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607 Series I Volume XXXIV-IV Serial 64 - Red River Campaign Part IV

Page 607 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

Troops in the Department of Arkansas (Seventh Army Corps), Major General Frederick Steele, U. S. Army, commanding, June 30, 1864.

HEADQUARTERS.

3rd Illinois Cavalry, Company D, Captain James K. McLean.

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

DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK.

Brigadier General EUGENE A. CARR.

FIRST DIVISION.*

Brigadier General FREDERICK SALOMON.

Escort.

13th Illinois Cavalry, Company A, Captain Frederick Behlendorff.

First Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES E. SALOMON.

50th Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel T. Wells.

29th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Robert F. Patterson.

33rd Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel John Lofland.

9th Wisconsin, Major Herman Schluter.

28th Wisconsin, Lieutenant Colonel Edmund B. Gray.

Second Brigade.

Colonel ADOLPH ENGELMANN.

43rd Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Adolph Dengler.

43rd Indiana (detachment), Captain Elijah Edington.

36th Iowa, Captain William F. Vermillion.

40th Iowa, Colonel John A. Garrett.

77th Ohio, Colonel William B. Mason.

27th Wisconsin, Colonel Conrad Krez.

Third (or Cavalry) Brigade.

Brigadier General CYRUS BUSSEY.

4th Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel Horace L. Moore.

1st Iowa (detachment), Captain James D. Jenks.

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

1st Missouri (detachment), Captain Gustavus Schreyer.

3rd Missouri, Major John A. Lennon.

Artillery.

Captain GUSTAVE STANGE.

3rd Illinois Battery A, Captain Thomas F. Vaughn.

3rd Iowa Battery, Lieutenant Melvil C. Wright.

2nd Missouri, Battery E, Lieutenant Anthony Boedicker.

25th Ohio Battery, Captain Julius L. Hadley.

Not brigaded.

5th Arkansas (colored), Captain James M. Bowler.

6th Arkansas (colored), Lieutenant Colonel Lauriston W. Whipple.

SECOND DIVISION. +

Brigadier General CHRISTOPHER C. ANDREWS.

Escort.

13th Illinois Cavalry, Company C, Lieutenant James G. Kearney.

First Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM H. GRAVES.

18th Illinois (battalion), Captain Jabey J. Anderson.

54th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Augustus H. Chapman.

61st Illinois, Major Daniel Grass.

12th Michigan, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight May.

3rd Minnesota, Colonel Hans Mattson.

57th U. S. Colored Infantry, Colonel Andrew B. Morrison.

Second Brigade.

Colonel OLIVER WOOD.

2nd Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel Gideon M. Waugh.

62nd Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen M. Meeker.

106th Illinois, Major John M. Hurt.

126th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Ezra M. Beardsley.

22nd Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Homer Thrall.

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*Formerly the Third Division. Reorganized May 11. The 28th Wisconsin at Pine Bluff; remainder of division at Little Rock.

+Reorganized May 11. Troops at Brownsville, Dewll's Bluff, Huntersville, Lewisburg, Little Rock, and Pine Bluff, General Andrews commanding in temporary absence of Brigadier General Joseph R. West.

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