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MILITAEY DEPARTMENTS. 



MINNESOTA. 



647 



1861 7,400 



1862 9,062 



1863 8,548 



to 1854 7,642 



1855 to 1857 11,312 



1858 1 3,500 



59 4,200 



, 6,000 Total 57,664 



Estimating this at an average price of $500 

 per ton, the gross amount will equal $28,832,- 

 000. Important discoveries of silver and lead 



tines are also reported to have been made in 



e Lake Superior region during the year. In 

 862, 1,270,000 bushels of salt were produced 

 om the salt wells of the Saginaw valley, and 

 operations were pushed in the succeeding year 

 over a wide area of the adjacent country. Fre- 

 quent traces of petroleum having been met 

 with at Jackson, Dexter, Paw Paw, and other 

 places, measures have been taken to test the 

 productiveness of the State in this material. 



The wheat crop of 1863 was relatively less 

 than in the preceding year ; the ravages of in- 

 sects, and the heavy rains of midsummer hav- 

 ing done considerable damage in some parts of 

 the State ; but in view of the increased breadth 

 of land sown the yield was probably as large, 

 if not larger, than in the previous year. The 

 corn crop, however, was greatly reduced by the 

 sudden and severe frosts of August 29th and 

 30th, which devastated the whole Northwest. 



MILITAEY GEOGRAPHICAL DEPART- 

 MENTS. The geographical extent of each of 

 the Military Departments into which the coun- 

 try was divided during the latter part of 1863 

 is thus defined. Some changes were made 

 in them at different periods by which the num- 

 ber was increased or reduced. 



Department of the East. The New England States, 

 and the State of New York. Headquarters at New 

 York City. 



Middle Department. The States of New Jersey, 

 Delaware, Western Virginia, the eastern shore of Mary- 

 land and Virginia, and the counties of Cecil, Harford, 

 Baltimore, and Anne Arundel, Maryland. Head- 

 quarters at Baltimore, Maryland. 



Department of Washington. The district of country 

 north of the Potomac River from Piscataway Creek to 

 Annapolis Junction, and the mouth of the Monqcacy ; 

 and south by Goose Creek and Bull Run Mountains, to 

 the month of the Occoquan. Headquarters at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



*Department of Virginia. Fortress Monroe, Vir- 

 inia, and sixty miles around the same. Headquar- 

 at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 



*Department of North Carolina. The State of 



orth Carolina. Headquarters tt Newbern, North 

 Carolina. 



Department of the South. The State of South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, a'nd all of the State of Florida, except 

 Key West, Tortugas, and West Florida.' Headquar- 

 ters at Hilton Head, South Carolina. 



Department of the Gulf. Key West and the Tortu- 

 gas, and all the coast of the Gulf of Mexico west of 

 Pensacola Harbor, and so much of the Gulf States as 

 may be occupied by the United States forces, and the 

 State of Texas. Headquarters at New Orleans, Lou- 

 isiana. 



Department of the Northwest. The States of Wis- 

 consin, Io\va, Minnesota, and the Territory of Dakota. 

 Headquarters at St. Paul, Minnesota. 



^Department of the Ohio. The States of Ohio, Mich- 

 igan, Indiana, Illinois, Western Virginia, and Ken- 



* Consolidated into one, under General Butler, 

 t Consolidated under General Grant. 



tucky, east of the Tennessee River, including Cumber- 

 land Gap. Headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



^Department of the Cumberland. That portion of 

 the State of Tennessee east of the Tennessee River, 

 and such parts of northern Alabama and Georgia as 

 may be taken possession of by the United States 

 troops. Headquarters in the field. 



^Department of the Tennessee. Cairo, Illinois ; Forts 

 Henry and Donelson, Tennessee ; Northern Mississip- 

 pi, and the portions of Kentucky and Tennessee west 

 of the Tennessee River. Head-qnarters in the field. 



Department of the Missouri. -The States of Missou- 

 ri, Arkansas, and Kansas ; the bordering Indian Terri- 

 tory ; Alton, Illinois ; Nebraska and Colorado Terri- 

 tories. Headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri. 



Department of New Mexico. The Territory of New 

 Mexico, district ov Western Arizona, and Fort Gar- 

 land, Colorado Territory. Headquarters at Santa Fe, 

 New Mexico. 



Department of the Pacific. The country west of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Headquarters at San Francisco, 

 California. 



Department of Monongahela. That portion of the 

 State of Pennsylvania west of Johnstown and the 

 Laurel Hill range of mountains, and the counties of 

 Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio in the State of Virginia, 

 and the counties of Columbia, Jefferson and Belmont 

 in the State of Ohio. Headquarters at Pittsburg. 



Department of the Susquehanna. That portion of 

 the State of Pennsylvania east of Johnstown and the 

 Laurel Hill range of mountains. Headquarters at 

 Chambersburg. 



MINNESOTA, a Northwestern State of the 

 American Union, organized as a territory 

 March 3d, 1849, and admitted into the Union 

 as a State in 1857. Its area is 83.,531 square 

 miles. Population in 1860, 173,855. An elec- 

 tion was held for State officers and Legislature 

 in October, 1863, and the Republican and Union 

 ticket was elected ; Samuel Miller, the Union 

 candidate, receiving 19,616 votes, and H. T. 

 Welles, the Democratic candidate, 12,777. The 

 Legislature stands as follows : Senate Repub- 

 lican Union, 16 ; Democrats, 4; Union Demo- 

 crat, 1. House Republican Union, 27; Demo- 

 crats, 11 ;_ Union Democrats, 4. The receipts 

 into the State Treasury (including a balance on 

 hand Dec. 1st, 1862), for the year ending Dec. 

 1st, 1863, were $695,865. The expenditures 

 for the same period were $576,539, leaving an 

 unexpended balance of $119,326. The State 

 debt is $350,000, $250,000 of which are in 8 per 

 cent, bonds, and $100,000 in 7 per cent, bonds. 

 The U. S. Government paid $200,000 to the 

 State on account of the Indian war of the pre- 

 vious year. The State valuation for the tax 

 levy of 1863 was $30,000,000, and a tax of 4 

 mills was levied on it 2 mills for State rev- 

 enue, and 2 mills for interest on State loans. 

 Minnesota is a young State, and Mas had so seri- 

 ous experience in civil war and war with the 

 Indians that her educational and benevolent 

 institutions have as yet made but little progress. 

 Her school system is not yet in good working 

 order, though she is destined to have a school 

 fund as ample as any in the Union. There are 

 several colleges, but as yet they are only in a 

 rudimentary state. A slight provision has been 

 made for the insane, but none for the deaf and 

 dumb, the blind, or the idiotic. 



t Consolidated under Gen. Grant. 



