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745 Series I Volume XXXIX-II Serial 78 - Allatoona Part II

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[Inclosure Numbers 1.] Morning report of the cavalry DIVISION commanded by Brigadier General Wirt Adams.

Present

Command Effective Total Aggregate

total

Field and staff . . . . . . . . . 9

. . . . .

Scott's cavalry brigade 1,314 1,530 1,654

Gholson's cavalry brigade 1,103 1,264 1,412

Wood's cavalry brigade 619 688 727

Mabry's cavalry brigade 1,093 1,382 1,476

First MISSISSIPPI Light 67 79 85

Artillery, Company A.

Total 4,196 4,943 5,363

Present and absent

Command Total Aggregate Stations

Field and staff . . . 9

. .

Scott's cavalry brigade 3,489 3,703 East Louisiana.

Gholson's cavalry brigade 2,746 2,933 Montgomery, Ala.

Wood's cavalry brigade 1,110 1,172 In the field.

Mabry's cavalry brigade 2,724 2,887 Do.

First MISSISSIPPI Light 209 215 Do.

Artillery, Company A.

Total 10,278 10,919

Respectfully submitted and forwarded.

WIRT ADAMS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

ALLEN T. BOWIE, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure Numbers 2.] Report of organization of Adams' Cavalry DIVISION.

Scott's Brigade.

1st Louisiana Cavalry, Colonel John S. Scott.

9th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, Colonel James H. Wingfield.

Powers' (Louisiana and Mississippi) cavalry regiment, Colonel Frank P. Powers.

Lay's (Mississippi) cavalry, Colonel Benjamin D. Lay.

Gober's mounted infantry, Colonel Daniel Gober.

Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick N. Ogden.

Louisiana Battery, Captain Eugene Holmes.

Mabry's Brigade.

4th MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, Colonel C. C. Wilbourn.

6th MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, Colonel Isham Harrison.

14th Confederate Cavalry, Colonel F. Dumonteil.

38th MISSISSIPPI Mounted Infantry, Colonel Preston Brent.

11th and 17th Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Colonel John Griffith.

Wood's Brigade.

Wood's (Mississippi) cavalry, Colonel Robert C. Wood, Jr.

MISSISSIPPI Cavalry Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel George Moorman.

Cavalry Battalion State Troops, Major E. A. Peyton.

Cavalry Battalion State Troops, Major G. W. Stubbs.

Gholson's Brigade.

3rd MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, Colonel John McGuirk.

MISSISSIPPI Cavalry Regiment, Colonel T. W. Ham.

MISSISSIPPI Cavalry Regiment, Colonel Thomas C. Ashcraft.

MISSISSIPPI Cavalry Regiment, Colonel William L. Lowry.

Unattached.

Company A, 1st MISSISSIPPI Light Artillery, Captain William T. Ratliff.

ALLEN T. BOWIE,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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