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[Inclosure.]
Field return of Brigadier-General Chalmer's DIVISION.
Aggregate present for duty:
Brigadier-General Gholson's brigade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,265
First Brigade, Colonel J. J. Neely commanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,389
Second Brigade, Colonel R. McCulloch commanding. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,629
One battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,361
Duff's regiment, Eighteenth MISSISSIPPI Regiment, and Duckworth's regiment, two 10-pounder Parrott guns, and two 12-pounder field howitzers, numbering about 1,200 men, are at Oxford and Panola on detached service.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION,
Tupelo, May 23, 1864.Respectfully forwarded.
No return from this brigade this morning.
The following report of deserters from the brigade since yesterday has been received:
From Twelfth Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
From Fourteenth Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
From Fifteenth Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Higg's company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Aggregate present-
On yesterday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,629
Deducted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
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1,503
JAS. R. CHALMERS,
Brigadier-General.
Respectfully submitted.
N. B. FORREST,
Major-General.
MERIDIAN, MISS., May 23, 1864.
Colonel DUCKWORTH,
Oxford:
Develop the enemy's strength at once, so as to find out their intention.
S. D. LEE,
Major-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 120. Richmond, May 24, 1864.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
XVI. The following-named officers are relieved from duty in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, and will report
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