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

Page 595 Chapter L. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE
TENNESSEE, Numbers 50.
Near Kenesaw Mountain, June 25, 1864.

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V. Major General John A. Logan, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps, will, at 3 p. m. the 25th instant, move his Fourth Division, Brigadier-General Harrow commanding, over to the right of Left Wing, Sixteenth Army Corps, Major-General Dodge commanding, and relieve Brigadier General Jeff. C. Davis' division, Fourteenth Army Corps, The troops will take their camp and garrison equipage, ammunition, artillery, &c. The command having taken up the position as herein ordered, the fact will be reported to these headquarters.

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By order of Major General James B. McPherson:

WM. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Consolidated field return of the artillery of the Army of the Tennessee for the week ending June 25, 1864.

Effective force

Batteries Division Officers Men Guns Caisson

s

Fifteenth Army Corps

4th Ohio Battery First 4 96 6 6

2nd Missouri ..do.. 3 117 4 4

Artillery (F)

1st Illinois Second 2 110 4 4

Artillery (A)

1st Illinois ..do.. 3 103 4 4

Artillery (B)

1st Illinois ..do.. 2 97 4 4

Artillery (H)

1st Iowa Battery Fourth 4 126 6 6

1st Illinois ..do.. 5 136 6 6

Artillery (F)

Sixteenth Army

Corps:

1st Missouri Second 2 127 6 6

Artillery (B)

1st Michigan ..do.. 3 122 4 4

Artillery (C)

1st Michigan ..do.. ....... .... .... ......

Artillery (B) a

14th Ohio Battery Fourth 3 124 6 6

2nd U. S. Artillery ..do.. 4 140 6 6

(F)

Seventeenth Army

Corps:

3rd Ohio Battery Third 2 122 4 4

1st Illinois ..do.. 4 134 4 4

Artillery (D)

1st Michigan ..do.. 4 100 6 6

Artillery (H)

15th Ohio Battery Fourth 3 129 6 6

10th Ohio Battery ..do.. 2 123 4 4

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

Battery

1st Missouri ..do.. 3 100 4 4

Artillery (C)

2nd Illinois ..do.. ....... .... ... ......

Artillery (F) b

Grand total ....... 55 2,147 90 90

Batteries Rounds of Horses Casualties -

ammunition Men wounded

on hand

Fifteenth Army Corps

4th Ohio Battery 597 125 .......

2nd Missouri Artillery 624 73 1

(F)

1st Illinois Artillery 409 80 .......

(A)

1st Illinois Artillery 450 90 .......

(B)

1st Illinois Artillery 448 84 ........

(H)

1st Iowa Battery 864 117 .......

1st Illinois Artillery 659 111 .......

(F)

Sixteenth Army Corps:

1st Missouri Artillery 752 121 ........

(B)

1st Michigan Artillery 688 78 ........

(C)

1st Michigan Artillery ........ ...... .........

(B) a

14th Ohio Battery 1,091 84 ........

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

Seventeenth Army Corps:

3rd Ohio Battery 448 75 ........

1st Illinois Artillery 354 83 ........

(D)

1st Michigan Artillery 980 82 ........

(H)

15th Ohio Battery 664 96 .........

10th Ohio Battery 519 78 ........

1st Minnesota Battery 1,119 94 ........

1st Missouri Artillery 1,008 54 .........

(C)

2nd Illinois Artillery ........ ..... .........

(F) b

Grand total 12,454 1,649 1

a Battery at Rome, Ga. No return.

b No report received.

A. HICKENLOOPER,

Captain and Chief of Artillery, Army and Dept. of the Tennessee.

KENESAW MOUNTAIN, GA.,

June 25, 1864.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. THIRD DIV., TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS,

June 25, 1864.

An unusual quiet on the part of an enemy generally means something. It may be that they are leaving, but vigilance must [not] be abated,


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