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Stoneman's Station
Near Falmouth [Virginia] 8th March / 63

Mr. Hathaway,

It is about time that we should report our doings to you again.  Since my last communication the state of the roads has been such as to impede the progress of our work to some extent.  We have however visited the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 16th, 17th regiments of Infantry, the 2nd & 5th Batteries, & the Maine Cavalry.  We also sent some fruit to the sick of the 7th Maine, and hope to visit that Regiment soon -  We find an improvement in the general condition & health of the Regiments, which has no doubt been promoted by the favorable change in the rations, giving them much greater variety, also various sanitary movements,

such as company cooks &c - Some of the hospitals too have been much improved in the internal arrangement -  We have thought it might be well to give a statement of the amount distributed since my last report.  We have aimed to make a fair division of these supplies, so that each regiment should receive it's true proportions & we keep a list of all the articles distributed with the date of distribution which can be referred to at any time.  Since the 7th of Feb'y comprising a period of one month (nearly one week of which we were in Washington) we have carried, & as far as possible, placed in the hands of the sick men, given them information that they would receive it, or given to the Hospitals the following articles.
12 shirts  6 dressing gowns

70 pr drawers  13 cases meat
165 pr socks  22 cans con. milk
68 pr mittens  44 papers farina & corn starch
24 doz. hankerchiefs  30 papers broma & cocoa
36 quilts  35 doz lemons
30 pillows  10 doz oranges
70 towels  1 barrel dried apples
11/2 doz hos. caps  2 barrels green apples
8 prs slippers  1 barrel crackers
9 doz nutmegs  2 bottles blackberry brandy
2 nutmeg graters  1 bottle blackberry syrup
5 bottles brandy  1 bottle cherry rum
10 doz combs   4 bottles raspberry vinegar
14 jars jelly  2 bottles ketchup
9 jars marmalade  1 jar pickles
4 bottles currant wine  1 jar strawberry
3 bottles elderberry wine