 80,400 pounds). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

On hand (estimated weight, 25,000 pounds). . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Sheep, twenty head, weight 900 pounds.

SAML. D. CONNER,

First Lieutenant, 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers,

Acting Com. of Subsistence, 1st Brigadier, 2nd Div., 20th Army Corps.

[Inclosure Numbers 2.]


HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, SECOND DIV., 20TH ARMY CORPS,
QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,

Near Goldsborough, N. C., March, 31, 1865.

Lieutenant A. H. W. CREIGH,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, First Brigade:

LIEUTENANT: In compliance with orders I have the honor to submit the following of the amount of forage captured by First Brigade and fed to animals during the March from Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C. ; also, the number of captured horses and mules turned over to me and by me turned over to Captain G. L. Parker, assistant quartermaster, Second Division, Twentieth Army Corps. Grain, 123,075 pounds; fodder, 191,068 pounds; horses, 56; mules, 90.

I certify the above in correct.

O. F. GIBBS,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Quartermaster,

First Brigade, Second Division, Twentieth Army Corps.


HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, SECOND DIV., 20TH ARMY CORPS,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., March 27, 1865.

CAPTAIN: In compliance with orders received I have the honor to forward the following report of prisoners captured from the enemy and the number of rebels dead, buried, in the last campaign: Prisoners captured, 15; rebels dead, buried, none. The prisoners captured were principally deserters from the rebel Army, and were found lurking around their homes by our foraging parties. They were all turned over immediately upon their arrival at these headquarters to Captain Ira B. Seymour, provost-marshal of the division.

Very respectfully,

ARIO PARDEE, JR.,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

Captain W. T. FORBES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, SECOND DIV., 20TH ARMY CORPS,
Near Bladensburg, Md., June 1, 1865.

MAJOR: In compliance with instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this brigade from May 11, 1865, to May 24, 1865, inclusive:

May 11, 1865, the command marched at 5 a. m, passing through Manchester and Richmond, and camped near Brook Creek, on the


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