SIR: In compliance with the
October 7, addressed to chiefs
lowing report of the operation
year:
The subsistence stores requi
field have during the year been
of the war, in the principal ma
cost of transportation to the val
the relative prices in the differe
mercial interests of the country
these purchases among the sev
leans, gradually resuming a hea
department-and in further aid
considerable portion of the sup
Although the present general co
afford a large amount of supplie
of this department are able in s
for beef cattle and slaughtered
other articles
The principal p
have performed their duties wit
and with much mercantile abili
general satisfaction of the comm
transacted the business of this
So far as has been practicable vertising for and receiving sealed six months four hundred and two placed on file in this office.
The principal commissaries imm several armies in the field have per of receiving, protecting, and distr commendable efficiency and succe able, to a considerable extent, to s country in which the armies were of
It is believed that during the en
ment, or expedition has failed on a
partment to meet its proper requir
wherever stationed or operating, ha
rations in good and wholesome cond
While the Subsistence departmen
quate supply of subsistence for the
ferent fields of operations, as also fo
cupied throughout the entire count
ment that its vast labors in the tran
as having been performed with a rea
commendation. As a single item in
stance the fact that during the y
shipped from the port of New York
subsistence stores per day for every
1864 six thousand seven hundred an