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all the districts, three hundred and seventy in 

 number, had been discharged, and but thirty- 

 three provost-marshals were in the service, all 

 of whom, it was supposed, could soon be dis- 

 pensed with. 



The following statement exhibits the opera- 

 tions of the Paymaster General's Department : 



Balance in hands of paymasters and unissued 

 requisitions in the Treasury at the beginning of 

 fiscal year (July 1, 1864) , ' 



Eeceived from the treasury during the fiscal year 

 (including unissued requisitions in treasury on 

 June 30,1865) 337,200,000 



Eeceived by paymasters from other sources, ex- 

 clusive of sums transferred among themselves, 6,815,187 



Total to be accounted for $430,054,946 



Accounted for as follows : 



Disbursements to the regular army ... 7,839,225 



Disbursements to the Military Academy 153,099 



Disbursements to the volunteers 300,733,635 



Total disbursements $308,730,960 



Amount of unissued requisitions in the treasury 



on June 30, 1865 65,900,000 



Balance actually in hands of paymasters on Juno 



80, 1865 55,423,985 



Total $430,054,946 



Since the commencement of the current fiscal 

 year, besides the above sums in the hands of 

 paymasters, and the unissued requisitions, $94,- 

 000,000 were disbursed or distributed for dis- 

 bursement, making a total expenditure, from 

 June 30, 1864, to October 31, 1865, of $524,- 

 054,946. Of this large sum, more than one-half, 

 $270,000,000, was paid to disbanded volunteer 

 tr.oops mustered out of service, and who num- 

 bered in the aggregate over 800,000 men. The 

 total amount of money disbursed by the pay de- 

 partment during the four years of war, was 

 $1,029,239,000, at an expense of $6,970,600, or 

 less than seven-tenths of one per cent, of the 

 sum disbursed. The total losses and defalca- 

 tions during the same period amounted to $541,- 

 000, of which it is estimated that fully one-half 

 will be recovered. 



The operations of the Quartermaster Gen- 

 eral's bureau during the year were on an un- 

 usually extended scale, and those connected 

 with the transportation of large bodies of troops, 

 as that of the 23cl Corps, in January, from 

 Naehville to the Atlantic seaboard, a distance 

 of 1,400 miles, afforded, to quote the language 

 of Secretary Stanton, " striking illustrations of 

 the improvements in the art of war which have 

 been developed in the late contest." In that 

 instance the transfer was made in the depth of 

 an inclement season, in the brief space of eleven 

 days. Transportation was promptly supplied, 

 during the spring and summer, to the disbanded 

 armies, and in this service, as well as for the 

 conveyance of stores, upward of 1,000 vessels 

 were employed on the ocean and inland waters. 

 The ocean fleet alone numbered seven hundred 

 vessels, of which only three were lost. At the 

 close of the year nearly all of these had been 

 put out of commission or sold, and the monthly 

 expenses of this branch of the service were 

 reduced $1,814,130. Until the cessation of 

 hostilities the construction corps of the depart- 



ment was actively employed in the repair and 

 maintenance of the great railroad lines of com- 

 munication in the Southern States. The sur- 

 render of the Confederate armies, and the paci- 

 fication of the South, enabled the department 

 to return to then* former possessors most of the 

 railroads which had been in military possession 

 during the war. Under the direction of the 

 executive, the great quantities of rolling stock 

 on these roads accumulated by the department 

 during the war, have been distributed to the 

 different companies, who are required to pay 

 for it within two years, at a valuation fixed by 

 a board of officers and experts assembled by the 

 Government. The supplies furnished during 

 the year from the depots of the department are 

 indicated by the following table : 



Bushels of Grain 29,000,000 



Tons of Hay 400,000 



CordsofWood 836,000 



Tons of Coal 832,000 



The supplies furnished during the war were : 



Bushels of Corn 23,000,000 



Bushels of Oats 78,000,000 



Bushels of Barley 98,000 



Tons of Hay 1,500,000 



Tons of Straw 20,000 



Cords of Wood 550,000 



Tons of Coal 1,600,700 



From Sept. 1, 1864, to June 30, 1865, 20,714 

 artillery horses were purchased ; and from July 

 1, 1864, to June 30, 1865, 58,818 mules. Dur- 

 ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, the num- 

 ber of cavalry horses purchased amounted to 

 141,632. The reduction of the army has ena- 

 bled the department to dispense with large 

 numbers of horses and mules, the sums realized 

 from the sale of which amounted, at the close 

 of the year, to upward of $8,000,000. In all, 

 83,887 persons employed by the department 

 had been discharged at the end of December, 

 1865, reducing the monthly expenses $4,086,- 

 093 ; and the sales of property of all kinds re- 

 ported and recorded on the books of the Quar- 

 termaster General's office, from April 20 to Nov. 

 8, 1865, amounted to $13,357,345. In the sin- 

 gle item of forage alone the saving in Sept., 

 1865, was $2,160,000, as compared with the 

 expenditure of the preceding March. 



The burial records of the Quartermaster's De- 

 partment, which do not include the names of 

 those who fell in battle, and were buried on the 

 field by their comrades, show the interment of 

 116,148 persons, of whom 98,827 were loyal, 

 and 12,596 disloyal ; and 95,803 were whites, 

 and 22,345 colored persons. A detail of men 

 was sent to the prison at Andersonville, where 

 the graves of 12,461 Union soldiers were iden- 

 tified, and marked with appropriate head- 

 boards. On 451 graves the inscription, "Un- 

 known U. S. Soldier " was placed. 



At the termination of active military move- 

 ments 204 general hospitals, with a capacity of 

 136,894 beds, were in operation. Within the next 

 eight months, upward of 170 of these establish 

 meuts were discontinued, and the vast accu- 

 mulations of surplus medicines and hospital sup- 

 plies were disposed of at auction. Most of the 



