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Captured Works, Blakely, Ala., April 10, 1865.
Lieut. A. R. Mills,
Adjutant Forty-seventh U. S. Colored Infantry:
LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to submit the following report of
ordinance, ordinance stores, and quartermaster's stores, captured
by First Division, U. S. Colored Troops, which I have collected
and now have in charge, subject to your orders:
One siege piece (32-pounder), 3 brass pieces (two 6-pounders
and one 12-pounder, rifled), 1 Sawyer gun (41/2-inch rifled), 2
howitzers (24-pounders), 2 Coehorn mortars (24-pounders), 304
small-arms (Enfield, Austin, and Mississippi rifles), 250
infantry accouterments (unserviceable), 30 boxes fixed ammunition
(for 6 and 12 pounders), 2 boxes fixed ammunition (for 24-pounder
howitzer), 2 boxes spherical case (for 24-pounder), 3 boxes
grape, 3 kegs powder, 4 limber chests (100 rounds shot and shell,
with primers and fuse), 20 shovels, 18 axes, 3 picks, 3 barrows,
4 wall tents, 2 spades, 2 stretchers.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SOURCE: United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 48. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
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