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brigade during the campaign Bvt. Brigadier General William B. Woods to the rank of full brigadier-general and I also recommend with pleasure the promotion of Colonel R. F. Catterson (Ninety-seventh Indiana Infantry), commanding Second Brigade, to the rank of brigadier-general. Colonel Catterson has long commanded the Second Brigade of this division, and he has shown himself ever to be a brave, gallant, and competent officer, and one well meriting promotion.

The officers and men throughout my division have all borne a noble, manly part in the campaign, enduring hardship and labor without murmuring, and bearing themselves well when before the enemy. I mention the names as conspicuous for gallantry amongst many: Captain Allen, of the Twenty-fifth Iowa, who lost a leg in the fighting of the 20th; Captain Teale, of the Fourth Iowa, who lost a leg in the fighting of his brigade commander, who was severely wounded on the 21st; Captain Burch, of the Consolidated Battalion Thirty-first and Thirty-second Missouri, badly hurt on the 21st, and Lieutenant and Adjutant Lermond, One hundred and third Illinois, also wounded on the 21st. Had I space I would gladly mention many more brave men that came under my notice.

To the various members of my staff - Doctor French, surgeon-in-chief; Major Perkins, chief of staff; Captain Alexander, assistant commissary of musters; Captain Smith, acting assistant inspector-general; Captain Henry, provost-marshal; Captain Wilson, acting assistant adjutant-general, and my two aides-de-camp, Lieutenants Critz and Marriott - I tender my thanks for the willing and able service they have rendered me, whether in camp, on the march, or on the field of battle.

I have the honor to be, major, with respect, your obedient servant,

CHAS. R. WOODS,

Brevet Major-General.

Major MAX WOODHULL,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Fifteenth Army Corps.

[Inclosure.]


HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
OFFICE OF PROVOST-MARSHAL,

In the Field, N. C., March 23, 1864.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of prisoners of war, captured by this division during the past campaign, commencing on the 27th day of January and ending on the 22nd day of March, 1865, viz:

Colonel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Captains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

First lieutenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Second lieutenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Sergeants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Corporals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Privates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Total commissioned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Total non-commissioned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Total privates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

I have the honor to be, very respectfully,

GEO. A. HENRY,

Captain and Provost-Marshal.

Captain FRED H. WILSON,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps.


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