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FORTS AND ARSENALS. 



Georgia Savannah, cost $174,407. 

 Alabama Mobile, cost $393,564. 

 Florida Pensacola, cost $51,000. 

 Louisiana New Orleans, cost $2,948,259. 

 Texas Galveston, cost $114,359. 

 Tennessee Knoxville, cost $231 ; Nashville, 

 cost $20,284. 



COURT HOUSES AND POST-OFFICES. 



South Carolina Columbia, $66. 

 North Carolina Raleigh, cost $8,120. 

 Florida Tallahassee, cost $84. 

 Tennessee Memphis, cost $15,143. 



MABINE HOSPITALS. 



North Carolina Wilmington, cost $43,897. 



Alabama Mobile, cost $54,540. 



Florida Pensacola, cost $3,052; St. Marks, 

 cost $25,700. 



Louisiana. The Marine Hospital at New 

 Orleans was in the United States barracks, as 

 they were called. On the 14th of January, 

 the Collector of the Port, Hatch, writes to Sec- 

 retary Dix of the Treasury Department, that 

 the barracks had been taken possession of by a 

 company of Louisiana Infantry, in the name of 

 the State, and he adds : " I shall take steps to 

 remove those invalids at an early day, if neces- 

 sary, and with due respect to economy." 



Secretary Dix sent by telegraph the following 

 reply : 



Apply to the Governor of Louisiana to revoke Cap- 

 tain Bradford's order. Remonstrate with the Governor 

 against the inhumanity of turning the sick out of the 

 hospital. If he refuses to interfere, have them removed 

 under the care of the resident surgeon, and do all in 

 your power to provide for their comfort. 



On the next day, the 27th, he writes to the 

 Collector denouncing this seizure in these em- 

 phathic terms: 



I did not receive, until the 26th instant, yours of the 

 14th instant informing me that the United States bar- 

 racks below the city of New Orleans, which have for 



several months been occupied as a Marine Hospital, 

 have been taken possession of in the name of the State 

 of Louisiana. I found enclosed a copy of the letter by 

 Captain Bradford, of the First Louisiana Infantry, ad- 

 vising you that he had taken possession of the barracks, 

 and that they would be required for the Louisiana 

 troops now being enlisted, and requesting you to im- 

 mediately remove those patients who are convalescent, 

 and, as soon as, in the opinion of the resident surgeon, 

 it may be practicable and humane, those also who are 

 now confined to their beds. He also states that the 

 barracks contained two hundred and sixteen invalids 

 and convalescent patients. 



Looking on this transaction as an outrage on the 

 public authority, I have no comment to make ; but I 

 cannot believe that a proceeding so discordant with 

 the character of the people of the United States, and 

 so revolting to the civilization of the age, has had the 

 sanction ofthe Governor of the State of Louisiana. I 

 sent a telegraphic despatch to you yesterday, desiring 

 you to remonstrate with him against the inhumanity 

 of Captain Bradford's order, and to ask him to revoke 

 it ; but if he should decline to interfere, I instructed 

 you in regard to the removal and treatment of the sick, 

 and in that I trust that you will carry out my direc- 

 tions, not merely with economy, but with a careful re- 

 gard to their helpless condition. 



Subsequently on the same day, the Collector 

 by telegraph said : " The Marine Hospital affair 

 has been satisfactorily arranged. The barrack* 

 are retained." 



-Vicksburg, cost $67,525. 

 Arkansas Napoleon, cost $59,250. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Louisiana Boarding Station at Pass a 1'Outre, 

 cost |12,000; do. South West Pass, $3,500; 

 Warehouses at Quarantine Station, New Or- 

 leans, cost $42,544. 



The following are the light-houses of the 

 United States which were seized by the author- 

 ities of the seceding States. The lights were 

 immediately extinguished and not re-lighted 

 during the year. In some instances they were 

 partially or totally destroyed. 



