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Statement of cannon and small-arms surrendered to the United States from April 8 to December 30, 1865.
date of Report | Where Surrendered | Canon | Small-Arms | remarks |
April 11, 1865 | Army of the James | 263 | 10,000 | Lee's army. |
May 31, 1865 | Army of the Potomac | 251 | 22,633 |
Sept 12, 1865 | Richmond and Petersburg | 175 | |
July 27,165 | Department of North Carolina | 56 | 6,042 | Johnston's army. |
July 25, 1865 | Greensboro, Charlotte, N C | 168 | 8,424 |
May 31,165 | Department of Kentucky | | 99 | Taylor |
Aug 31 1865 | Mt Vernon Arsenal, Ala | 91 | 1,400 |
I)ec 9, 1865 | Macon, Ga | 140 | 28,163 |
Dec 9, 1865 | Selma and Montgomery, Ala | 105 | 353 |
Dec 9, 1865 | Jackson, Miss | 1,235 |
July 27, 1865 | Shreveport, La, and Marshall, Tex | 17 | 4,024 | Smith |
Aug 16, 1865 | Baton Rouge Arsenal, La | 69 | 4400 |
Dec 30, 1865 | Vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss | 143 |
Dec 30, 1865 | Vicksburg Miss | 4 | 595 |
Dec 30, 1863 | Trans-Mississippi Department | 204 |
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. Lee1 | 27,805 |
Army of Tennessee, and others, commanded by General J E Johnston | 31,243 |
General Jeff Thompson's Army of Missouri | 7,978 |
Miscellaneous Paroles, Department of Virginia2 | 9,072 |
Paroled at Cumberland, Maryland, and other stations | 9,377 |
Paroled by General McCook, in Alabama and Florida | 6,428 |
Army of the Department of Alabama, Lieutenant-General R. Taylor | 42,293 |
Army of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General E. K. Smith | 17,686 |
Paroled in the Department of Washington | 3,390 |
Paroled in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas | 13,922 |
Surrendered at Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn | 5,029 |
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Total | 174,223 |
Adjutant-General's office,
January 3, 1881
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: