Captain Alexander D. Haskins. Since the organization of this forage party the regiment has suffered but little from want of food. The detail has, with few exceptions, found sufficient to subsist the regiment. The party has captured horses to the number of 20 and mules to the number of 30; cotton-gins destroyed, 7; bales of cotton destroyed, 438.

I am at a loss to give the number of pounds of forage consumed by the animals of the regiment, but would say the animals have received full forage during the entire campaign, which would amount to 52,414 pounds of corn and hay, or fodder to the amount of 71,462 pounds. I would add that the subsistence taken from the country has been corn meal and bacon, with but a scanty portion of potatoes. Since leaving Savannah the regiment has drawn from the brigade fifteen days' rations of meat and hard bread. Coffee and sugar has been issued in small quantities.

Recapitulation.

Miles marched. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Men killed in action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Men wounded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Men (prisoners) captured. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Animals captured:

Horses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Mules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Rations taken from the country:

Corn meal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds . . . 18,490

Bacon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . 23,790

Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . do . . . . 4,300

Forage taken from the country:

Corn and fodder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pounds . . 52,414

Cotton and cotton-gins destroyed:

Gins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Cotton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bales . . . 483

List of casualties in Third Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry during the campaign commencing January 17, 1865, and ending March 24, 1865. *

Recapitulation: Killed, 5; wounded, 26; total, 31.

Very respectfully,

GEO. W. STEVENSON,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Regiment.

Captain J. R. LINDSAY,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, 2nd Brigadier, 1st Div., 20th Army Corps.

HDQRS. THIRD WISCONSIN VETERAN VOLUNTEERS,
May 28, 1865.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of operations of the Third Regiment Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry from the time of the departure of the command from Goldsborough, N. C., April 10, 1865, to the date of arrival at Washington, May 24, 1865:

On the morning of April 10 the regiment, in common with the rest of the command, commenced the March, moving out on the Raleigh road. When some eight miles on our way two companies of my regiment were ordered out to support and extend the line then formed by a part of First Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army Corps. Some skirmishing ensued, but without loss of any in my regiment; camping

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*Nominal list omitted.

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