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when the battery was next near Averasborough, S. C., firing 172 rounds; loss, 3 horses wounded. On the morning of the 17th found the enemy had abandoned his works. We were ordered to accompany the Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, in the direction of Raleigh, as far as Averasborough, for the purpose of covering the flank of the main column moving on the Goldsborough road. On the morning of the 18th we joined the main column and marched with the troops of the Twentieth Army Corps in the direction of Bentonville. When near this place on the 19th day of March the battery was again engaged, firing fifty-six rounds with no casualties. On the morning of March 22 found the enemy had evacuated the night before. We again marched toward Goldsborough, via Cox's Bridge, where we arrived on the 24th, and now in camp about one mile and a half northwest of the town. *

All of which is respectfully submitted.

CHAS. E. WINEGAR,

Captain, First New York Artillery, Commanding Battery I.

Lieutenant W. H. MICKLE,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, Arty. Brigadier, Twentieth Army Corps.


HDQRS. BATTERY I, FIRST NEW YORK ARTILLERY,
Near Goldsborough, N. C., March 25, 1865.

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report the following as an approximate statement of horses captured, abandoned, died, &c. ; also commissaries and quartermaster's stores captured during the campaign just closed:

Horses captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Mules captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Horses abandoned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Horses died. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Horses turned over to quartermaster's department. . . . . 19

Mules turned over to quartermaster's department. . . . . . 12

Hay captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tons. . . 2

Corn fodder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . 40

Corn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . 30

Ham and bacon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds. . . 4,500

Sweet potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . barrels. . 30

Wheat flour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . 6

Corn meal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do. . . . . 2

All of which is respectfully submitted.

CHAS. E. WINEGAR,

Captain, First New York Artillery, Commanding Battery I.

Lieutenant W. H. MICKLE,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, Arty. Brigadier, Twentieth Army Corps.


Numbers 208. Report of Lieutenant Warren L. Scott, Battery I, First New York Light Artillery, of operations April 10-May 26.


HDQRS. BATTERY I, FIRST NEW YORK ARTILLERY,
Near Washington, D. C., May 26, 1865.

SIR: In compliance with circular from corps headquarters, office chief of artillery, May 26, I have the honor to submit the following

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*Tabular statement of ammunition expended (here omitted) embodied in Reynolds' report, p. 847.

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