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Numbers 134. Organization of the Army of the Mississippi, April 6-7, 1862.*

FIRST CORPS.+

Major General LEONIDAS POLK.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General CHARLES CLARK.

First Brigade.

Colonel R. M. RUSSELL.

11th Louisiana.

12th Tennessee.

13th Tennessee.

22nd Tennessee.

Bankhead's battery.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General A. P. STEWART.

13th Arkansas.

4th Tennessee.

5th Tennessee.

33rd Tennessee.

Stanford's battery.

SECOND DIVISION.

Brigadier General B. F. CHEATHAM.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General B. R. JOHNSON.

Mississippi battalion (Blythe's).

2nd Tennessee.

15th Tennessee.

154th Tennessee (senior).

Polk's battery.

Second Brigade.

Colonel W. H. STEPHENS.

7th Kentucky.

1st Tennessee.

6th Tennessee.

9th Tennessee.

Smith's battery.

SECOND CORPS.

Major General BRAXTON BRAGG.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General DANIEL RUGGLES.

First Brigade.

Colonel R. L. GIBSON.

1st Arkansas.

4th Louisiana.

13th Louisiana.

19th Louisiana.

Bains' battery.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General PATTON ANDERSON.

1st Florida (battalion).

17th Louisiana.

20th Louisiana.

9th Texas.

Confederate Guards Response Battalion.

Hodgson's battery.

Third Brigade.++

Colonel PRESTON POND, Jr.

16th Louisiana.

18th Louisiana.

Crescent (Louisiana) Regiment.

38th Tennessee.

Ketchum's battery.

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*The original was an inclosure to Colonel William P. Johnston's report on p. 780.

+The First Mississippi Cavalry, Brewer's battalion, and Cox's, Jenkins's, Lindsay's, Robins', and Tomlison's cavalry, not accounted for in this table, appear from the reports the have belonged to Polk's corps.

++The Orleans Guard Battalion also belonged to this brigade. See Colonel Pond's report.

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