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Corps to minimum standard, and to request that measures may be taken to fill the regiments by drafted men or enlistments from your State:

Regiment. Brigade DIVISION Number

. . of

recruits

required

.

99th Ohio. First. Second. 375

111th Ohio. Second. . . do. 85

.

118th Ohio. . . do. . . do. 100

. .

50th Ohio. THIRD. . . do. 333

.

100th Ohio. First. THIRD. 229

103rd Ohio. Second. . . do. 137

.

7th Ohio Cavalry. . . . . . . 150

Total. . . . . . . 1. 409

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Decatur, Ga., September 13, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the numbers of men required to recruit the Tennessee regiments in the Twenty-THIRD Army Corps to the minimum standard, and to request that measures be taken to fill the regiments by drafted men or enlistments from your State:

Regiment. Brigade DIVISION Number

. . of

recruits

required

.

6th Tennessee. First. Second. 250

3rd Tennessee. . . do. . . do. 258

. .

8th Tennessee. . . do. THIRD. 195

.

Total. . . . . . . 703

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General, Commanding.

LEXINGTON, September 13, 1864.

Brigadier General J. D. WEBSTER,

Nashville, Tenn.:

With the approval of Major-General Halleck, I am about to move with my available cavalry force to co-operate, with General Gillem in an attack on the salt-works near Abingdon, Va. Reports reach me of a rebel force near Sparta. Is there any truth in them?

S. G. BURBRIDGE,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


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