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Chapter 283

Statement Showing the Expenditures,

As far as ascertained, necessarily growing out of the War of the Rebellion, from July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1870, inclusive.

APPROPRIATION. Gross Expenditure. Expenditure other than for the war. Expenditure growing out of the war.

Expenses of national loans and currency $51,522,730 77 $51,522,730 77

Premiums 59,738,167 73 59,738,167 73

Interest on public debt 1,809,301,485 19 $45,045,286 74 1,764,256,198 45

Expenses of collecting revenue from customs 99,690,808 31 57,151,550 44 42,539,257 87

Judgment of Court of Claims 5,516,260 75 551,626 07 4,964,634 68

Payments of judgments Court of Alabama Claims 9,315,753 19 9,315,753 19

Salaries and expenses of Southern Claims Commission 371,321 82 371,321 82

Salaries and expenses of American and British Claims Commission 295,878 54 295,878 54

Award to British claimants 1,929,819 00 1,929,819 00

Tribunal of arbitration at Geneva 244,815 40 244,815 40

Salaries and expenses of Alabama Claims Commission 253,231 12 253,231 12

Salaries and contingent expenses of Pension Office 7,095,968 05 1,870,180 00 5,225,788 05

Salaries and contingent expenses of War Department 15,381,956 58 2,712,693 79 12,619,262 79

Salaries and contingent expenses of Executive Departm’nt (exclusive of Pension office and War Department) 33,944,017 67 10,110,745 70 23,833,271 97

Expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue 112,803,841 31 112,803,841 31

Miscellaneous accounts 2,664,199 82 456,714 21 2,207,485 61

Subsistence of the Army 420,041,037 75 38,623,489 17 381,417,548 58

Quartermaster’s Department 357,518,966 61 58,037,048 95 299,481,917 63

Incidental expenses of Quartermaster’s Department 101,528,573 37 16,185,839 74 85,342,733 63

Transportation of the Army 407,463,324 81 70,669,439 25 336,793,885 56

Transportation of officers and their baggage 4,626,219 66 1,601,000 00 3,025,219 66

Clothing of the Army 356,651,466 31 11,107,586 11 345,543,880 20

Purchase of horses for cavalry and artillery 130,990,762 95 4,318,339 51 126,672,423 24

Barracks, quarters, etc. 49,872,669 40 18,801,822 89 31,070,846 59

Heating and cooking stoves 487,881 45 39,150 00 448,731 45

Pay, mileage, general expenses, etc., of the Army 184,473,721 26 106,388,991 79 78,084,729 47

Pay of two and three years’ volunteers 1,041,102,702 58 1,041,102,702 58

Pay of three months’ volunteers 886,305 41 886,305 41

Pay, etc., of one hundred days’ volunteers 14,386,778 29 14,386,778 29

Pay of militia and volunteers 6,126,952 65 6,126,952 65

Pay, etc., to officers and men in the Department of the Missouri 844,150 55 844,150 55

Pay and supplies of one hundred days’ volunteers 4,824,877 68 4,824,877 68

Bounty to volunteers and regulars on enlistment 38,522,046 20 38,522,046 20

Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs 31,760,345 95 31,760,345 95

Additional bounty act of July 28, 1866 69,998,786 71 69,998,786 61

Collect’n and payment of bounty, etc., to color’d soldiers, etc. $268,158 11 $268,158 11

Reimbursing States for moneys expended for payment of military service of the United States 9,635,512 85 9,635,512 85

Defraying expenses of minute-men and volunteers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky 597,178 30 597,178 30

Refunding to States expenses incurred on account of volunteers 31,297,242 60 31,297,242 60

Reimbursements to Baltimore for aid in construction of defensive works in 1863 96,152 00 96,152 00

Payment to members of certain military organizations in Kansas 296,097 28 296,097 28

Expenses of recruiting 2,568,639 91 1,270,673 56 1,297,966 35

Draft and substitute fund 9,713,873 13 9,713,873 13

Medical and Hospital Department 46,954,146 83 1,845,376 47 45,108,770 36

Medical and Surgical History and Statistics 196,048 32 196,048 32

Medical Museum and Library 55,000 00 55,000 00

Providing for comfort of sick, wounded and discharged soldiers 2,232,785 12 2,232,785 12

Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum 123,487 49 123,487 49

Artificial limbs and appliances 509,283 21 509,283 21

Ordnance service 6,114,533 38 1,561,001 67 4,553,531 71

Ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies 59,798,079 70 3,834,146 87 55,933,932 83

Armament of fortifications 12,336,710 88 2,118,238 79 10,218,472 09

National armories, arsenals, &c. 29,730,717 53 $6,127,228 21 23,603,489 32

Purchase of arms for volunteers and regulars 76,378,935 13 76,378,935 13

Traveling expenses First Michigan Cavalry and California and Nevada Volunteers 84,131 50 84,131 50

Payment of expenses under reconstruction acts 3,128,905 94 3,128,905 94

Secret Service 681,587 42 681,587 42

Books of tactics 172,568 15 172,568 15

Medals of Honor 29,890 00 29,890 00

Support of National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers 8,546,184 76 8,546,184 76

Publication of official records of war of the rebellion 170,998 98 170,998 98

Contingencies of the Army and Adjutant General’s Department 3,291,835 14 565,136 39 2,726,698 75

Payments under special acts of relief 1,088,406 83 1,088,406 83

Copying official reports 5,000 00 5,000 00

Expenses of court of inquiry in 1858 and 1869 5,000 00 5,000 00

United States police for Baltimore 100,000 00 100,000 00

Preparing register of volunteers 1,015 45 1,015 45

Army pensions 437,744,192 80 30,315,000 00 407,429,192 80

Telegraph for military purposes 2,500,085 80 2,500,085 80

Maintenance of gunboat fleet proper 5,244,684 32 5,244,684 32

Keeping, transporting, and supplying prisoners of war 7,659,411 60 7,659,411 60

Permanent forts and fortifications; surveys for military defenses; contingencies of fortifications; platform for cannon of large calibre, &c., from 1862 to 1868 20,887,756 96 7,483,765 87 13,4O3,991 09

Construction and maintenance of steam rams 1,370,730 42 1,370,730 42

Signal service 222,269 79 78,472 23 143,797 56

Gunboats on the Western rivers 3,239,314 18 3,239,314 18

Supplying, transporting, and delivering arms and munitions of war to loyal citizens in States in rebellion against the Government of the United States 1,649,596 57 1,649,596 57

Collecting, organizing, and drilling volunteers 29,091,666 57 29,091,666 57

Bridge-trains and equipage 1,413,701 75 1,413,701 75

Tool and siege trains 702,250 00 702,250 00

Completing the defenses of Washington 912,283 01 912,283 01

Commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States 320,636 62 320,636 62

National cemeteries 4,162,848 39 4,162,848 39

Purchase of Ford’s Theatre 88,000 00 88,000 00

Temporary relief to destitute people in District of Columbia 57,000 00 57,000 00

Headstones, erection of headstones, pay of superintendents, and removing the remains of officers to national cemeteries 1,080,185 54 1,080,185 54

State of Tennessee for keeping and maintaining United States military prisoners 22,749 49 22,749 49

Capture of Jeff. Davis 97,031 62 97,031 62

Removing wreck of gunboat Oregon in Chefunct River, Louisiana 5,500 00 5,500 00

Support of Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen 11,454,237 30 11,454,237 30

Claims for quartermaster’s stores and commissary supplies 850,220 91 850,220 91

Miscellaneous claims audited by Third Auditor 94,223 11 47,112 11 47,111 00

Claims of loyal citizens for supplies furnished during the rebellion 4,170,304 54 4,170,304 54

Payment for use of Corcoran Art Gallery 125,000 00 125,000 00

Expenses of sales of stores and material 5,842 43 5,842 43

Transportation of insane volunteer soldiers 1,000 00 1,000 00

Horses and other property lost in military service 4,281,724 91 4,281,724 91

Purchase of cemetery grounds near Columbus, Ohio 500 00 500 00

Fortifications on the Northern Frontier 683,748 12 683,748 12

Pay of the Navy 144,549,073 96 70,086,769 62 74,462,304 34

Provisions of the Navy 32,771,931 16 16,403,307 34 16,368,623 82

Clothing of the Navy 2,709,491 98 1,114,701 00 1,594,790 98

Construction and repair 170,007,781 25 35,829,684 80 134,178,096 65

Equipment of vessels $25,174,614 53 $25,174,614 53

Ordnance 38,063,357 67 $6,641,263 30 31,422,094 37

Surgeons’ necessaries 2,178,769 74 241,025 68 1,937,744 06

Yards and docks 33,638,156 59 3,337,854 52 30,300,302 07

Fuel for the Navy 19,952,754 36 8,612,521 68 11,340,232 68

Hemp for the Navy 2,836,916 69 1,938,664 42 898,252 27

Steam machinery 49,297,318 57 49,297,318 57

Navigation 2,526,247 00 2,526,247 00

Naval hospitals 875,452 34 375,789 40 499,662 94

Magazines 753,822 13 349,290 48 404,531 65

Marine corps, pay, clothing, &c. 16,726,906 00 8,969,290 82 7,757,615 18

Naval Academy 2,640,440 87 778,308 86 1,862,132 01

Naval Asylum, Philadelphia 652,049 89 65,394 00 586,655 89

Temporary increase of the Navy 8,123,766 21 8,123,766 21

Miscellaneous appropriations 2,614,044 77 2,614,044 77

Naval pensions 7,540,043 00 950,000 00 6,590,043 00

Bounties to seamen 2,821,530 10 2,821,530 10

Bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels 271,309 28 271,309 28

Indemnity for lost clothing 389,025 33 389,025 33

Total expenditures $6,844,571,431 03 $654,641,522 45 $6,189,929,908 58

Note.—Only the appropriations from which war expenditures were made are included in the above.