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751 Series I Volume XXIV-I Serial 36 - Vicksburg Part I

Page 751 Chapter XXXVI. ENGAGEMENT AT JACKSON, MISS.

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

Killed. Wounded.

Enlisted

Offi Enli Offi Enli men Aggre

Command. cers sted cers sted captured gate.

. men. . men. or

MISSING.

SECOND Brigade.

Colonel SAMUEL A.

HOLMES.

56th Illinois* --- --- --- ---

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17th Iowa 1 15 7 54 3 80

10th Missouri --- 10 2 63

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75

24th Missouri, --- --- --- 9

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9

Company E

80th Ohio --- 4 3 44

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51

Total SECOND Brigade 1 29 12 170 3 215

THIRD Brigade.

Colonel GEORGE B.

BOOMER.

93rd Illinois --- 1 --- 6

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7

5th Iowa --- --- --- 4

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4

10th Iowa+ --- --- --- ---

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26th Missouri+ --- --- --- ---

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Total THIRD Brigade --- 1 --- 10

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11

Artillery.

1st Missouri Light

Artillery, --- --- --- ---

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Battery M+

Ohio Light

Artillery, --- --- --- ---

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11th Battery+

Wisconsin Light

Artillery, --- --- --- 2

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2

6th Battery

Wisconsin Light

Artillery, --- --- --- ---

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12th Battery+

Total Artillery --- --- --- 2

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2

Total Seventh 1 34 13 214 3 265

DIVISION

GRAND total 2 40 14 237 7 300

OFFICER KILLED. -Lieutenant John Inskeep, 17th Iowa Infantry.


Numbers 2. Report of Major General William T. Sherman, Fifteenth Army Corps, including operations April 20-May 22. HEADQUARTERS Fifteenth ARMY CORPS, Walnut Hills, MISS., May 24, 1863.

SIR: In order to make a connected history of events preceding the final issue of this campaign, I avail myself of this the first leisure hour to give substantially the operations of the Fifteenth Army Corps since the movement began.

General Grant's orders for an advance by way of Grand Gulf were dated April 20, 1863, and gave McClernand's corps the right, McPherson's the center, and mine the left, the movement being by the right flank.

I had made all preparations for the movement, when, on the 26th, I

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*Detached.

+No loss reported.

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