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

Page 283 Chapter XLII. THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., October 4, 1863.

Reports of Casualties in batteries of First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, in battle of Chickamauga, Ga.

Command Battery 1st 4th Total

H,5th Michigan Indiana

Artille Battery Battery

ry

Kil- Officers 1 1 --- 2

led

Enlisted 12 5 1 18

men

Wound Officers 1 --- --- 1

ed

Enlisted 11 6 16 33

men

Missi Officers 1 --- 1 2

ng

Enlisted 13 13 4 30

men

Since Officers --- --- --- ---

parol

ed

Enlisted 4 --- --- 4

men

12- --- --- --- ---

pounder,

light

Offic 10-pounder --- --- --- ---

ers Parrott

and

men

Guns 6-pounder --- --- 1 1

James

rifle

Mater Gun --- --- 2 2

iel carriages

Caiss 12- 4 --- 3 7

ons pounders,

[comp light

l.]

10-pounder 2 2 --- 4

Parrott

Command Battery 1st 4th Total

H, 5th Michigan Indiana

Artillery Battery

Limbers, 12- --- --- --- ---

pounder light

Limbers 10- 1 3 --- 4

pounder

Parrott

Limbers --- --- --- ---

Pistols 8 2 3 13

Sabers 21 1 6 28

Ammunition, 728 380 [a] 1,108

rounds

Blank --- --- --- ---

cartridges,

10-pounder,

rounds

Mater Blank 245 --- --- 245

iel cartridges, 6-

pounder,

rounds

Saddle --- --- --- ---

blankets

Harness 7 5 1/2 2 14 1/2

[sets], 2

wheel horses

Harness, 2 14 12 1/2 12 38 1/2

lead horses

[sets]

Halters --- 40 --- 40

Horses 65 46 34 145

a No report made.

Of the part taken by Battery H, Fifth Artillery, on the 20th and 21st, I have to state that Lieutenant Fessenden fitted up two Napoleon guns on the morning of the 20 th and took position near the Third Brigade, remaining until near noon, when he was ordered to Chattanooga; again on Monday, the 21st, he went back to near Rossville and remained until nightfall with two guns; when he was ordered by Major Mendenhall to proceed with Battery M, Fourth Artillery, to the rear, which he did, and on Tuesday morning his four Napoleon guns were placed in position, while his two Parrott guns were placed in the fort near the river, where they yet remain.

GEO. A. KENSEL,

Captain Fifth Artillery, Chief of Artillery, First Division.

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*See revised statement, p.171.

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