Would like to find more about commissary operations, too.

When ordered April 3, 1865, to move his brigade from Columbus, Miss., to Marion, by way of Pickensville and Finch's Ferry, Brig Gen Wirt Adams was instructed to carry only hard bread and essential cook utensils, as "bacon will be provided" along his route of march. Thus, when Croxton's brigade looted Sipsey (Lanier's) Mills on April 6, 1865, taking a considerable quantity of bacon, it is possible that this was Wirt's bacon. When Adams attacked the 6th Kentucky Cav, Croxton's rear guard, late that morning, the
Federals used the stacks of bacon as field fortifications against Adams' attack. I guess Wirt was able to get his bacon back, only that which sustained gunfire may not have cooked up too well.

I have read that the commissary agent for Greene County was Foster Mark Kirkesy, who was building "Kirkwood" in Eutaw when the War began. His papers are in the Hoole Special Collections section of the U of A library in Tuscaloosa. Would like to learn how he fit into the scheme of things, and the collection and distribution of commissary collections from Sipsey Mills, which I have also seen referred to as a commissary warehouse. Where is this information on these departments availible?