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14 Series I Volume XXXVIII-II Serial 73 - The Atlanta Campaign Part II

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Numbers 432.- Major General George Stoneman, U. S. Army, commanding Cavalry, Army of the Ohio, of operations May 7, July 13-15, and July 27-August 6.


Numbers 433.- Lieutenant Colonel Robert W. Smith, Assistant Inspector-General, of operations July 27-August 6 (Stoneman's raid).


Numbers 434.- Major Haviland Tompkins, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry Provost-Marshal, of operations July 27-August 6 (Stoneman's raid).


Numbers 435.- Colonel Israel Garrard, Seventeenth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Cavalry Division, of operations July 27-September 9.


Numbers 436.- Colonel Horace Capron, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations July 27-August 6 (Stoneman's raid).


Numbers 175.

Reports of Major General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Army, commanding Twentieth Army Corps, of casualties May 25 and operations June 22.

NEAR DALLAS, GA., May 27, 1864.

GENERAL: In have the honor to report the following as the casualties in my command in the engagement of May 25, 1864:

Killed. Wounded. Missing.

Command. Offic Men. Offic Men. Offic Men. Total

ers. ers. ers. .

First 3 83 29 609 ... 146 870

Division

Second 3 23 8 283 1 58 376

Division

Third 1 33 17 268 1 98 418

Division

Headquarters ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1

Total 7 140 54 1,160 2 302 1,665

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOSEPH HOOKER,

Major-General, Commanding.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff.

P. S.- The dead lying between our line and the enemy's breastworks we have not been able to recover. This will increase the number of killed and decrease the missing.


HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CORPS,
Near Kolb's House, Ga., June 22, 1864 - 12 m.

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that the operations of the Twentieth Corps commenced with throwing forward Geary's division and driving away the rebels from some commanding heights about a mile in advance of my center. When this was accomplished batteries were posted to sweep the ground to the left to enable Butterfield to advance about the same distance and take possession of some wooded heights, which were held by the enemy, as it was believed that the possession of them would give us command of the Dallas and Marietta road, and that in rear of the enemy in front of the Fourth Corps. Meanwhile Williams threw forward his fight flank, driving the enemy before him, step by step, between two and three miles to the Kolb house, on the Powder Springs and Marietta road,


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