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HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., March 30, 1865.

Captain ROBERT P. DECHERT,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report of casualties which occurred in my command since the 16th instant:

Killed. Wounded. Missing.

Comman Officer Men. Officers Men. Officers Men Tota

d. s. . . . l.

First . . 9 2 67 1 47 126

Divisi

on

Second . . 1 . . 3 . . 21 25

Divisi

on

Third . . 12 6 115 . . 30 163

Divisi

on

Total . . 22 8 185 1 98 314

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. S. WILLIAMS,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., March 30, 1865.

Captain ROBERT DECHERT,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to forward the following report of prisoners captured from the enemy since the 16th instant:

Well. Wounded. Interred.

Command Officer Men Officer Men. Officer Men. Total

. s. . s. s. .

First 2 65 . . 10 . . 78 155

Divisio

n

Third . . 28 . . 1 . . 4 33

Divisio

n

Total 2 93 . . 11 . . 82 188

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. S. WILLIAMS,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

Journal accompanying campaign maps* exhibiting the line of March of the Twentieth Army Corps from Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C., January 17 to March 24, 1865, submitted with report of Bvt. Major General A. S. Williams, U. S. Army, dated March 31, 1865.

January 17. -Third Division moved to Hardeeville with the Second Brigade at Purysburg. The First Division followed on the 18th and arrived at Purysburg on the 19th, Second Division remaining in Savan-

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*See Plate LXXX of the Atlas.

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