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FIRST DIVISION COLORED TROOPS.

Brigadier General JOHN P. HAWKINS.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General ISAAC F. SHEPARD.

46th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel William F. Wood.

48th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Frederick M. Crandal.

49th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Van E. Young.

53rd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Orlando C. Risdon.

Second Brigade.

Colonel HIRAM SCOFIELD.

47th U. S. Colored Troops, Captain De Witt C. Wilson.

50th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist.

52nd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel George M. Ziegler.

Forces at Vicksburg.

3rd U. S. Colored Cavalry, Colonel Embury D. Osband.

2nd U. S. Colored Artillery, Battery A, Captain Robert Ranney.

4th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Colonel Herman Lieb.

U. S. Forces Goodrich's Landing, &c.

Colonel A. WATSON WEBBER.

51st U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Julian E. Bryant.

66th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel William T. Frohock.

2nd U. S. Colored Light Artillery, Battery B, Captain William M. Pratt.

DEFENSES AND SPOT OF NATCHEZ, MISS.

Brigadier General JAMES M. TUTTLE.

28th Illinois, Major Hinman Rhodes.

29th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Callicott.

58th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Simon M. Perston.

4th Illinois Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Martin M. R. Wallace.

2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery K, Captain Benjamin F. Rodgers.

5th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Colonel Bernard G. Farrar.

THIRD DIVISION.

Brigadier General MORTIMER D. LEGGETT.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General MANNING F. FORCE.

20th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bradley.

31st Illinois, Lt. Colonel Robert N. Pearson.

45th Illinois, Major John O. Duer.

Second Brigade.

Colonel ROBERT K. SCOTT.

20th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Fry.

32nd Ohio, Colonel Benjamin F. Potts.

68th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel George E. Wells.

78th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Greenberry F. Wiles.

Third Brigade (Maltby's).*

Brigadier General JASPER A. MALTBY.

(Reported as garrison of Vicksburg.)

Artillery.

Major THOMAS D. MAURICE.

1st Illinois Light, Battery D, Lieutenant George P. Cunningham.

1st Michigan Light, Battery H, Lieutenant William Justin.

1st Missouri Light, Battery C, Captain John L. Matthaniel.

Ohio Light, 3rd Battery, Lieutenant John Sullivan.

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*See District of Vicksburg, p. 567.

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