orted to be lost by the burning of a bridge, however, and a number of cars, most of which were loaded with stores, were ordered to be burned.
On June 14th orders were sent to General Bragg, from Richmond, to proceed to Jackson, Mississippi, and temporarily to assume command of the department then under command of General Lovell.
The order concluded as follows:
After General Magruder joins, your further services there may be dispensed with.
The necessity is urgent and absolute. J. Davis.
On application to General Beauregard for the necessary order, he replied:
You can not possibly go. My health does not permit me to remain in charge alone here.
This evening my two physicians were insisting that I should go away for one or two weeks, furnishing me with another certificate for that purpose, and I had concluded to go—intending to see you to-morrow on the subject, and leave you in command.
The certificate of the physicians was as follows:
headquarters, Wes
ollows: the Alabama, $7,050,293.76; the Boston, $400; the Chickamauga, $183,070.73; the Florida, $4,057,--934.69; the Clarence, tender of the Florida, $66,736.10; the Tacony, tender of the Florida, $169,198.81; the Georgia, $431,160.72; the Jefferson Davis, $7,752; the Nashville, $108,433.96; the Retribution, $29,--018.53; the Sallie, $5,540; the Shenandoah, $6,656,838.81; the Sumter, $179,697.67; the Tallahassee, $836,841.83. Total, $19,782,917.60. Miscellaneous, $479,033; increased insurance, $6,146,219.71. Aggregate, $26,408,170.31.
The conference rejected the claims against the Boston, the Jefferson Davis, and the Sallie, and awarded to the United States government $15,500,000 in gold.
But the indirect damages upon the commerce of the United States produced by these cruisers were far beyond the amount of the claims presented to the Geneva Conference.
The number of ships owned in the United States at the commencement of the war, which were subsequently transferred to forei
