[518] Letter of Secretary Chase to Hon. E. B. Washburne, in Ho. Mis. Doc., No. 78, 38th Cong., 1st Sess.
[519] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Nov. 11, 1861. As early as Jan. 14, 1861, Governor Moore reported that the poorest classes were in want and that much suffering, perhaps starvation, would result unless aid were given. O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. I, p. 51. The soldiers’ families were reported to be almost destitute in April, 1861. Idem, p. 220.
[520] Acts of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 31, 1861.
[521] Act of Gen. Assembly, Dec. 29, 1861.
[522] Annual Cyclopædia (1862), p. 9.
[523] Jones, “Diary,” Vol. I, pp. 194, 198.
[524] Act of Gen. Assembly, Nov. 8, 1862.
[525] Act of Gen. Assembly, Nov. 11, 1862.
[526] Act of Gen. Assembly, Nov. 8, 1862.
[527] Act of Gen. Assembly, Oct. 16, 1864.