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. | |||