Abstract from return of the Department of Arkansas, Seventh Army Corps, Major General Frederick Steele, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of January, 1864.

Present for Pieces of

duty. artillery.

Comman Office Men. Aggreg Aggreg Heavy. Field. Headq

d. rs. ate ate uarte

presen presen rs.

t. t and

absent

.

Genera 16 101 133 150 ...... ...... Littl

l e

headqu Rock,

arters Ark.

First 125 3,068 4,549 6,097 ...... 12 Do.

(or

Cavalr

y)

Divisi

on

Second 193 3,806 4,809 7,848 ...... 16 Do.

Divisi

on

Third 116 2,472 3,185 4,815 ...... 10 Do.

Divisi

on

Distri 126 2,416 3,196 4,176 7 2 Helen

ct of a.

Easter

n

Arkans

as

Distri 21 446 1,178 1,311 ...... 2 Bates

ct of ville

Northe .

astern

Arkans

as.

Distri 107 3,094 3,857 5,083 ...... 12

ct of

the

Fronti

er*

Pine 38 616 1,001 1,207 ...... 11

Bluff

(caval

ry

brigad

e),

Ark.

Grand 742 16,019 21,908 30,687 7 65

total

Troops in the Department of Arkansas, Seventh Army Corps, Major General Frederick Steele, U. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1864.

ESCORT.

3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D, Lieutenant Jonathan Kershner.

15th Illinois Cavalry, Company H, Captain Thomas J. Beebe.

FIRST (OR CAVALRY) DIVISION.+

Brigadier General JOHN W. DAVIDSON.

First Brigade.

Colonel JOHN F. RITTER.

13th Illinois (detachment), Lieutenant Colonel Theobold Hartmann.

3rd Iowa (detachment), Lieutenant Franz W. Arnim.

1st Missouri (eight companies), Major Albert P. Peabody.

7th Missouri, Major Henry P. Spellman.

Second Brigade.

Colonel WASHINGTON F. GEIGER.

2nd Missouri, Captain William H. Higdon.

8th Missouri, Major George L. Childress.

Third Brigade.

Colonel DANIEL ANDERSON.

10th Illinois (detachment), Lieutenant Robert J. Bellamy.

1st Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph W. Caldwell.

3rd Missouri, Light, Battery E, Captain Gustave Stange.

Unattached infantry.

24th Missouri, Companies F and K, Captain Sampson P. Barris.

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*Exclusive of those reported in the Department of Kansas. See p. 205.

+At Little Rock, with detachments at Brownsville and Devall's Bluf. The 10th Illinois and 3rd Iowa Regiments and the 25th Ohio Battery on veteran furlough.

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