Abstract from incomplete returns of troops in the Third District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Major General Franklin Gardner, C. S. Army, commanding, for May 10, 1863.

Command Officer Men Aggrega Aggrega Aggrega Remarks

s te te te last

present present return

and

absent

Beall's -- -- -- -- -- At Port

brigade Hudson

Staff 8 -- 8 8 9

Infantr 318 2,753 3,808 5,787 5,633

y

Artille 19 415 478 573 428

ry

Total 345 3,168 4,294 6,368 6,070

Heavy -- -- -- -- -- At Port

Batteri Hudson

es,

left

wing

Louisia 16 156 204 222 222

na

Battali

on

Tenness 9 110 184 188 187

ee

Battali

on

Total 25 266 388 410 409

Miles' 49 799 1,033 1,525 1,528 Near

command Port

Hudson

Grand 419 4,233 5,715 8,303 8,007

total

Troops accounted for in Major General Franklin Gardner's command, on returns for May 19, 1863.

Beall's Brigade.

Brigadier General W. N. R. BEALL.

49th Alabama.

1st Arkansas Battalion.

10th Arkansas.

12th Arkansas.

15th Arkansas.

16th Arkansas.

Logan's (Arkansas) regiment (consolidated).

Lyles' (Arkansas) regiment (consolidated).

Watson (Louisiana) Battery.

1st Mississippi.

1st Mississippi Light Artillery (battalion).

39th Mississippi.

Left Wing Heavy Batteries.

Lieutenant Colonel P. F. DE GOURNAY.

Twelfth Louisiana Battalion.*

Tennessee Battalion.+

Miles' command.

Colonel W. R. MILES.

9th Louisiana Battalion Partisan Rangers.

Miles' Legion (infantry).

Boone's battery.

Roberts' battery.

HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, May 19, 1863.

Major General RICHARD TAYLOR,
Commanding, &c., Natchitoches, La:

GENERAL: I inclose herewith an order for Colonel J. P. Major to report to you for duty.++ Lieutenant-General Smith directs that you assign him

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*Companies A, B, C, and E.

+The Maury, Nelson, and Rock City Artillery.

++Not found.

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