Battelle v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe court found tbe following facts : Early in May, 1862, General Frémont, commanding- tbe Mountain Department, moved with tbe forces under bis immediate command from New Greek, in tbe northern part of Western Virginia, southerly, to re-enforce tbe Union forces threatened by tbe confederate army under General “ Stonewall” Jackson.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe court found tbe following facts : Early in May, 1862, General Frémont, commanding- tbe Mountain Department, moved with tbe forces under bis immediate command from New Greek, in tbe northern part of Western Virginia, southerly, to re-enforce tbe Union forces threatened by tbe confederate army under General “ Stonewall” Jackson. At Petersburg!!, where a commissary’s depot bad been established by Captain Mackenzie, assistant commissary, General Frémont directed him to procure immediately beef-cattle to accompany bis march, as be bad not sufficient…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
By the contract made between Captain Mackenzie, on the part of the United States, and the petitioners, on February 1, 1862, at Cumberland, the petitioners were to supply Lander’s division, then at Camp Kelly, near Cumberland, and any other troops that might be attached thereto, “ with fresh beef, in quarters, in such quantities as might from time to time be required, not oftener than five times a week, for 6J cents per pound.”
And Battelle and Evans were to accompany the expedition then contemplated with one hundred head of beef-cattle, more or less, as might be required, and with ox-teams,…
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- Battelle v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1886