American National Red Cross; Red Cross and Red Crescent
Grits 1,527 bushels.
Meal 163 bushels.
Rice 672 pounds.
Wheat flour 23,980 pounds.
Bacon 7,000 pounds.
and other sundries, such as tea, sugar, canned beef, etc. Seeds were
supplied, such as peas, tomatoes, okra, melon, bean, corn, etc., of the
following amounts:
Corn 140 bushels.
Bean 60 bushels.
Irish potato 75 bushels.
Assorted seed 30 bushels.
Assorted seed 3 crates.
Garden seed 3 boxes.
STATEMENT OF WORK DONE ON EACH ISLAND.
WADMALAW ISLAND.
Twenty miles of ditching.
One-half mile of road work.
One house repaired and others rebuilt.
Three chimneys repaired and others rebuilt.
Five hundred shingles cut and split.
Six thousand feet of planking and timber hewn and cut.
Wharf built at Rockville of the following dimensions:
One hundred and ten feet long.
Ten feet wide with a bulkhead twenty by thirty feet.
A school started and carried on for several months.
EDISTO ISLAND.
Two hundred and eleven and one-half miles of ditching.
One thousand four hundred and seventy feet of causeway, twelve by
two feet, built.
Two hundred feet of timber cut and hewn.
One bridge eighty feet long and twelve feet wide rebuilt.
KIAWAH ISLAND
One bridge thirty-four feet long and ten feet wide rebuilt and put
in order.
One bridge fifty feet long and ten feet wide rebuilt and put in
order.
Lumber to do same cut and hewn out of woods.
Nine hundred feet of causeway repaired and put in good order.
The above account does not include the hundreds of little things which
would come up from day to day, and the many cares that were upon us at
all times, requiring immediate attention.
[Illustration: THE ISLAND DISTRICT FROM SAVANNAH TO BEAUFORT.]
THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account