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as that place and Guntown are threatened by the enemy. Colonel Wheeler, commanding a regiment of cavalry near Guntown, will report to you there. The major-general commanding instructs me to request you to cause General Green's brigade with one battery to move forward without delay.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THOS. L. SNEAD.
Abstract from Return of the District of the Mississippi, commanded by Major General Earl Van Dorn, July, 1862 [headquarters Vicksburg, Miss.]
Present for duty
Troops Office Men Aggregate Aggregate
rs present present and
absent
FIRST SUB-DISTRICT. 22 271 382 592
Sumter Regiment
[30th Louisiana]
Detachment Stewart's 8 211 273 293
Legion
1st Regiment 35 817 852 852
Partisan Rangers
Miles' Legion 22 320 573 599
Magruder Partisans 2 33 35 64
Lewis' Partisans 4 36 41 69
Terrell Dragoons 3 66 76 81
Norman's cavalry 2 34 41 75
Jones' cavalry 4 65 74 78
Semmes' battery 5 91 101 104
Connor Battery 4 50 86 92
Boone's battery 5 118 123 123
Brookhaven Artillery 3 95 105 118
Seven Stars 4 130 135 146
Artillery
SECOND SUB-DISTRICT. 32 371 719 775
4th Louisiana
17th Louisiana 27 373 540 637
26th Louisiana 29 389 721 805
27th Louisiana 26 249 917 973
28th Louisiana 25 278 496 658
3rd Mississippi 35 476 709 886
6th Mississippi 17 161 555 818
Battalion
28th Mississippi 20 285 448 527
Cavalry
English's battery 2 29 32 32
1st Battalion 17 214 398 465
Louisiana Artillery
8th Battalion 9 77 133 259
Louisiana Artillery
1st Mississippi 24 399 625 877
Light Artillery
Regiment heavy 16 153 284 330
artillery
Sappers and Miners 2 12 18 23
THIRD SUB-DISTRICT. 9 91 137 193
1st Alabama
Confederate regiment 32 422 604 791
12th Louisiana 41 546 662 1,043
20th Mississippi 3 37 46 74
33rd Mississippi 31 475 640 984
39th Mississippi - - 76 105
[Company I]
39th Mississippi 29 541 683 846
Stewart's Legion 6 169 190 256
Falkner Partisans - - - 115
Carroll Dragoons - 26 42 71
Jackson's cavalry 39 581 696 1,087
Pinson's cavalry 22 220 299 801
Ward's Battalion 10 96 137 172
Artillery
Sappers and Miners 1 41 48 53
FOURTH SUB-DISTRICT. 3 96 109 127
Porter's Partisans
Battalion Zouaves 4 102 114 165
Escort cavalry 3 33 55 58
Grand total 637 9,279 14,030 18,292
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