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RATION RETURN of Destitute Freedmen phis, Tenn. [[strikethrough]] Company Regiment of [[/strikethrough]] for 10 days, commencing the 1st day of [[strikethrough]] Jan [[/strikethrough]] February, 1866, and ending the 10th day of February, 1866. [[25 columned table]] | STATION. | Number of men. | Number of women. | Total. | Number of days. | Number of Rations. | RATIONS OF - Pork. | RATIONS OF - Bacon. | RATIONS OF - Salt Beef. | RATIONS OF - Fresh Beef. | RATIONS OF - Flour. | RATIONS OF - Hard Bread. | RATIONS OF - Beans. | RATIONS OF - Peas. | RATIONS OF - Rice. | RATIONS OF - Hominy. | RATIONS OF - Coffee. | RATIONS OF - Tea. | RATIONS OF - Sugar. | RATIONS OF - Vinegar. | RATIONS OF - Adamantine Candles. | RATIONS OF - Soap. | RATIONS OF - Salt. | RATIONS OF - Pepper. | REMARKS. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Memphis Tenn. | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 90 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ninety Rations Copy for Genl Fisk Send to this office | The A.C.S. will issue on the above return By order of Brevt Maj. Gen'l. J.E. Smith Wm W McCammon A.A. [[strikethrough]] Reg't of [[/strikethrough]] Gen'l [[strikethrough]] Comd'g Post. [[/strikethrough]] Jno A Staley Capt. 3d Reg't of U.S.C.A.Hy. [[strikethrough]] Comd'g Company. [[/strikethrough]] Supt. R.F. & A.L. Notes. - This return must embrace only the actual strength of the Company present, including the authorized Company women present. The Sick in Hospital, and authorized Attendants therein, will be returned for by the Medical Officer in charge, on the separate return. Provisions should ordinarily be drawn for a few days at a time. Rations must not be issued to Officers' servants, unless they are enlisted men. In this case, the names, companies, &c., of servants, will be stated in the column of "Remarks." Every return upon which provisions have been issued must be entered on the proper Abstract. Subsistence Stores for the use of Officers, their families, and authorized servants, may be purchased from the Commissariat
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Maj Genl J.E. Smith (confirmed via Wikipedia)
Wm W McCammon (confirmed via soldier's database)
Jno A Staley
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