The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 215
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UNION AUTHORITIES. 215
fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the
expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for
the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such com-
panies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of traveling forges, black-
smiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing,
hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for
shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized
expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to
my other department, twenty million eight hundred and thirty-six thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, five million four hundred
thousand dollars.
For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the Army for the transportation
of themselves and their baggage, when traveling on duty without troops, escorts,
or supplies, one million two hundred and ninety-one thousand six hundred dollars.
For transportation of the Army, including the baggage of the troops when moving,
either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, from the depots
at Philadelphia and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those
depots to the troops in the field; and subsistence from the places of purchase and
from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of
the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small
arms, from foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts,
and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and
hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons,
carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels, and boats required
for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and
cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay
and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the
various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring
water at such posts as, from their situation, require that it be brought from a dis-
tance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and
rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in
the field, forty million dollars.
For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quar-
ters for troops; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores; of grounds
for summer cantonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and
stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, four million two
hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars.
For heating and cooking stoves, ninety thousand dollars.
For maintenance of gun-boat fleet proper, two million one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.
For maintenance of steam rams, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the Army, five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing for the Army, camp and garrison equipage, and for expenses of offices
and arsenals, thirty-nine million three hundred and twenty-two thousand five hun-
dred and thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
For constructing and extending the telegraph for military purposes, and for
expenses in operating the same, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, including pay of private physicians,
purchase and repair of surgical instruments, purchase of extra hospital bedding,
clothing, ice, pay of male citizens as hospital attendants; the maintenance of sick
and wounded soldiers placed in private houses or hospitals; and other necessary
comforts for the sick and convalescing in the various military hospitals, five million
seven hundred and five thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's Department at department
headquarters, two thousand dollars.
For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, three million three hun-
dred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For armament of fortifications, one million sixty-two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seven hundred and thirty-two
thousand dix hundred dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipments for all
mounted troops, seven million three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, one million eight hundred
thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the national armory at
Springfield, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, one million one hundred thousand dollars.
For additions to and extension of shop room, machinery, tools, and fixtures at
arsenals, five hundred thousand dollars.
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