Ration return of Lieutenant Franklin Force; August 16, 1865

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People

Cooper, Samuel A.Force, Franklin

Events

Starvation

Military Units

United States. Army United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 50th

Organizations

United States--Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands United States--War Department United States--War Department. Subsistence Department

Occupations

Provost Marshals

Places

Mississippi--Rankin County. Brandon

Social Identifiers

African Americans African Americans--Historically Free and Newly Freed Homeless or Unhoused Persons Impoverished People

Ration return of Lieutenant Franklin Force; August 16, 1865

FORM 13.

Ration Return of Freedmen ~~Company,~~ [gap] ~~Regiment of~~ [gap] for 15 days, commencing the 15 day of August 1865, and ending the 31^st_" day of August 1865:

STATION.

No. of Men.

No. of Women. & children

TOTAL.

No. of Days.

No. of Rations.

RATIONS OF Pork.

RATIONS OF Bacon.

RATIONS OF Ham.

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. Rye

RATIONS OF Tea.

RATIONS OF Sugar.

RATIONS OF Vinegar.

RATIONS OF Adamantine Candles.

RATIONS OF Soap.

RATIONS OF Salt.

RATIONS OF Pepper.

RATIONS OF Molasses.

RATIONS OF Potatoes.

RATIONS OF ~~Mixt Vegetables~~

REMARKS.

Brandon Miss.

160

~~160~~

160

~~160~~

These people are destitute of home and food and unless fed for the present from the commissary must starve.

The A. C. S. will issue on the above return.

Franklin ForceLt. and Act. Prov. Mar. of Freedmen ~~Commanding Company~~.

S A CooperCapt 50^th U S Cold Inft. Commanding Post.