Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-15
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The Pay master General reports that during
the fiscal year ending June 3d. 1895, $7.S39.22
AZ were paid to the regular army, while $780,
73S,635 95 were paid to volunteers, and that the
tot IL disbursements since June 80, 1864, TO the
date of his report, amount iu the aggregate to
$524O5494637. Payments amountingto to $780,
100000 have been made to about 500 900 mus
tered out troops. The highest number of addi-
tional paymasters in service during the fiscal
year was 447; the number now in service is 80.
All the troops retained in service have been
paid to June 30, 1865, and many organizations
to August 81, 1860. and TO all discharged troops
in full TO date of discharge. The anticipated
payments of boaHties to aud three months addi-
tional pay TO officers mustered out that has fall
len due by reason of mustet out amount to
$9l, 10000. The whole sum disbursed by the
Pay Department since the commencement ofthe
war, viz: FROM July I, 1861, to July !, 1865,
amounts to Sl,029, $4,000 The total losses
and defalcatIons during the same period, if
nothing should be recovered, amount to the sum
of $54l 000, and it is believed that not less than
half of this amount will be recovered. The to-
total expenses of disbursements including all
pay and allowances, Communication of quarters,
fuel, and travelling expenees, for four years and
four months amount TO sc, ,429 600: Thus it is
seen that the costs of disbursement to armies in
the field and amid all the hazards of unexam-
pied war and including all losses and expenses,
are less than three -fourths of one per cent.
oUARTERMAsTER's s DEPARTMENT.
The report of the Quartermaste General con-
tains statement of the operations and expendi-
lures of the department under his control dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1866
The principal movement of troops by the Quar-
termaster's Department during that time are de-
scribed. They have been made promptly and
with few accidents and are striking illustrations
of improvements in the art of war which have
teen developed during the late contest. The
twenty third army corps, after fighting at
Nashville, in the midst of ice and snow in De-
cembeT, 1864, on the conclusion of the campaign
in the West, transferred from the valley of the
Tennessee to the banks of the Potomac, moving
by river and rail down the Tennessee, up the
Ohio, across the snOw-covered Alleghanies, a
distance of ], 400 miles, and in the short space
of eleven days was encamped on the banks of
banks of the Potomac, then blocked up with the
ice ofa most severe winter. Vessels were col
lectedto meet this corps, the obstacles interpos-
ed by the ice were overcome, and early in Feb
ruary the troops composing it were fighting be-
fore Wilmington, on the coast of n orth Carolina
The transfer of the eleventh and twelfth corps,
under Gen. Hooker, 1868, from the Potomac to
Tennessee is the only prrallel to this movement.
That was an unexampled operation at the time.
Gen. Hooker's command conia n ed % 900 men,
and was accompanied by its artillery and trains
baggage and animals, and accomplished the dis
tance from the Rapidan, in Virginia, to Steven
son, in Alabama, distance of 1872 miles, in
seven days, crossing the Ohio RIVER twice. The
twenty-third army corps moved 5000 strong.
The vessels in the employ of the Department
have been 700 in number, and only three of
these have been lost. During the year over
mn bUs shol of md Nm nm Snne Of
hay have been provided by the depots of the
Quartermasters department: $4,000 cords of
wood and $4,000 tons of coal have also been
supplied by the depots. Troops in the field
have supplied themselves with fuel from the
forests in which they have operated. The de-
pots of the Quartermaster's Department have
during the wsr, furnished the army with 23,-
100000 shells of corn, 78,0O0000 bushels of
oats, $4,000 bushels of barley, 100000 tons of
hay, 10000 tons of straw, 550,000 cords of wood,
and l,600O00 tons of coal, all of which have
been purchased, measured, transported, issued
and accounted for by its officers and agents.
There were purchased during the fiscal year
ltl ,632 cavalry horses; from September 1st
1864, TO June 30th, 1865, 207l4 artillery horses;
and from lst July, 1864, to 30th June 1865,
4S S16 mules. Prices of horses varied during
the year from $l44 to $l85; of mules, from
$40 to $l95.
The burial records of the Quartermaster's
Department, which do not include the names of
those who fell in battle and were buried imrne-
diately on the field by their comrades, show the
interment in cemeteries of ll6,I48 persons, of
whom 98,S27 were loyal, 1885 dsloyal and of
whom 95,SO3 were whites and 20345 colored
persons.
There have been sold since The close of the
war l28,840 horses and mules, $9,000000 worth
of clothing $500 buildings $l000,0 900 worth of
harness, wagons, etc., 2S3 locomotives, 5000
cars, 588 boats on western rivers, AGO vessels Of
the ocean fleet. Over LOO miles of military
railroad, operated for the department by 23709
workmen and agents, at a monthly cost of ST.
100000, have been restored to their former own
els, and the number of persons employed in
completing the accounts, in taking care of and
dispOsing Of the railroad property not yet sold
or transferred, has been reduced to less than
400, the rest having been discharged. The
Cavalry Bureau has discharged nearly 1000 of
its employees. In all. S3887 persons, employed
on wages, had been discharged from the service
of the Quartermaster's Department at the end OF
September, 1865, reducing its expenses per
month S4,066093.