500,000 | Troops and their animals could be supplied |
8 | Wharves covering eight acres with more than 100,000 square feet of warehouses on the wharves |
280 | Buildings |
22 | Miles of rail lines |
1 | Railroad turntable |
24 | Locomotives |
275 | Railroad cars (rolling stock) |
10,000 | Workers including 3,000 dock workers, many dock workers are freed slaves |
1,800 | Repair shop workers including carpenters, blacksmiths, saddlers, corral hands, teamsters, laborers and guards |
2 to 25 | Ships unloaded per day |
3,653 | Wagons repaired |
2,414 | Ambulances repaired |
19,618 | Horses shod |
31,628 | Mules shod |
27,116 | Serviceable horses received. 16,344 unserviceable horses received |
10,893 | Serviceable mules received. 9,684 unserviceable mules received |
31,386 | Horses issued |
18,891 | Mules issued |
2,500 | Head of cattle at City Point with an equal number elsewhere (some of which were captured by the Confederates in a raid) |
15,000 | Capacity of hospital facilities. Seven hospitals in operation |
100,000 | Loaves of bread baked daily. |
60,000 | Horses and mules to be fed daily, 26 pounds each |
1 | Shortage of forage for the animals. This was the only major shortage in the operation of City Point |
0 | Items leaving City Point without General Ingalls approval |
24 | Hours response time for supplies |
40 | Days to complete wharves and warehouses from intial order to create a depot by General Grant |
1 | Explosion caused by sabotage. 43 reported killed and 126 injured. |
1 | Confederate vessels nearly making an attack on the depot |
Updated March 06, 2001 © L.R. Davis