No. 5.
Confederate States of America, Subsistence Department, Richmond, February 9th, 1865.
Colonel L. B. Northrup, Commissary-General C. S. A.:
Colonel — I respectfully submit the following report of the financial operations of this bureau since January 1st, 1865.
Requisitions have been made for $20,000,000, as follows:
Colonel L. B. Northrup, Commissary-General C. S. A.:
For purchases in Virginia | $4,700,000 00 |
For purchases in North Carolina | 1,600,000 00 |
For purchases in South Carolina | 600,000 00 |
For purchases in Georgia | 6,900,000 00 |
For purchases in Mississippi | 1,250,000 00 |
For purchases in Alabama | 1,000,000 00 |
For purchases in Florida | 280,000 00 |
For Army of Northern Virginia direct | 2,000,000 00 |
Remainder for hospitals, &c., including $600,000 for Camp Lee, for commutation of returned prisoners expected | 1,670,000 00 |
For Major R. Tannahill, Southeastern Virginia | $2,500,000 00 |
For Major R. J. Moses, Georgia | 4,000,000 00 |
For Southwestern Virginia | 2,000,000 00 |
For this Bureau | 1,000,000 00 |
For Major R. W. N. Noland, Northeastern Virginia | 750,000 00 |
For North Carolina | 800,000 00 |
For South Carolina | 800,000 00 |
For Alabama | 900,000 00 |
For Mississippi | 800,000 00 |
For Tennessee (Bristol) | 500,000 00 |
Remainder for hospitals, tobacco and the miscellaneous service of the department | 950,000 00 |
John M. Strother, Captain and A. C. S.
Endorsed:
Bureau of Subsistence, Richmond, February 13, 1865.
This paper is respectfully referred, for the information of the Honorable Secretary of War, in connection with report of the Commissary-General of 9th instant.
(Signed) L. B. Northrup, C. G. S.