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1283 Series III Volume IV- Serial 125 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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Consolidated abstract from returns of the U. S. Army for April 30, 1865.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate Aggregate

present. present

and

absent.

Department 3.692 89.126 107.824 139.067

of the

Cumberland

(Thomas)

Department 333 6.310 8.488 11.081

of the

East (Dix)

Department 411 10.580 12.724 15.803

of

Kentucky

(Palmer)

Middle 3.539 92.417 111.048 144.590

Military

Division a

(Hancock)

Military 3.024 65.352 76.044 121.237

Division

of the

Mississipp

i b

(Sherman)

Military 1.585 40.889 52.861 66.541

Division

of the

Missouri c

(Pope)

Department 71 1.764 1.998 3.083

of New

Mexico

(Carleton)

Department 1.754 44.092 52.011 87.500

of North

Carolina

(Schofield

)

Northern 450 10.185 14.398 17.058

Department

(Hooker)

Department 286 5.765 7.472 9.041

of the

Pacific

(McDowell)

Army of 3.090 64.615 83.753 130.616

the

Potomac d

(Meade)

Department 515 14.048 17.085 22.907

of the

South

(Gillmore)

Department 1.579 41.518 48.206 82.224

of

Virginia d

(Ord)

Military 3.146 76.225 93.723 122.613

Division

of West

Mississipp

i e

(Canby)

Cavalry 620 10.609 17.930 38.897

Forces

(Sheridan)

Cavalry 739 19.724 23.862 35.358

Corps

(Wilson)

First Army 38 4.011 4.325 4.422

Corps f

(Hancock)

Total. 24.872 597.230 733.752 1.052.038

a Embraced the Department of Washington (Augur), Department of Pennsylvania (Cadwalader), Middle Department (Wallace), Department of West Virginian (Emory), and Army of the Shenandoah (Torbert). For strength of the several commands, see Series I, Vol. XLVI, Part III, p. 1038.

b Embraces only the forces under Sherman's immediate command-Army of the Tennessee (Howard), and Army of Georgia (Slocum).

c Ebraced the Department of the Northwest (Curtis), Department of Arkansas (Reynolds), and the Department of the Missouri (Dodge). For strength of the several commands, see Series I, Vol. XLVIII, Part II, p. 262.

d In the Military Division of the James under Halleck.

e Ebraced the Department of the Gulf (Banks), Department of Mississippi (Dana), Thirteenth Army Corps (Granger), Sixteenth Army Corps (A. J. Smith), Cavalry Corps (Grierson), and other smaller commands. For strength of the component parts, see Series I, Vol. XLVIII, Part II, p. 215.

f Not elsewhere reported.


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