Viewing page 75 of 285
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[preprinted]] 138 [[\preprinted]] 319 Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner Raleigh, N.C. June 13" 1866. Ketchum A.P. - A.A.A.G. B.R.F. & A.L. - Washn D.C. 316/ Major I have the honor herewith to forward a report of the number of destitute persons requiring rations in this State. It is my opinion that there is sufficient food in North Carolina for the consumption of the people, both white and black, until the growing crops are available - that this food is not distributed equally among the different counties according to the wants of the people, but that the State itself could by proper efforts provide for the destitute; that most, if not all of the Counties, whose duty it is to act first in that matter, could provide each for its own destitute, and that while such is my opinion with respect to the capacity of the Counties severally and of the State at large. Still I believe that without government assistance there will be suffering at some localities, which will be due however more to the scarcity of money than to any other cause. It is to be remarked, however, from the experience of last year in the matter of issuing rations to destitute people that there will be no lack of that class of persons so long as rations are issued gratuitously, even if there is a large surplus of food in the State. This report would have been forwarded sooner but for the fact that until this date not enough reports had been received from various parts of the State to enable an estimate be made of sufficient accuracy for the purposes required. I am, Major Very respectfully Yor most obedient Svt. (sgd) Thos. H. Ruger Bvt. Maj. Genl. Vols. Asst. Commr. Official Clinton a. Cilley A.A. Genl. [[line across page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 139 [[preprinted]] 320 Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner Raleigh, N.C. June 20" 1866. Howard Maj. Genl. O.O. Comr. B.R.F. & A.L. Washn D.C. 252/322 General, I have the honor to state that repeated applications are made to me to furnish guards at the offices of the Assistant Superintendents throughout the State, which I am unable to grant, for the reason that the military force here is too small to enable me to comply with these requests. I am, General Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant (Signed) Thos. H. Ruger Bvt. Maj. Genl. Asst. Commr. Official Clinton A. Cilley A.A. Genl. [[line across page]] 321 Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner Raleigh, N.C. June 22" 1866. Brady Col. A.G. Supt. Cent. Dist. B.R.F. & A.L. 312/336 Col. The Asst. Commr. directs that you make ration returns for 7 days at a time, until the end of July 1866, to such freedpeople as are recommended by Rev. James Cuny. I am, Colonel Very respectfully Your Obt. Srvt. Clinton A. Cilley A.A.G. [[line across page]] 322 Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner Raleigh, N.C. June 22" 1866. Howard O.O. Maj. Genl. Commr. H. Washington, D.C. 320/323 General. I respectfully request that 2" Lieut. Edward Lynch, 1" Regt. V.R.C. now at Rochester N.Y. may be ordered to report to me for duty on my staff. [[Footnote 1]] On 15" Inst. I addressed a note to you requesting that Capt. J.F. Chur 21" Regt. V.R. Corp. (on duty at Baltimore Md.) be directed to report to me - I repeat this as my note may not have reached you. Very respectfully Your Obt. Srvt. (sgn) Jno. C. Robinson Bvt. Maj. Genl. Asst. Comssr. &c. Official Clinton A. Cilley A.A. Genl. [[Footnote 1]] Returned July 5" with statement that the Sec. of War refuses to detail any more officers of the V.R.C. at present.
