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113 Series I Volume X-I Serial 10 - Shiloh Part I

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APRIL 10-15, 1862.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate Notes by the

compiler.

First 81 1,763 1,844

Division:

1st Brigade

2nd Brigade 55 1,260 1,315

3rd Brigade 75 1,575 1,650
From

statement

April 15 of

effective

force."

Artillery 14 230 244

Cavalry 12 246 258

Total First 237 5,074 5,311

Division

Second 42 860 902

Division:

1st Brigade

2nd Brigade 81 1,979 2,060

3rd Brigade 100 2,031 2,131

Artillery 18 301 319
Return of

April 13.

Cavalry 4 186 190

Total Second 245 5,357 5,602

Division

Third 226 4,791 5,017

Division:

Infantry

Artillery 11 289 300
Return of

April 10:

Brigade

organization

not indicated;

casualties are

39 killed, 253

wounded, and 1

missing.

Cavalry 14 263 277

Total Third 251 5,343 5,594

Division

Fourth 61 1,715 1,776

Division:

1st Brigade

2nd Brigade 71 1,929 2,000

3rd Brigade 65 1,226 1,291
Return of

April 10; The

casualties

noted are 296

killed, 1,436

wounded, and

144 missing.

Artillery 4 127 131

Cavalry 36 655 691

Total Fourth 237 5,652 5,889

Division

Fifth 67 1,337 1,404

Division:

1st Brigade

2nd Brigade 74 1,328 1,404

3rd Brigade 66 1,669 1,735

4th Brigade 82 1,823 1,905
Return of

April 10: The

casualties

noted are 314

killed, 1,242

wounded, and

475 missing.

Artillery 12 303 315

Cavalry 27 449 476

Total Fifth 328 6,909 7,237

Division

Sixth 57 1,666 1,723

Division:

1st Brigade

2nd Brigade 52 1,028 1,080
Return of

April 13; the

casualties

noted are 35

killed, 53

wounded, and

52 missing.

Unattached 77 1,693 1,770

Total Sixth 186 4,387 4,573

Division

Grand total 1,484 32,722 34,206


Numbers 4. Reports of Major General John A. McClernand, U. S. Army, commanding First Division.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, Camp near Pittsburg, Tenn., April 14, 1862.

We have just passed through a terrible, lasting two days. My division, as usual, has borne or shared in bearing the brunt. I have lost killed and wounded about every third man of my command. Within a radius of 200 yards of my headquarters some 150 dead bodies

8 R R-VOL X


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