Abstract from returns of the Department of the Tennessee, Major General Oliver O. Howard, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of September, 1864.

[Compiled mainly from subordinate returns.]

Present for duty. Pieces of artil.

Office Men. Aggreg Aggrega Hea Fie

rs. ate te vy. ld.

Command. presen present

t and

absent

General 55 588 944 1,114 --- --

headquarters

Fifteenth Army 830 17,934 23,439 33,507 --- 52

Corps

(Osterhaus)

Sixteenth Army

Corps:

Right Wing (A. 415 8,012 10,106 18,134 --- 32

J. Smith)

Left Wing* 51 960 1,264 1,945 --- --

District of WEST 544 14,327 18,278 23,420 87 51

Tennessee

(Washburn)

Seventeenth Army 391 11,254 13,759 22,201 --- 47

Corps (Ransom)

District of 601 14,228 19,071 21,667 6 61

Vicksburg (Dana)

Total 2,887 67,303 86,861 121,988 93 243

Total according 3,218 73,317 93,365 130,449 73 185

to monthly

return of the

department.

Organization of troops in the Department of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Oliver O. Howard, U. S. Army, September 30, 1864.

FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS.

Major General P. JOSEPH OSTERHAUS.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General CHARLES R. WOODS.

First Brigade.

Colonel MILO SMITH.

12th Indiana, Major Elbert D. Baldwin.

26th Iowa, Major John Lubbers.

3d, 12th and 17th Missouri (detachments,) Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meumann.

27th Missouri, Colonel Thomas Curly.

29th Missouri, Captain Christian Burkhardt.

31st Missouri, Captain Andrew A. Harrison.

32nd Missouri, Captain Charles C. Bland.

76th Ohio, Colonel William B. Woods.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General CHARLES C. WALCUTT.

26th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Gillmore.

40th Illinois, Captain William Stewart.

103rd Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel George W. Wright.

97th Indiana, Colonel Robert F. Catterson.

100th Indiana, Captain John W. Headington.

6th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander J. Miller.

46th Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac N. Alexander.

THIRD Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM SMYTH.

4th Iowa, Major Albert R. Anderson.

9th Iowa, Major George Granger.

25th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel David J. Palmer.

30th Iowa, Major Robert D. Creamer.

31st Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah W. Jenkins.

Artillery.

Major CLEMENS LANDGRAEBER.

Iowa Light, 1st Battery, Captain William H. Gay.

2nd Missouri Light Battery F, Lieutenant George Echte.

Ohio Light, 4th Battery, Captain Otto C. Lademann.

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*Practically broken up.

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