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Feeding paroled Confederates. [from the Richmond Dispatch, October 13, 1891.]

An order upon which Sixty-five thousand rations were drawn.

Major Thomas E. Ballard, United States deputy marshal, yesterday showed a Dispatch reporter the original of the following order, which has never been published before, and which was one of the last orders issued by a Confederate officer at Appomattox:

Office Chief commissary, A. N. V., April 11, 1865.
Major Thomas E. Ballard, C. S.:

You will assume the duties of looking to the supplying with food the troops of the Army of Northern Virginia until they shall have been sent off from their present positions. You will also see the C. S.'s of the Federal army as to the arrangement en route for food for the men on the way to their homes. The C. S.'s attached to troops of course must accompany their respective commands.

R. G. Cole, Lieutenant-Colonel.

As Major Ballard replaced the time-worn document tenderly in an equally time-worn pocket-book, he remarked with a smile of satisfaction: ‘And I didn't play small either; I drew from the United States Government for our boys sixty-five thousand rations. I hadn't had anything to eat for so long I was a little greedy.’

Richmond, VA. 1891.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

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Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.