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0,000 and 33,000 rounds. There was not more than 300 rounds fired on an average per day, which would make 13.500 rounds altogether, then placing the amount of ammunition blown up by the enemy's shells at 5,000 rounds (a very extravagant estimate,) we would have a total of 18,500 rounds expended leaving a balance of 12,000 rounds, and, unless they were destroyed, they must certainly have been surrendered to Grant. To sustain my assertion, I would say that the brigades of Vaughn. Moore and Herbert, to my personal knowledge, from official report, had enough ammunition to have lasted them several days' constant fighting. The musket cartridges at the commencement of the siege, field at the Ordnance Department, exclusive of those in the soldiers cartridge boxes, were from official statements estimated at 300,000. The boxes of the men contained at least thirty rounds each, and the force of the men was supposed to be 18,000 effective making about 540,000 rounds, and a total of nearly