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233 Series I Volume XXX-I Serial 50 - Chickamauga Part I

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and being variously estimated from 80,000 to 100,000 infantry and 15,000 to 20,000 cavalry, with an unusual quantity of artillery. By some, including 10,000 Georgia militia, it is thought their infantry force numbered 120,000.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. M. WILES,

Lieutenant-Colonel, and Provost-Marshal-General.

Brigadier General JAMES A. GARFIELD,

Chief of Staff.


Numbers 9.

Report of Captain Horace Porter, U. S. Ordnance Corps, Chief of Ordnance.

ORDNANCE OFFICE, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, October 1, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of ordnance and ordnance stores expended, captured, and lost in the battle of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863:

Pieces of artillery captured ....................... 36

Artillery carriages captured ....................... 36

Caissons captured .................................. 22

Limbers captured ................................... 20

Rifled muskets lost and captured ...................8,008

Spencer rifles lost and captured ................... 70

Carbines lost and captured ......................... 350

Colt's revolving rifles lost and captured .......... 22

Colt's revolving pistols lost and captured ......... 410

Cavalry sabers lost and captured ................... 305

Sets of infantry accouterments lost and captured ...5,834

Rounds of artillery ammunition expended in firing...7,325

Rounds of artillery ammunition lost and captured ...2,550

Rounds of infantry ammunition expended in fi-

ring ...........................................2,529,952

Rounds of infantry ammunition lost and captured ..150,280

Rounds of cavalry ammunition expended in firing...121,000

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HORACE PORTER,

Captain of Ordnance, U. S. Army.

Brig. General JAMES A. GARFIELD,

Chief of Staff.


Numbers 10.

Report of Colonel James Barnett, First Ohio Light Artillery, Chief of Artillery.

OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ARTY., DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, Chattanooga, October 10, 1863.

COLONEL: I have the honor to present, for the information of the general commanding, the following report, showing the batteries engaged in the recent battle of Chickamauga:

FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS.

First Division.-Battery H, Fifth U. S. Artillery, Lieutenant Burnham commanding: Four 12-pounder Napoleons, two 10-pounder


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