SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
Guiney's Station, Va., February 6, 1863.
Lieutenant-General JACKSON,
Commanding Second Army Corps.
GENERAL: The following statement of property captured by your command is as nearly complete as I can make it:
FRONT ROYAL. Flour ...................... barrels.. 85 WINCHESTER AND MARTINSBURG. 103 head of cattle ... pounds, gross.. 92,700 Bacon ...................... pounds.. 14,637 Hard bread ...................... do.. 6,000 Sugar...................... do.. 2,400 Salt...................... bushels.. 350 HARPER'S FERRY. Salt-pork...................... pounds.. 1,315 Salt-beef...................... do.. 1,545 Bacon...................... do.. 19,267 Hard bread...................... do.. 155,954 Rice...................... do.. 628 Coffee...................... do.. 4,930 Sugar...................... do.. 209 Candles...................... do.. 67 Soap...................... do.. 280 Beans...................... bushels.. 29 Salt...................... do.. 154 Vinegar...................... gallons.. 180 Molasses...................... do .. 80
At McDowell nothing was captured except hard bread, which was issued to troops passing through - an extra ration. At Winchester, Martinsburg, and Harper's Ferry large amounts of supplies were carried off by division wagons, of which no report was made to me. Full rations were issued to 13,000 of the enemy for two days at Harper's Ferry. The issue was made before an inventory was taken.
Very respectfully,
W. J. HAWKS,
Major and Commissary of Subsistence, 2d A. C., Army of N. Va.
Source: OR1
1 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Vol. 19/Part 1 (Ser #27), pg. 961 [AotW citation 198]