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RAYMOND, May 12.

Command. Killed Wounded Missing Total

First Brigade, general

John E. Smith

commanding:

Commissioned officers 4 10 2 16

Enlisted men 23 163 23 219

SECOND Brigade, general

E. S. Dennis

commanding:

Commissioned officers

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2

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2

Enlisted men 10 73

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83

THIRD Brigade, General

John D. Stevenson

commanding:

Commissioned officers 3 5

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8

Enlisted men 15 82 7 104

Total 432

CHAMPION'S HILL, May 16.

First Brigade, general

John E. Smith

commanding:

Commissioned officers

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13

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13

Enlisted men 22 91 9 123

SECOND Brigade, general

M. D. Leggett

commanding:

Commissioned officers 2 14

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16

Enlisted men 17 172 2 191

THIRD Brigade, general

John D. Stevenson

commanding:

Commissioned officers

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4

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4

Enlisted men 7 32 18 57

Total 403

The entire loss in the artillery of the THIRD DIVISION, Major C. J. Stolbrand commanding, in the three engagements enumerated in the foregoing report, was as follows: De Golyer's (Eighth Michigan) Battery, enlisted men killed, 2; wounded, 3; total, 5.

RECAPITULATION.

Thompson's Hill, May 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Raymond, May 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *432 Champion's Hill, May 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Artillery in the three engagements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Grand total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886

Respectfully submitted.

JOHN A. LOGAN,

Major-General of Volunteers.

Lieutenant Colonel W. T. CLARK,

Assistant Adjutant-General, SEVENTEENTH Army Corps.

Number 24. Report of Colonel Manning F. Force, Twentieth Ohio Infantry, SECOND Brigade

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, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to report that the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry arrived on the field in front of Port Gibson on the morning of the 1st instant, too late to take part in the engagement of that day.

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*But see revised statement, p. 706.

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