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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], The last Confederate prisoner. (search)
ward's report states that in Virginia his subordinate officer's field has been exceedingly difficult, owing particularly to the great impoverishment of the State from the war, the breaking up of every system of labor, and the peculiarly strong depression of the people at its close. The aggregate dependents receiving rations in Virginia at the end of last month was 11.622. More than half of these dependents are in the first and second districts, including Norfolk, Princess Anne, and Prince George counties. In these counties there were necessarily large accumulations of freedmen during the war. Every effort has been made by the assistant commissioner to reduce these collections, and the great majority have had an entire or partial support, as the fruit of their own labor during the summer. Soldiers' wives and families were left behind when the troops were transported from City Point to Texas. As many of these as were willing to go were sent to Texas at the public expens