Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-26
NEW SERIES mo. 1881

| she'll 2n heur, or 13 rninutes OF infantry
cartridges there were sent 70, 900, 00S, 1000
or 5000 war rockets and sn immense qusa-
tity OF 6reworks.
For the construction of batteries 920.~
900 sand bags, $4,000 gabions, or bottom
less baskets. The quantity of intSeach-
ing tools, machines, lumber, &c, was en-
ormous. Besides these there were 29o0
| huts complete with stoves, to held each
| 30 men, and 210 huts complete for ssabless
also 10000 frame pieces, 1900 foIstss
100, 900 boards, and 1900 bolts for est2h-
| fishing warming huts. For the subsla-
tence, fuel and forage department.: :f28se
$4,000 pounds biscuit; 4S,630O00 Gours
1890, 900 rice, 6,o70, 900 sugar, 4,738,0a3
coffee; II, ,533 900 salt pork; 81, 10000
salt beef; 3,080,OO gallons wine, besides
| other supplies. For fuel 4, $50 900 pounds
wood; "a, ,00O,700 pit coal. For forage,
| 107, ,287, 800 hay, and 185, ,000, 900 barley
and oats.
Full supplies of clothing were sent out,
including besides regular clothing, .
complete winter suit of cloal1s, CATERS,
| wooden shoes, gloves, stockings, &c. This
men on guard had besides, sheepskin
great-coats and leggins. Camp e9uipase
of every description was supplied, of
which there was tents alone for 100000.
men.
There were hospital stores Of eTerT
kind, including $1,000 bedstesd, $1,000
| wool beds, and about 200 900 pounds
| hospital stores.
The military trains required 2,oa5.
wagons, with full equipments.
| All this immense war material WA
| transported with regularity and without
accident. The minister remarks "The
| transportation of this immense quantity
| of stores would certainly have been i'm
| possible few years ago"
| In concluding these statistics Of the
| French operations, it may be well to chow
| that even with this immense war material
added to that of the rest Of the Allies.
success was only obtained after near
a years constant siege and a loss most
| frightful. The total losses of the army
was SO, ,229 men of the 309, ,268 men sent
| out; over 475, 600 tons of stores were used
of which 6,6Oo, 900 pounds were artillery
powder.
We have no room for as full details Of the
war material furnished by Great Britsi1-
| Though not equal TO that Of France, il wss
immense. The following statement Of Its
artillery Will afford come idea of the mag.
| nitude Of its other shipments.
The British batteries were composed
mostly of "a and 32-pQunder guns, sad 8
and 10 inch bomb, cannon, with s, 10 and
Is inch mortars, in all Gil pieces The
most Of the 8 inch guns weighed $1,000
pounds, though some weighed as heavy as
$4,000. The range of the latter was from
5000 to 5000 yards. They were mostly
landed at Bslaklava, and transported by
railroad distance Of six miles to the En-
glish camp, whence they were hauled with
great labor to the front, over the open fields
or bad roads. The whole number of rounds
fred from the British lotteries during the
siege was 20s,000, OF these about &C, 600
were fired from mortars, and an equal num-
Der from 8 and 10 inch bomb cannon. Some
of the inch guns fired as high as 2, 500
rounds each. The least number Of rounds
fired from the 66-pounders was 5000, and
some as high as 1900 The charge of pow
der was Is pounds.
The results al Vera Cruz achieved by the
American army, demonstrated the ease with
| which military operations can be conducted
By sea. The landing there was effected In
6 few hours, and scarcely any loss resulted,
either TO the men or the horses. Since ths&
period great improvements have been made
Vessels o. increased tonnage have been
built, adapted for tn class Of service, es-
pecially for the transportation Of cavalry
During the war in the Crimea every pos
Bible improvement was made in this respect,
until the facilities were considered perfect
OF the vessels employed by the British Gov
ernment, the screw steamer Himaiays was
regarded the best. She is 5000 tons, 700
horse power, and csn carry $50 horses and
the same number OK men, with subsistence.
Out of 5000 horsea transported by her, bV5
died.
The American vessels, The Great Repub
lie and Monarch of the Seas, were dsemsd
the best horse transports By the Fren5ts
Government The Republic is 8, ,a24 tons
burthen. She has carried 497 horses and
500 men at one trip. Of thse l3 horses died
The Monarch Of the Seas is z, SEQ tons bur
then She carries 800 horses, and out Oh
5000 transported has lost 80. II is oonsid-
sred best, however, &c transport the horses
on sailing vessels TO avoid the heat Of the
engine. The horse IS hoisted into the YES
sci, with his equipments OF, by means Of
steam power, and Immediately lowered to
his berth. de is taken out by the same pro
cess.
THE NEW UNION GENERAL IN KEN
TUCKY.-General Don Carlos Buell., who
has been assigned to the Department of
Kentucky, was detailed by Major Gen
eral Mcclellan to that important post,
at the special request of Gen. Sherman
So that the friends of the latter may rest