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415 Series I Volume XXXVIII-III Serial 74 - The Atlanta Campaign Part III

Page 415 Chapter L. REPORTS, ETC.-ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

RECAPITULATION.a

Effective strength Second Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, at commencement and end of campaign.

May 3, 1864.

Command Officers Men Total

First Brigade 86 2,079 2,165

Second Brigade 92 2,294 2,386

Third Brigade 96 1,983 2,079

Artillery 11 516 527

Aggregate 285 6,872 7,157

Command Officers Men Total Loss during

campaign

First Brigade 47 1,173 1,220 945

Second Brigade 48 1,240 1,288 1,098

Third Brigade 76 1,599 1,675 b 404

Artillery 6 216 222 c 305

Aggregate 177 4,228 4,405 d 2,752

a The effective strength in the above recapitulation includes the pioneer corps of the division, which was not embraced in the effective strength given at the commencement of this official report of the campaign.

b The loss of the Third Brigade is comparatively small, owing to its having been detached May 21, 1864, and sent to Rome, Ga. (which it garrison at present), and not having taken an active part in the field since that date.

c The main loss of the artillery has been occasioned by transfer of Battery I, First Missouri Light Artillery, and muster out.

d This being a veteran division, the main loss during the campaign viz, 57 commissioned officers and 1,038 enlisted men, has been caused by resignation and muster out, by virtue of expiration of term of service.

Casualties, captures, etc.

Killed Wounded Missing

Command Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men

First 1 46 10 275 1 2

Brigade

Second 8 87 15 385 ...... 38

Brigade

Third ...... 2 2 25 ...... .....

Brigade

Artillery ...... 2 ....... 26 ...... .....

Aggregate 9 137 27 711 1 40

Command Officers Men Aggregate Approxim Pri- Stand

ate soners of

distance colors

marched

(miles)

First 12 333 335 500 159 2

Brigade

Second 23 510 533 500 660 2

Brigade

Third 2 27 29 500 .... ....

Brigade

Artille ...... 28 28 500 .... ....

ry

Aggrega 37 888 925 500 819 a 4

te

Command Small arms Guns Rebel dead buried on front

First 777 .... 163

Brigade

Second ...... 4 ......

Brigade

Third ...... ..... ......

Brigade

Artillery ...... ..... ......

Aggregate 777 b 4 163

a Colors captured, as follows, viz, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 2; 66th Indiana Volunteers Infantry Regiment, 1; 2nd Iowa, 1.

b Four 20-pounder guns, belonging to Captain De Gress' battery (of Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps), recaptured July 22, by Second Brigade.

Artillery ammunition expended as follows, viz, 3,674 rounds for 12-pounder light gun, 910 rounds for 10-pounder, Parrott gun, 300 rounds for 3-inch Parrott gun, 1,174 rounds for 4 1/2-inch siege gun; total, 6,058.

Infantry ammunition expended during campaign, viz, 714, 130 rounds elongated ball cartridge, caliber .58; 83,500 rounds Henry rifle cartridge, caliber .44; 11,088 rounds Spencer rifle cartridge, caliber .52; total, 808,718. An approximate average of 350 rounds, per man, for the actual force (viz, First and Second Brigades) in the field.

ADDENDA.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SECOND DIV., 16TH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 14.
Kingston, Ga., May 21, 1864.

I. Owing to the continued movement of the troops of this command since the engagement at Lay's Ferry, the general commanding has not been able to express his thanks to the officers and men of his division in general orders for their gallant behavior at Snake Creek Gap, and thence to Resaca, and at the crossing of Lay's Ferry, on the 14th and 15th of May, 1864. He now avails himself of the op-


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