. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . sissippi. The departments estimate to cover con-tracts made in England for supplies to run the blockade dur-ing a single six-months period amounted to £570,000. It is the conclusion of James Ford Rhodes, the historianof the Civil War period, that never had an army been sowell equipped with food and clothing as was that of the North;never before were the comfort and welfare of the men so welllooked after. The appropriations for the QuartermastersDepartment alone, durin
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . sissippi. The departments estimate to cover con-tracts made in England for supplies to run the blockade dur-ing a single six-months period amounted to £570,000. It is the conclusion of James Ford Rhodes, the historianof the Civil War period, that never had an army been sowell equipped with food and clothing as was that of the North;never before were the comfort and welfare of the men so welllooked after. The appropriations for the QuartermastersDepartment alone, during the war, aggregated more than abillion dollars. Extensive frauds were perpetrated on theGovernment, not only in the clothing contracts of the first year,to which reference has been made, but in the transport serviceand in various transactions which were not properly checkedunder a system of audit and disbursement that broke down alto-gether in the emergency of real war. In the opinion of , the administrators of the War Department were notonly efficient, but aggressively honest public servants. [561 MTOflra^ rf. PART ISOLDIER LIFE MARSHALLING THE FEDERALVOLUNTEERS
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