48 Series I Volume XXXVIII-III Serial 74 - The Atlanta Campaign Part III
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[Inclosure.]
Effective strngth Army of the Tennesee at the commencement of the campaign in Georgia.
Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate.
Fifteenth Army Corps:
Infantry 573 10,768 11,341
Artillery 24 736 760
Total 597 11,504 12,101
Left Wing. Sixteenth Army
Corps:
Infantry 487 11,489 11,976
Artillery 16 684 700
Cavalry 21 423 444
Total 524 12,596 13,120
Seventeenth Army Corps:a
Infantry 417 8,597 9,014
Artillery 19 887 906
Cavalry 4 100 104
Total 440 9,584 10,024
Total Army of the 1,561 33,684 35,245
Tennessee
a Joined at Acworth June 10, 1864.
Casualties in Army of the Tennessee in Georgia.
Killed. Wounded.
Command Officers. Men. Officers. Men.
Fifteenth Army 54 596 188 3,207
Corps
Left Wing. 20 356 91 1,708
Sixteenth Army
Corps
Seventeenth Army 17 405 86 1,713
Corps
Total Army of the 91 1,357 365 6,628
Tennessee
Missing. Total.
Command Officers Men. Officers Men. Aggreg
. . ate.
Fifteenth Army 28 605 270 4,408 4,678
Corps
Left Wing. 6 196 117 2,260 2,377
Sixteenth Army
Corps
Seventeenth Army 43 995 146 3,113 3,259
Corps
Total Army of the 77 1,796 533 9,781 10,314
Tennessee
Captured.a
Prisoners...................................2,921
Deserters................................... 215
a Turned over to and receipted for by peovost- marshal- genersl, Department of the Cumberland.
Acknowledged losses of the enemy.b
Resaca......................................2,000
Dallas......................................2,000
July 22....................................12,000
July 28.....................................7,000
Jonesborough................................5,000
Total......................................28,000
b This estimate does not include the loss of the enemy in constant skirmishing or minor attacks in front of the Army of the Tennessee.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
East Point, Ga., September 29, 1864.CAPTAIN: In my report of operations during the campaign of Atlanta, I made scarcely any reference to the medical department ofthis army, expecting to transmit in a short time the report of themedical director. His peeliminary report* accompanies this letter, and is replete with matter of general as well as peofessional interest. The campaign was along one; battles and hard skirmishing of
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*See p. 50.
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