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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Resources of the Confederacy in February, 1865. (search)
to the currency and the subsistence of the army. (Signed) L. B. Northrup, C. G. S. Bureau of Subsistence, Richmond, February 12th, 1865. No. 3. Statement of meat en route to Richmond.   rations. From Charleston, through blockade:   2,018 cans meats, 72 pounds, 145,296290,592  1,105 barrels pork, 200 pounds, 221,000663,000  439 tierces beef, 304 pounds, 133,456266,912  49 casks bacon, 600 pounds, 29,40088,200 From Georgia:   60,000 pounds bacon180,000 From Weldon, North Carolina: This bacon was received under contract for delivery of cotton in exchange. Considerable receipts are expected from this source if cotton be promptly furnished and transportation for same provided.   80,000 pounds bacon240,000 At Greensboroa:   4,000 pounds pork12,000  500 boxes, 36,000 pounds, meat72,000 At Richmond:   30,000 pounds pork90,000 En route from interior:   25,000 pounds pork75,000      1,977,704 From Georgia, contingent upon communications
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
ns, p. 358), says 8,000 men in all, but this seems, on Investigation, an over-estimate. consisting of his own and Kautz's divisions, was dispatched to destroy the Weldon road farther to the south, and thence, by a wide sweep to the west, to cut the Southside and Danville roads. The Second corps, now commanded by Birney — for Hanco beat down the guard of the slender rapier, which so often pierced the joints of the giant armor. By the end of August, Grant was firmly established across the Weldon road — a line of communication important, indeed, to Lee, but not absolutely necessary. Yet was it not yielded without much desperate fighting, as was witnessed atch, August 26th, 1864. In these four engagements, the enemy acknowledge a loss of above 7,000 men, and there is reason to believe that the occupation of the Weldon road during this month cost them between 8,000 and 9,000 men. The Confederate loss was not above one-fourth of that number. This estimate is based on a careful