1358 Series I Volume XLII-III Serial 89 - Richmond-Fort Fisher Part III
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Abstract from tri-monthly return of the Department of Richmond, Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell commanding, for December 30, 1864.
Present for duty.
Command Officers Men Effective Aggregate
total present
present
Tennessee 56 495 569 713
brigade
Local Defense 68 562 655 742
Brigade
Barton's 91 1.061 1.130 1.414
command
Second 16 122 149 202
Battalion
Virginia
Reserves
Total 231 2.240 2.503 3.071
Gary's brigade 64 1.197 1.465 1.701
Richmond 60 1.146 1.258 1.430
Artillery
Defenses
Ninth Georgia 18 402 426 456
Battalion
Artillery
Total 78 1.548 1.684 1.886
Grand total 373 4.985 5.652 6.658
Prisoners
Command Aggregate Officers Men
present
and absent
Tennessee 1.627 49 484
brigade
Local Defense 2.746 ..... ......
Brigade
Barton's 3.911 2 26
command
Second 807 1 .....
Battalion
Virginia
Reserves
Total 9.091 52 510
Gary's brigade 3.492 20 354
Richmond 3.386 3 1
Artillery
Defenses
Ninth Georgia 632 3 48
Battalion
Artillery
Total 4.018 6 49
Grand total 16.601 78 913
WILMINGTON, December 31, 1864.
Honorable J. A. SEDDON,
Richmond:
Most of the cargo of the Fry will be saved. Vessel will be lost.
BRAXTON BRAGG.
WILMINGTON, December 31, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel W. H. TAYLOR,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Petersburg:
All is perfectly quiet. Nothing as yet heard of the enemy's fleet.
BRAXTON BRAGG.
WILMINGTON, December 31, 1864.
Colonel JOHN B. SALE,
Military Secretary, Richmond, Va.:
In the emergency now upon us we have three resources: Emancipation and the negro, a faithful and efficient execution of the conscript law, and the large en employed army in the Trans-Mississippi. The first would be fatal, the next has been to long and fatally postponed, the last is available, only requiring tact, energy, and will. If the East is lost, the West must follow; if the East is save, the West can be redeemed. Use this for our cause.
BRAXTON BRAGG.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Wilmington, December 31, 1864.Major Ben. W. H. C. WHITING,
Commanding Third Military District, Wilmington:
GENERAL: After considering your communication of 30th instant in all its bearings and aspects, the commanding general sees no reason
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