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Supplies indispensably required at Fort Yuma for command of 1,600 (independent of its garrison) for a period of ninety days, exclusive of beef six days in the week, to be driven on the hoof or purchased en route.
Pounds.
Pork for 1,600 men 13 weeks once a week is
1,200 per week equal to.......................15,600
Flour for 1,600 men for 91 days, 1 pound
per man daily................................145,600
Sugar for 1,600 men for 91 days, full
rations.......................................22,000
Coffee for 1,600 men for 91 days, full
rations.......................................14,500
Salt for 1,600 men for 91 days, not full
ration.........................................5,000
Vinegar for 1,600 men for 91 days, not full
ration.........................................5,000
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Total weight of provisions...................207,700
Some rice for sick not included; also a few candles.
Ammunition: Pounds.
210,000 rounds musket and carbine for 1,400 men,
150 rounds each...............................20,370
40,000 rounds Colt's revolver..................1,200
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Total weight small ammunition.................21,570
Hospital stores, total weight..................6,000
Tools: Pounds.
100 spades.......................................450
100 handaxes.....................................600
100 handpicks....................................650
Hatchets.........................................200
100 shovels......................................550
2 crowbars......................................50
Small tools......................................500
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3,000
100 extra ax-helves.
100 extra pick-helves, to be supplied but no included in above weight.
Clothing: Pounds.
3,200 pairs stockings...........................900
1,500 blouses, including packages.............2,000
1,500 pairs pants, including packages.........3,030
3,000 pairs bootes............................9,120
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15,050
Horseshoes, muleshoes, nails, &c..............3,000
Tents: Pounds.
1 hospitals.....................................400
3 servants......................................100
2 Sibley........................................260
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760
Pemmican, 10 days' rations for 1,600 men, at
10 ounches each...............................10,000
Ammunition, &c., for artillery, not including
that carried in caissons.......................8,928
Field and staff, baggage, &c., books,
records, &c....................................1,250
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287,258
150 wagons required for nearly 144 tons, of 2,000 pounds each.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., December 20, 1861.Notes of forage required at Fort Yuma.
An advance train of 50 wagons to go up the river 90 miles, up and back, 9 days in advance of main movement. -
Pounds.
Will carry of barley.........................150,000
Will consume of barley........................22,500
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Will leave on deposit........................127,500
Pounds.
150 wagons to same point with main movement will carry above- named supplies and 1,000 pounds
each of barley...............................150,000
425 cavalry horses (men on foot) will take each
100 pounds....................................42,500
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192,500
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