Food Shipments to Portsmouth

The transportation requests below were requested by Commissary Major W. H. Smith from Quartermaster Capt. George W. Grier in early 1862. They are not complete, just representative of how the system worked.
Request Date Station Quantity Item
Jan. 27 Boykins 150 bags (18,000#) Peas
Jan. 27 Margaretville 24 bags  (2880#) Peas
Jan. 27 Goldsboro, NC 125 bbls (10,000#) Hard Bread
Jan. 30 Newsoms 149 pieces (283#) Bacon
Jan. 30 Franklin 50 bags  (9,000#) Peas
Jan. 30 Branchville 161 bags  (19,320#) Peas
Jan. 30 Boykins 165 bags  (19,800) Peas
Jan. 31 Portsmouth to Goldsboro 46 boxes  (2,9360#) Beef
Feb. 1 Franklin 20 bags  (2,400#) Peas
Feb. 19 Boykins 60 bags  (7,200#) Peas
 
   Peas were packed 2 bushels per bag, 60# per bushel. Each railroad car carried 16,000#.
   All shipments were on the Seaboard & Roanoke RR and were into Portsmouth, except the shipment from Portsmouth to Goldsboro.

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