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Statement of cannon and small-arms surrendered to the United States from April 8 to December 30, 1865.

date of ReportWhere SurrenderedCanonSmall-Armsremarks
April 11, 1865Army of the James26310,000Lee's army.
May 31, 1865Army of the Potomac25122,633
Sept 12, 1865Richmond and Petersburg175
July 27,165Department of North Carolina566,042Johnston's army.
July 25, 1865Greensboro, Charlotte, N C1688,424
May 31,165Department of Kentucky99Taylor
Aug 31 1865Mt Vernon Arsenal, Ala911,400
I)ec 9, 1865Macon, Ga14028,163
Dec 9, 1865Selma and Montgomery, Ala105353
Dec 9, 1865Jackson, Miss1,235
July 27, 1865Shreveport, La, and Marshall, Tex174,024Smith
Aug 16, 1865Baton Rouge Arsenal, La694400
Dec 30, 1865Vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss143
Dec 30, 1865Vicksburg Miss4595
Dec 30, 1863Trans-Mississippi Department204

The records of the Ordnance Office do not show from what general the surrendered arms, etc., were received, except in the case of Johnston's army to General Sherman.

ordnance office, War Department, December 30, 1880.

Extract from a memorandum copy of a consolidated Report of exchanged and paroled prisoners of War during the rebellion, made by the commissary General of prisoners to the Secretary of War, December 6, 1865.

Paroled armies, ‘rebel.’

Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General R. E. Lee127,805
Army of Tennessee, and others, commanded by General J E Johnston31,243
General Jeff Thompson's Army of Missouri7,978
Miscellaneous Paroles, Department of Virginia29,072
Paroled at Cumberland, Maryland, and other stations9,377
Paroled by General McCook, in Alabama and Florida6,428
Army of the Department of Alabama, Lieutenant-General R. Taylor42,293
Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General E. K. Smith17,686
Paroled in the Department of Washington3,390
Paroled in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas13,922
Surrendered at Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn5,029
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Total174,223

Adjutant-General's office, January 3, 1881

General Breck to Author.

War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington. July 29, 1868.
Brevet Brigadier-General Adam Badeau, Headquarters, Armies of the United States, A. D. C. Washington, D. C.:
General: In reply to your communication, of the 24th instant, I have to furnish you the following information, from the ‘Records of Prisoners of War,’ filed in this office:


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