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

Page 597 Chapter LIX. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS.

Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, One hundred and eleventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Sixtieth New York Veteran Volunteers, One hundred and second New York Veteran Volunteers. The balance of the troops coming within the provisions of General Orders, Numbers 94, War Department, 1865, were mustered out of the service, the muster being completed on the 13th of June.

I hereto append a list of the casualties* which occurred during the campaign. I forward herewith the reports of division and subordinate commanders.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOS. A. MOWER,

Major-General of Volunteers, Commanding Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel T. S. BOWERS, Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADDENDA.


HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., April 3, 1865.

Major DECHERT,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: In compliance with the request of the major-general commanding Left Wing I have the honor to inclose herewith the report of the provost-marshal of this corps of the prisoners of war, &c., forwarded from Fayetteville and Goldsborough.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOS. A. MOWER,

Major-General, Commanding

[Inclosure.]


HDQRS. TWENTIETH CORPS, PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., April 3, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel H. W. PERKINS, Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of prisoners of was forwarded and properly paroled during past campaign: Number sent from Fayetteville to Wilmington, N. C., none. Number sent from Fayetteville to New Berne, N. C., prisoners of war, 269; deserters, 66. Number turned over to post provost-marshal at Goldsborough, N. C., prisoners of war, 4; deserters, 32. Total number of commissioned officers forwarded to New Berne, 12. Total properly paroled, 67. Grand total, 450.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WARHAM PARKS,

Major and Provost-Marshall.


Numbers 132. Report of Brigadier General Nathaniel J. Jackson, U. S. Army, commanding First Division, of operations January 17-Match 24.


HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, TWENTIETH CORPS,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., March 29, 1865.

COLONEL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this division from the time of leaving Savannah, Ga., January 17, 1865, until its arrival at this point March 24, 1865:

At 7 a.m. January 17 the division broke camp before the city of Savannah, and crossing the Savannah River on the pontoon bridge

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*Shows 1 man killed and 3 men wounded.

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