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Report of effective strength of Fifteenth Army Corps.
Station. Command. Officers Men. Aggregat
. e.
Big Shanty, First Division, 224 3,390 3,614
Ga. General Osterhaus
Second Division, 225 3,859 4,084
General M. L.
Smith
Fourth Division, 257 4,983 5,240
General Harrow
Total present in 706 12,232 12,938
the field
Huntsville, Third Division, 267 4,756 5,023
Ala. General J. E.
Smith
Grand total 973 16,988 17,961
R. R. TOWNES,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Big Shanty, Ga., June 11, 1864.
HEADQUARTERS SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,In the Field, June 11, 1864 - 9.45 a. m.
Brigadier-General GRESHAM,
Commanding Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps:
GENERAL: Inclosed please find a copy of Field Orders, Numbers 36, from headquarters of the Department and Army of the Tennessee.* The major-general commanding desires you to move your division in compliance with this order, communicating at once with division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, which is to move on your right in order that no delay may occur in the movement. He desires you to communicate freely and frequently to him anything you may consider of any importance.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. J. ALEXANDER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Big Shanty, June 11, 1864.General WILLIAM SOOY SMITH,
Chief of Cavalry, Nashville:
Continue to procure months for cavalry and send forward by regiments as they are ready. The enemy far outnumbers me in cavalry, and limits my operations, which, with more cavalry, I could make more rapid and decisive.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
HDQRS. FIRST CAV. DIV., DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Hicks' House, June 11, 1864.Brigadier-General ELLIOTT,
Chief of Cavalry, Department of the Cumberland:
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that the patrols of the Second Indiana Cavalry captured 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, and 7 men this morn-
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* See p. 460.
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