Constructed:

Corduroy road for wagons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 miles, 1,553 yards

Bridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Side road for troops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 miles, 627 yards

Infantry intrenchments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 mile, 520 yards

Batteries (1 for 2 guns, 1 for 3 guns). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Cleared: Obstructed road and swamps. . . . . . . . . . . . yards . . . . 650

Ordnance destroyed by Third Division was destroyed be detail in conjunction with other divisions.

Expended:

Ammunition, infantry, . 58 caliber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,000

Ammunition, 12-pounder shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Wagons, six-mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Command marched 432 miles, crossed Whippy Swamp, Big and Little Salkehatchie, South and North Forks Edisto, Saluda, Broad, Wateree, Great Pedee, South River, Cape Fear and Neuse Rivers and countless swamps.

M. F. FORCE,

Brigadier-General.

Numbers 55. Report of Bvt. Major General Giles A. Smith, U. S. Army, commanding Fourth Division, of operations January 6-March 24.

HDQRS. FOURTH DIVISION, SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Goldsborough, N. C., March 25, 1865.

I have the honor to report the following operations of the troops under my command during the campaign through South and North Carolina just closed by the occupation of Goldsborough:

On Friday, January 6, my division embarked on transports at Thunderbolt Landing six miles below Savannah, and arrived at Beaufort the next day. January 13, by order of Major General F. P. Blair, it moved with the Seventeenth Army Corps toward Pocotaligo, crossed the River at Port Royal Ferry, next day advanced to Garden's Corners, where the enemy were intrenched. After skirmishing for some time they were driven back and followed closely to Pocotaligo, where we arrived about dark and went into position, and at daylight next morning found the enemy's works were evacuated. Remained at this point getting supplies and awaiting the arrival of the remainder of the army until January 29, when we moved in a northwesterly direction.

On Thursday, the 2nd of February, the Seventeenth Army Corps arrived at Rivers' Bridge across the Salkehatchie River. The First Division in the advance skirmished heavily with the enemy all day, driving them across the River; they were strongly intrenched on the opposite side, and also at Braxton's Bridge, five miles above. The River was bordered on each side by a wide and almost impenetrable swamp, crossed by a long causeway and a succession of bridges, the former of which, being burned, rendered the crossing in front of the enemy impossible. In accordance with orders received from Major General F. P. Blair, at 2 p.m. on Friday, February 3, I proceeded with my division to cross the Salkehatchie River and Swamp between Broxton's and Rivers Bridges. Two regiments of my command, the Fifty-third Indiana and Thirteenth Iowa, were, by General Blair's order left at Broxton's Bridge to keep up an appearance of crossing at that point. The apparently impassable swamp had been reconnoitered by fifty men from the Thirty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under com-