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THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS.

Major General NAPOLEON J. T. DANA.

FIRST DIVISION.*

Brigadier General WILLIAM P. BENTON.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General FITZ HENRY WARREN.

33rd Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Leander H. Potter.

99th Illinois, Colonel George W. K. Bailey.

8th Indiana, Colonel David Shunk.

18th Indiana, Colonel Henry D. Washburn.

Second Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES L. HARRIS.

21st Iowa, Major William D. Crooke.

22nd Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Graham.

23rd Iowa, Colonel Samuel L. Glasgow.

11th Wisconsin, Lieutenant Colonel Luther H. Whittlesey.

Third Brigade.+

Colonel JAMES KEIGWIN.

49th Indiana, Major Arthur J. Hawhe.

69th Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel Oran Perry.

16th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Kershner.

114th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel John H. Kelly.

Artillery.

7th Michigan Battery, Lieutenant George L. Stillman.

SECOND DIVISION.#

Major General NAPOLEON J. T. DANA.

First Brigade.

Colonel [JOHN] CHARLES BLACK.

37th Illinois, Colonel [John] Charles Black.

91st Illinois, Colonel Henry M. Day.

26th Indiana, Colonel John G. Clark.

38th Iowa, Major Charles Chadwick.

Second Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM McE. DYE.

94th Illinois, Colonel John McNulta.

19th Iowa, Major John Bruce.

20th Iowa, Major William G. Thompson.

20th Wisconsin, Colonel Henry Bertram.

Third Brigade.

Brigadier General THOMAS E. G. RANSOM. @

34th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Warren S. Dungan.

13th Maine, Lieutenant Colonel Frank S. Hesseltine.

15th Maine, Colonel Isaac Dyer.

Artillery.

1st Missouri Light, Battery B, Captain Martin Welfley

1st Missouri Light, Battery E, Captain Joseph B. Atwater.

1st Missouri Light, Battery F, Captain Joseph Foust.

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*The First Brigade at Indianola; the other troops at Decrow's Point, Tex. Brigadier-General Benton assumed command December 15; Brigadier-General Warren assigned to duty with Thirteenth Army Corps, November 14.

+Colonel Keigwin, commanding since December 23. The Seventh and Twenty-second Kentucky, and the Forty-second and One hundred and twentieth Ohio, of the brigade, at Plaquemine, La. The Forty-ninth Indiana probably at Algiers, La.

#Major-General Dana, commanding since September 28. Brigadier-General William Vandever, relieved November 11, at his own request, from command of First Brigade, and ordered to report to commanding general Department of the Tennessee. Division headquarters the First and Second Brigades, the cavalry, and Batteries B and E, First Missouri, Light Artillery, at Brownsville, the Third Brigade on Matagorda Island, and Battery F, First Missouri Light Artillery, at Decrow's Point.

@Ordered by General Banks, October 30, to report for duty to Brigadier-General Dana.

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