DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.

Brigadier General JACOB AMMEN.

39th Illinois (detachment,), Captain Oscar F. Rudd.

113th Illinois (five companies), Captain George W. Lyman.

16th Illinois Cavalry (seven companies), Colonel Christian Thielemann.*

1st Michigan Sharpshooters, Major John Piper.

U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps (six companies), Lieutenant Colonel Carlisle Boyd.

9th Vermont, Company G, Lieutenant William C. Holman.

DISTRICT OF INDIANA AND MICHIGAN.

Colonel JOHN S. SIMONSON.

63rd Indiana (four companies), Major Henry Tindall.

7th Indiana Cavalry, Colonel John P. C. Shanks.

5th U. S. Veteran Reserve Corps, Company G, Lieutenant Samuel Dickson.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the Tennessee, Major General William T. Sherman, U. S. Army, commanding, October 31, 1863.

Present for

duty.

Command. Officers Men Aggregate Aggregate

present and last

absent return.

General headquarters 12

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12 12

Fifteenth Army Corps:

Headquarters 6

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6 7

First Division 291 3,353 4,901 7,861

Second Division 259 3,817 4,891 7,387

Third Division 323 5,463 7,233 10,227

Fourth Division 310 5,211 6,411 8,280

Total Fifteenth Army 1,189 17,844 23,442 33,762

Corps

Sixteenth Army Corps:

Headquarters 17

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17 18

Engineer troops

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437 477

Left Wing 486 9,121 11,589 13,506

District of Columbus 154 3,142 4,302 5,016

District of Memphis 280 6,596 8,310 9,792

Cavalry Division 257 4,934 6,496 7,525

Troops in Arkansas a

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13,854

Total Sixteenth Army 1,194 23,793 31,151 50,188

Corps.

Seventeenth Army

Corps:

Headquarters 14 30 96 105

First Division 258 4,000 5,347 7,268

Second Division 262 3,780 4,817 7,416

Third Division 304 4,697 6,229 9,184

Fourth Division 225 4,377 5,548 7,306

Total Seventeenth 1,063 16,884 22,037 31,279

Army Corps

United States Colored 289 5,686 7,517 7,843

Troops.

Grand total b 3,747 64,207 84,159 123,084

Pieces of

artillery

Command. Aggregate Heavy Field Headquarters

last return

General headquarters

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Florence,

Ala.,

Fifteenth Army Corps:

Headquarters 7

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First Division 8,166

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14 Chickasaw,

Ala.,

Second Division 7,565

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16 Do.

Third Division 10,353

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18 Hebron

Plantation,

Miss.

Fourth Division 8,391

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14 Florence,

Ala.

Total Fifteenth Army 34,482

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62

Corps

Sixteenth Army Corps:

Headquarters 14

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Memphis,

Tennessee

Engineer troops 485

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Pocahontas,

Tennessee

Left Wing 14,784 25 36 Corinth,

Miss.,

District of Columbus 6,258

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4 Columbus, Ky.,

District of Memphis 10,121 61 22 Memphis,

Tennessee

Cavalry Division 7,776

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24 Do.

Troops in Arkansas a 21,304

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19

Total Sixteenth Army 60,742 86 105

Corps.

Seventeenth Army

Corps:

Headquarters 536

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---- Vicksburg,

Miss.

First Division 7,994 2 16 Do.

Second Division 7,488 ---- 14 Chickasaw,

Ala.,

Third Division 9,101 ---- 22 Vicksburg,

Miss.

Fourth Division 7,255 ---- 16 Natchez,

Miss.

Total Seventeenth 32,374 2 68

Army Corps

United States Colored 7,843 ---- ---- Goodrich's

Troops. Landing, La.

Grand total b 135,441 88 235

a But see Series I, Vol. XXVII, Part II, p. 687.

b The Mississippi Marine Brigade not accounted for.

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*At Camp Nelson, Ky.,

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