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Captured and destroyed by the left wing, at Milledgeville, Georgia.

2300 rifle muskets, calibre, 69; 5000 lances, 1500 cutlasses, 30,000 [37] rounds of small-arm ammunition, 5470 rounds of artillery ammunition, 20,000 pounds of powder.

Captured in Fort McAllister, Beautiere, Rose Dew, Bartow, Thunderbolt, Jackson, Lee, Boggs, Brown, Water Battery, opposite Fort Jackson, Lanton Battery, in the lines around the city of Savannah, and in the city of Savannah:

Artillery.--167 smooth-bore guns, 35 rifled guns, 7 mortars; total number of guns, 209.

Artillery Carriages.--76 barbette, 1 casemate, 6 siege, 41 field; total number of carriages, 124.

Artillery Ammunition.--19,843 for smooth-bore guns, 1903 for rifled guns, 17 for mortars; total number of rounds of artillery ammunition, 21,763.

Small Arms.--183 various kinds.

Infantry Ammunition.--8000 musket cartridges, calibre, 59 ; 7500 musket buck and ball cartridges, calibre, 69; 11,000 elongated ball cartridges, calibre, 57; 3000 Sharpe's rifle; 18,000 rifled iron ball, calibre, 52; 4000 buck and ball cartridges, calibre, 75. Total infantry ammunition, 51,500.

Expenditures of Ammunition during the Campaign.

Artillery Ammunition.--2099 pounds for 3-inch gun, 1218 pounds for light 12-pound gun, 30 pounds for 30-pound Parrott gun, 229 pounds for 20-pound Parrott gun ; total artillery ammunition, 3576.

Small Arm Ammunition.--950,915 elongated ball cartridges, calibre, 57; 141,396 Spencer rifle cartridges, 56,000 Burnside carbine cartridges, 62,000 Sharpe's carbine cartridges, 21,000 Smith's carbine cartridges, 8600 Colt's army pistol cartridges, 4800 Colt's navy pistol cartridges, 500 Henry rifle cartridges; total small-arm ammunition, 1,245,211.

T. G. Baylor, Captain and Chief of Ordnance, M. D.M.

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