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561 Series I Volume XXXIV-III Serial 63 - Red River Campaign Part III

Page 561 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.


HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., May 12, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, District of Little Rock:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date, requiring a report of the approximate strength of the infantry of the strength at different localities:

Command Station. Officers. Men. Aggregate.

12th Little Rock 24 545 569

Michigan

Infantry

61st do 25 394 420

Illinois

Infantry

54th do 29 460 489

Illinois

Infantry

57th U. S. do 20 368 388

Infantry

(colored)

Total ........... 115 2,062 2,177

Infantry

Detachment Little Rock 1 47 48

5th Ohio

Battery

Battery D, do .......... ........... ..........

2nd

Missouri

Artillery

a

Total ........... 1 47 48

Artillery

22nd Ohio Brownsville 27 474 501

Infantry Ark

106th do 15 400 415

Illinois

Infantry

Total do 42 874 916

Infantry

126 Devall's 17 424 441

Illinois Bluff

Infantry

3rd Pine Bluff 20 447 467

Minnesota

Infantry

62nd do 28 578 606

Illinois

Infantry

18th do 17 280 297

Illinois

Infantry

Total .......... 65 1,305 1,370

Infantry

5th Ohio Pine Bluff 1 80 81

Battery

11th Ohio do 3 126 129

Battery

Total ........... 4 206 210

artillery

a Has never reported in Second Division.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

PINE BLUFF, May 12, 1864.

Major W. D. GREEN, Assistant Adjutant-General.

My scouts from the Saline bring me the information that the enemy are preparing crossings 7 miles below Mount Elba and at Long View; they have a bridge also at Jenkins' Ferry. I think they intend crossing the Saline a with large cavalry force. I am anxious to get in as much forage as I can, so that in case in case they should invest this post it will not be necessary to send out forage trains. With a view to that end, I request that the steamer Miller be ordered to report to my quartermaster for foraging purposes. Our horses are very much in need of hay; it impossible to get anything of the kind here. I hope the quartermaster at Little Rock will be ordered to supply us.

POWELL CLAYTON,

Colonel, Commanding.

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