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in these particulars, to develop home resources, and such aid as may be looked for from abroad, through contracts encouraging individual enterprize, a reasonable confidence is felt that a sufficiency of army clothing can be provided, at least for the present year.

These remarks apply equally to camp equipage and miscellaneous stores.

Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)Wm. B. B. Cross, Major.
Issues of Clothing to Armies in the Field.
Jackets. Pants. Shoes. Blankets. Hats &
Caps.
Flannel
Shirts.
Cotton
Shirts.
Drawers. Socks. Overcoats.
General Lee's Command in Virginia:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864, and to Jan'y 21, 1865.
104,199 140,578 167,862 74,851 27,011 21,063 157,727 170,139 146,136 4,861
Army of Southwest Virginia:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864.
3,340 2,500 6,856 4,924 3,230 1,440 13,694 15,475 12,353 1,000
Department of South Carolina, Florida and Georgia—General Hardee:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864.
19,751 21,022 26,376 12,429 500   19,264 20,571 26,719 594
Army of Tennessee:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864.
45,412 102,864 102,558 27,900 45,863   61,860 108,937 55,560
also 7,000 captured by Forrest.
Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864.
21,789 37,661 34,342 4,677 27,292   10,095 3,831 15,458  
Department of North Carolina:
Aggregate amount third and fourth quarters 1864.
21,301 37,774 9,263 6,696 12,751   23,354 22,579 15,059 200