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Report of casualties of the Fourteenth Army Corps, &c.-Continued.

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officers. Men. Officers. Men.

Third Division:

Headquarters. ... ... 1 ...

First Brigade. ... 2 1 9

Second Brigade. ... 1 ... 6

Third Brigade. 3 72 18 248

Total. 3 75 20 263

Grand total. 14 208 62 883

Missing. Total.

Command. Officers Men. Officers Men. Aggreg

ate.

Third Division:

Headquarters. ... ... 1 ... 1

First Brigade. ... ... 1 11 12

Second Brigade. ... ... ... 7 7

Third Brigade. ... .. 21 320 341

Total. 1 104 23 338 361

Grand total. 77 1,195 1,272

JEF. C. DAVIS,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Jonesborough, Ga., September 3, 1864.


Numbers 90.

Report of Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson, U. S. Army, commanding First Division, of operations May 3-June 13 and July 13-August 7.


HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Atlanta, Ga., August --, 1864.

CAPTAIN: In accordance with military usage, I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my division from the opening of the campaign of the armies under command of Major-General Sherman down to the 13th of June, at which period I was compelled by a disability resulting from injuries received in action to turn over the command to Brigadier-General King:

On the 3rd of May, pursuant to instructions received from the major-general commanding corps, I moved from Graysville, Ga., to Ringgold, Ga., leaving an outpost of two regiments, the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry and Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry, at Parker's Gap, to hold that pass until the advance of the troops from the direction of Cleveland should cover it. On the day but one following, these regiments having been relieved, were transferred to the brigade of General Turchin, in the Third Division. The 4th, 5th, and 6th of May was spent in bivouac near Ringgold, waiting the concentration of the army and completing our preparations for the campaign. On the 7th, leaving all transportation, save the ambulances and ordnance trains, I marched at daylight in rear of General Davis' division, by the main Ringgold and Dalton road, in the direction of Tunnel Hill, near Terrell's house. By direction of the major-general commanding corps, I filed to the right and formed my division, with two brigades on the line and one in reserve, on the right of General Davis' division, my right brigade (General Carlin's) resting across the East Chickamauga, but in good communication with my left, and reserve brigade by the brigade at Dunn's Mill, which lay directly in rear of the left of Carlin's second line. Later in the day,


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