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518 Series I Volume XXXVIII-IV Serial 75 - The Atlanta Campaign Part IV

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Consolidated weekly field report of the artillery in the Department and Army of the Tennessee for the week ending Saturday, June 18, 1864.

Effective

force.

Battery. Divisio Officer Men. Guns.

n. s.

Fifteenth Army Corps:

4th Ohio Battery. First. 4 101 6

2nd Missouri Light ...do.. 3 115 4

Artillery (Battery F).

1st Illinois Artillery Second. 2 106 4

(Battery A).

1st Illinois Artillery ...do.. 4 101 4

(Battery B).

1st Illinois Artillery ...do.. 2 96 4

(Battery H).

1st Iowa Battery. Fourth. 5 148 6

1st Illinois Light ...do.. 4 124 6

Artillery (Battery F).

Sixteenth Army Corps, Left

Wing.

1st Missouri Artillery Second. {a1 a 29

(H).

{1 92
6

1st Michigan Artillery ...do.. 3 124 4

(C).

14th Ohio Battery. Fourth. 4 128 6

2nd U. S. Artillery (F). ..do. 3 136 6

Seventeenth Army Corps:

3rd Ohio Battery. Third. 1 117 4

1st Illinois (Company D). ..do.. 5 133 4

1st Michigan (Company H). ..do.. 4 101 6

15th Ohio Battery. Fourth. 3 129 6

10th Ohio Battery. ..do.. 2 92 4

1st Minnesota Battery. ..do.. 3 136 6

2nd Illinois (Company Fb). ..do.. 2 110 6

1st Missouri (Company Cb). ..do.. 2 81 4

Total. ... 58 2.199 96

Battery. Caisson Rounds Horses. Casual

s. of ties -

ammunit men

ion on wounde

band. d.

Fifteenth Army Corps:

4th Ohio Battery. 6 320 125 ...

2nd Missouri Light 4 322 85 ...

Artillery (Battery F).

1st Illinois Artillery 4 413 80 ...

(Battery A).

1st Illinois Artillery 4 530 90 ...

(Battery B).

1st Illinois Artillery 4 329 88 ...

(Battery H).

1st Iowa Battery. 6 659 102 ...

1st Illinois Light 6 864 117 ...

Artillery (Battery F).

Sixteenth Army Corps, Left

Wing.

1st Missouri Artillery 6 742 119 ...

(H).

1st Michigan Artillery 4 690 81 1

(C).

14th Ohio Battery. 6 1.120 84 2

2nd U. S. Artillery (F). 6 810 114 2

Seventeenth Army Corps:

3rd Ohio Battery. 4 591 78 ...

1st Illinois (Company D). 4 366 85 2

1st Michigan (Company H). 6 1.122 82 ...

15th Ohio Battery. 6 633 101 ...

10th Ohio Battery. 4 705 87 ...

1st Minnesota Battery. 6 802 95 ...

2nd Illinois (Company Fb). 6 648 67 ...

1st Missouri (Company Cb). 4 608 59 ...

Total. 96 12.274 1.739 7

a Attached to company.

b At Allatoona.

A. HICKENLOOPER,

Captain Fifth Ohio Battery and Acting Chief of Artillery,

Army and Department of the Tennessee.

IN THE FIELD, NEAR BIG SHANTY, GA.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV OF THE MISS., Numbers 26.
In the Field, Big Shanty, June 18, 1864.

I. The Ninety-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry is hereby transferred from the Department and Army of the Cumberland to the Department and Army of the Ohio, and the commanding officer will report to Major General J. M. Schofield for orders.

II. The Forty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry is hereby transferred from the Department and Army of the Ohio to the Department and Army of the Cumberland, and the commanding officer will report to Major General G. H. Thomas for orders.

By order of Major General W. T. Sherman:

L. M. DAYTON,

Aide-de-Camp.

WASHINGTON, June 19, 1864.

Major-General SHERMAN:

General Grant' army has accomplished its movement across the James River without loss of any kind. Everything is over. Petersburg was attacked two days ago. The main works have been carried,


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