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439 Series I Volume XLVII-I Serial 98 - Columbia Part I

Page 439 Chapter LIX. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS.

Report of provost-marshal, Fourteenth Army Corps, commencing January 25 and ending March 24, 1865.

Arrests Prisoners of war

Officers Men Total Officers Men Total

Headquarters . . . . 15 15 2 21 23

. . .

First . . . . 53 53 6 106 112

Division . . .

Second . . . . 35 35 16 263 279

Division . . .

Third . . . . 19 19 3 129 132

Division a . . .

Total . . . . 122 122 27 519 546

. . .

Deserters Prisoners paroled

Officers Men Total Officers Men Total

Headquarters . . . . 2 2 4 97 101

. .

First . . . . . . . . . . 1 15 16

Division . . . .

Second . . . . 10 10 . . . . . . . . . .

Division . . . . . . . . .

Third . . . . 23 23 2 65 67

Division a . .

Total . . . . 35 35 7 117 184

. .

Killed Wounded Missing Total Killed Wounded

Head- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

quarters . . . . . . . . . . .

First 4 20 1 25 59 283

Division

Second 6 26 . . . . 32 77 380

Division . . .

Third . . . . . . . 1 1 3 14

Division a . . . .

Total 10 46 2 58 139 677

Missing Total Aggregate

Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . .

First Division 93 335 360

Second Division 73 530 562

Third Division a 61 78 79

Total 227 943 1,001

a Third Brigade of this division absent.

JOHN B. LEE,

Major and Provost-Marshal, Fourteenth Army Corps.

GOLDSBOROUGH, N. C.


Numbers 63. Report of Surg. Waldo C. Daniels, U. S. Army, Medical Director, of operations January 20-March 24.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, MEDICAL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,
Goldsborough, N. C., April 4, 1865.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the recent campaign made by the Fourteenth Army Corps from Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C., commencing January 20 and ending March 24, in its relation to the medical department:

The command, 21,000 strong, with an effective force of 16,500 officers and men, left Savannah, Ga., on the morning of the 20th of January, with orders to move on the west side of the Savannah River to Sister's Ferry, a distance of forty-five miles. Orders were received at this time from department headquarters that all sick and wounded men unable to make the campaign should be left at Savannah, in conformity with which (a corps hospital having been previously established in the city) 650 men were sent in. This unusually large number was easily to be accounted for by the fact that the command for the mouth previous were unavoidably camped on low swampy ground northwest from the city, and which, for a large portion of the time, was literally submerged by water. Previous to our department from Savannah the division hospitals of the corps were amply supplied with medicines and hos-


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