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95 Series I Volume XLIV- Serial 92 - Savannah

Page 95 Chapter LVI. THE SAVANNAH CAMPAIGN.

Report of casualties in the Fifteenth Army Corps during the campaign in pursuit of Hood and the Savannah campaign.

Commissioned officers. Enlisted men.

Command. Kille Wound Missi Kille Wound Miss Aggre

d. ed. ng. d. ed. ing. gate.

First . . 6 . . 14 72 2 94

Division. . .

Second 5 6 1 23 119 49 203

Division.

Third . . 7 20 39 129 444 641

Division. .

Fourth 6 16 2 100 137 116 477

Division.

Artillery 1 1 . . 6 28 1 37

Brigade. .

Total. 12 36 25 182 585 612 1,452

List of casualties in the Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps (Brigadier General W. R. Hazen commanding), in the assault on Fort McAllister, December 13, 1864.

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officer Men. Officer Men. Aggreg

s. s. ate.

70th Ohio. . . . 6 . . . 30 36

48th Illinois. 1 6 1 15 23

90th Illinois. . . . 3 . . . 14 17

6th Missouri. . . . 1 . . . 2 3

116th Illinois. 1 . . . . . . 7 8

30th Ohio. 1 . . . . . . 7 8

53rd Ohio. . . . . . . 1 . . . 1

54th Ohio. . . . . . . 1 4 5

111th Illinois. 1 3 3 9 16

47th Ohio. . . . 1 1 15 17

Total. 4 20 7 103 134

All of which I have the honor to submit.

P. JOS. OSTERHAUS,

Major-General.


Numbers 12. Report of Lieutenant William H. Sherfy, U. S. Army, Signal Officer. HDQRS. SIGNAL DETACHMENT, FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Savannah, Ga., December 31, 1864.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report of duties performed by the detachment of the Signal Corps serving with the Fifteenth Army Corps during the mounts of November and December, 1864:

November 1 to 5 I was on the march with the Fifteenth Army Corps, returning from the campaign in North Georgia and Alabama, and had with me the seven enlisted men of my own party. On this march we

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* The erroneous division of the third and fifth columns of table is according to the original.

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