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Return of Casualties in the Union forces engaged at Raymond, MISS., &c. -Continued.

Killed. Wounded. Captured

or MISSING.

Offi Enli Offi Enli Offi Enli Aggre

Command. cers sted cers sted cers sted gate.

. men. . men. . men.

THIRD Brigade.

Brigadier General

John D.

STEVENSON.

8th Illinois 1 7 1 18 --- --- 27

81st Illinois --- 1 2 7 --- 5 15

7th Missouri 2 7 2 55 --- 7 73

32nd Ohio* --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

Total THIRD 3 15 5 80 --- 12 115

Brigade

Artillery.

1st Illinois Light

Artillery, Battery --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

D*

Michigan Light

Artillery, 8th --- --- --- 1 --- --- 1

Battery

Ohio Light

Artillery, 3rd --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

Battery*

Total Artillery --- --- --- 1 --- --- 1

Total THIRD 7 56 17 319 2 35 436

DIVISION

Seventh

(Crocker's) --- 2 --- 2 --- --- 4

DIVISION+

GRAND total 7 59 17 322 2 35 442

OFFICERS KILLED. -Illinois: Captain Frank Leeper, Eighth Infantry, and Lieutenant Colonel Evan Richards, Captain Victor H. Stevens, and Lieutenant William S. Sears, Twentieth Infantry. Indiana: Lieutenant Henry C. Deitz, Twenty-THIRD Infantry. Missouri: Lieutenants John Lamb and John W. Barrett, Seventh Infantry.


Numbers 3. Report of Brigadier General John E. SMITH, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, THIRD DIVISION, including operations May 1-June 4. HDQRS. 1ST BRIGADE, 3rd DIVISION, 17TH ARMY CORPS,

Before Vicksburg, MISS., June 23, 1863.

MAJOR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the First Brigade since the battle of Thompson's Hill, near Port Gibson, MISS., on the 1st of May, 1863 (a report of which I had the honor to transmit soon after), to June 4, 1863:

On the 2nd day of May, about 10 a. m., I received orders from Major-General Grant to move out with my command and cross the south fork of Bayou Pierre, at the ford about 3 1/2 miles east of Port Gibson, and gain the main road from Port Gibson to Vicksburg, which I accomplished about 2 p. m., halting near the residence of the rebel Colonel B. G. Humphreys, Twenty-first Regiment Mississippi Volunteers. I found no enemy, but discovered in store about 7,000 or 8,000 pounds of bacon, which was secured and distributed to the troops. This proved a valuable acquisition to our limited supplies.

The DIVISION having crossed at Port Gibson, now, 5 p. m., moved up.

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*No loss reported.

+Held mainly in reserve. The following-named regiments appear to have been the most actively employed: Forty-eighth and FIFTY-NINTH Indiana, Tenth Missouri, and Eightieth Ohio.

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