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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 44: the lack of food and the prices in the Confederacy. (search)
et20.00 Sherry35.00 Liquors, per Drink. French brandy3.00 Rye whiskey2.00 Apple brandy2.00 Malt Liquors, per Bottle. Porter12.00 Ale12.00 Ale, one-half bottle6.00 Cigars. Fine Havana1.00 Game of all kinds in season. Terrapins served up in every style. Bill for a dinner for nine poor Confederates at the Oriental, January 17, 1864. Soup for nine$13 50Brought forward$132 50 Venison steak31 50Apples12 00 Fried potatoes9 005 bottles of Madeira250 00 Seven birds24 006 bottles of claret120 00 Baked potatoes9 00Urn cocktail65 00 Celery13 50Jelly20 00 Bread and butter14 00Cake20 00 Coffee18 001 dozen cigars12 00 $1132 50$631 50 Approximate value of gold and Confederate currency from January 1, 1862, to April 12, 1865. Date.Gold.Currency. January 1, 1862$100$120 December 20, 1862100300 December 20, 18631001,700 January 1, 18641001,800 December 20, 186410002,800 January 1, 18651003400 February 1, 18651005,000 March 1, 18651004,700 April 10, 18651005,500
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. (search)
In his Memoir, p. 112, General Early says that his losses at Cedar Creek were about 1860 in killed and wounded and something over 1000 prisoners. Colonel B. W. Crowninshield, who was provost-marshal of Sheridan's command, says in his Cedar Creek, that he had on his books, record of 7000 unwounded prisoners who were soldiers, and Colonel E. B. Parsons, who succeeded Crowninshield as provost-marshal, reported about 13,000 Confederate prisoners received by him from August 1st, 1864, to March 1st, 1865. This statement is denied by General Early, who says ( Memoir, p. 118): My loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, at Winchester and Fisher's Hill, had been less than 4000, and, at Cedar Creek, about 3000, but the enemy has attempted to magnify it to a much larger figure, claiming as prisoners several thousand more than my entire loss. How he makes out his estimate is not for me to explain. . . I know that a number of prisoners fell into the enemy's hands who did not belong to my comm
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
e emancipation and enlistment of the negroes, expressing a belief that they would make good soldiers; but the selfishness and the fear of the slaveholders opposed him. The wretched management of the Commissary Department, under Northrup, who was unlawfully kept at the head of it by Davis, because he was a willing instrument in his hands for every cruel work that was to be done, had not only caused immense numbers of desertions from the Army, it was officially reported at about the first of March, 1865, that the number of deserters from the Confederate armies was about 100,000. the author of the Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (Mr. Swinton), says, on the authority of General Johnston, that two main armies of the Confederacy showed four men on their rolls to one in their ranks. because of inadequate and unwholesome subsistence, but the villainous way in which, by imprisonment and otherwise, the producers were robbed by the agents of that man, had caused wide-spread discontent
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
breastworks, and a friendly country, with shortening lines of supplies, that his real force was greater than Grant's. According to Lee's field-returns on the 28th of February, 1865, he had 73,849 men present, of whom 59,094 were present for duty, exclusive of the local militia of Richmond. When Lee reached Petersburg, owing to recruits from the South and elsewhere, he had more men with him than at the beginning of the campaign. The records of the War Department show that on the first of March, 1865, the muster-rolls of the army exhibited an aggregate force of 965,591 men, of whom 602,593 were present for duty, and 132,538 were on detached service. The aggregate force was increased, by the first of May, by enlistments, to the, number of 1,000,516, of all arms, officers and men. The whole number of men called into the service during the war, was 2,656,553. The Provost-Marshal-General, James B. Fry, reported that the aggregate quotas charged against the several States, under al
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
L. Davis.   Cotton, 154 bales, and 5 hogsheads sugar 33,901 53 7,916 89 25,984 64 Springfield May 19, 1864 Conestoga.   Cotton, 6 bales 1,444 97 140 13 1,304 84 do Jan. 6, 1865 Pittsburg.   Cotton, 10 bales 2,202 48 168 86 2,033 62 do Mar. 1, 1865 Osage, Choctaw, Champion, Fort Hindman.   Cotton, 3 bales Waiting for prize lists of the Juliet, Great Western and Rattler. 334 56 107 35 227 21 do   Juliet, Great Western, Rattler.   Cotton, 4 bales Waiting for prize list of the Lbales 3,124 78 203 31 2,921 47 do Nov. 26, 1864 Kenwood.   Cotton, 3 bales and 2 pieces of bales 657 30 115 83 541 47 do May 19, 1864 Tuscumbia.   Cotton, 2,129 bales, 28 barrels molasses, 18 bales wool 465,234 95 13,732 79 451,502 16 do Mar. 1, 1865 Black Hawk, Eastport, Lafavette, Neosha, Ozark, Choctaw, Osage, Chillicothe, Louisville, Carondelet, Fort Hindman, Benton, Pittsburg, Mound City, Essex, Lexington, Ouachita, Cricket, Gazelle, General Price, W. H. Brown. [718 bales of cotton
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
enate, on the eighteenth, proceeded to the consideration of the bill, and Mr. Cowan moved to amend the proviso so as to leave the subject to future adjustment between the Government and the railroads. After debate, in which Mr. Sherman, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Howard, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Cowan, Mr. Henderson, and Mr. Grimes participated, the proviso and amendment were informally passed over. Mr. Wilson moved to amend the bill by adding as a new section, That from and after the first day of March, 1865, and during the continuance of the rebellion, the commutation price of officers' subsistence should be fifty cents per ration; but the increase should not apply to the commutation price of the rations of any officer above the rank of brevet brigadier-general, or of any officer entitled to commutation for fuel or quarters; and the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Wilson then moved to amend by adding as a new section: That thereafter, during the continuance of the rebellion, there should
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), General officers of the Confederate Army: a full roster compiled from the official records (search)
1. Buford, Abraham, Sept. 2, 1862. Branch, L. O. B., Nov. 16, 1861. Brandon, Wm. L., June 18, 1864. Bratton, John, May 6, 1864. Brevard, T. W., Mar. 22, 1865. Bryan, Goode, Aug. 29, 1863. Cabell, Wm. A., Jan. 20, 1863. Campbell, A. W., Mar. 1, 1865. Cantey, James, Jan. 8, 1863. Capers, Ellison, Mar. 1, 1865. Carroll, Wm. H., Oct. 26, 1861. Chalmers, J. R., Feb. 13, 1862. Chestnut, J., Jr. , April 23, 1864. Clark, Charles, May 22, 1861. Clark, John B., Mar. 8, 1864. Clanton, J. H.Mar. 1, 1865. Carroll, Wm. H., Oct. 26, 1861. Chalmers, J. R., Feb. 13, 1862. Chestnut, J., Jr. , April 23, 1864. Clark, Charles, May 22, 1861. Clark, John B., Mar. 8, 1864. Clanton, J. H., Nov. 16, 1863. Clingman, T. L., May 17, 1862. Cobb, T. R. R., Nov. 1, 1862. Cockrell, F. M., July 18, 1863. Cocke, P. St. G., Oct. 2l, 1861. Colston, R. E., Dec. 24, 1861. Cook, Philip, Aug. 5, 1864. Cooke, John R., Nov. 1, 1862. Cooper, D. H., May 2, 1863. Colquitt, A. H., Sept. 1, 1862. Corse, M. D., Nov. 1, 1862. Cosby, Geo. B., Jan. 20, 1863. Cumming, Alfred, Oct. 29, 1862. Daniel, Junius, Sept. 1, 1862. Davidson, H. B., Aug. 18, 1863. Davis, Wm. G. M., Nov. 4, 1862. Davis,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division. (search)
ers, varied from 3,000 to 8,000, and was principally composed of local malitia. The few small earth-works which defended it, were poorly provided with guns, and had no permanent garrisons. The fortifications of Washington were numerous and powerful, fully armed and manned, and the garrison probably never fell below 25,000. The only accurate returns of its forces which I can find (besides the figures given above,) are for May 1st, 1864, when there were present for duty 42,124, and for March 1st, 1865, when although there was no Confederate force north of Richmond to threaten its safety, the garrison numbered 26,056. Report of Secretary of War, 1865. These figures do not include the garrison of Baltimore which seems to have always been several thousands. As the blockade of the Potomac by the Evansport batteries was, of course, quietly given up when the army withdrew from Centreville, there was no trouble upon that score, but upon the other two heads McClellan seemed himself to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cannon, William 1809-1865 (search)
Cannon, William 1809-1865 Patriot; born in Bridgeville, Del., in 1809; was a member of the Peace Congress in 1861, and it was said that he was the firm friend of the Crittenden Compromise and of an unbroken union. In 1864 he became governor of Delaware, and during his incumbency was opposed by the legislature. On one occasion when that body denounced a certain law of Congress he proclaimed that any United States officer found guilty by a State court for performing his duty to the government should receive his pardon. He advised the legislature in his message of 1864 to adopt measures for the liberation of slaves in Delaware. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 1, 1865.
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
the Santee River or towards Manchester, or even to Camden, as may become most judicious, in view of known movements of the enemy. In case of a retrograde movement before the enemy, you will please remove or destroy all supplies of every kind liable to fall into his hands, in which connection I enclose General Orders No. 4, A. and I. G. Office. Respectfully, General, your obedient servant, G. T. Beauregard. Headquarters, Military division of the West, Charlotte, N. C., March 1st, 1865. Lieut.-Genl. W. J. Hardee, Cheraw, S. C.: General,—Your letter of the 27th ult. has been received. My letter of the 26th covers all the points submitted by you. The enemy moving to the eastward, your forces will no longer be required here; you will therefore act as already instructed. It is of the utmost importance that he should not get any of the surplus stores and supplies at Cheraw; they should be destroyed, as well as the rolling-stock of those railroads, sooner than fall in
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