at Louisville on the 4th of July to proceed with him to the headquarters at Saint Louis.

The above report is respectfully submitted.

M. C. GARBER,

Colonel and Chief Quartermaster, Mil. Div. of the Mississippi, in Field.

Bvt. Major General M. C. MEIGS,

Quartermaster-General, Washington, D. C.

ADDENDA.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 25, 1865.

Colonel M. C. GARBER,

Quartermaster's Department:

DEAR SIR: I take pleasure in recalling the valuable service you rendered me and the army during our eventful march from Savannah to Goldsborough and thence to Raleigh and Washington, and to express my great confidence in your business qualifications and ability. I hope you will enjoy health and prospertity and live long to enjoy the peace and security you aided to establish for a common country.

I am, truly, your friend,

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General.

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Report of Asst. Surg. David L. Huntington, U. S. Armies, Acting Medical Director Army of the Tennessee.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Goldsborough, N. C., March 26, 1865.

GENERAL: I have the hono rto submit a brief report of the operations of the medical department of the Army of the Tennessee during the campaign commencing with the departure of the army from Pocotaligo and ending in the occupation of the town of Goldsborough:

It was not without anxiety that I looked forward to the development of this campaign. The season of the year, the character of the country, and the personal hostility of the citizens all rendered it extremely probable that sickness and large losses would test to the utmost the resources of the medical department of the army. The result of the campaign and the comparatively small loss of life from disease or the efforts of the enemy is a source of gratification. The army left Pocotaligo unencumbered with sick or wounded, all such cases being left in the U. S. general hospitals at Savannah and Beaufort. Full supplies were drawn and were replenished at Columbia, S. C. Notwithstanding the bad weather, bad roads, and the necessary exposure of the campaign, the raio per 1,000 of men unfit for duty during the campaign has been but 49.26. At no time have we been seriously pressed for accommodation for our sick and wounded. After the affair at Rivers' Bridge, S. C., we were enabled to send to the rear many of the sick and wounded on hand, and again at Fayetteville, N. C., 150 were sent by transports to Wilmington, N. C. The country has furnished a large abundance of nutritious food, and the appearance of the men does not indicate suffering on that account. The hardships of the march have wearied them, and a period of rest is imperatively needed. The heaviest engagement of the campaign fortunaely occurred so near the termination of the march as to give us no inconvenience in the removal of the wounded. Our loss in wounded on that occasvison has been made for the sick and wounded in this