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HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Nashville, Tenn., December 3, 1864SIR; I have the honor to submit the following report of casualties in Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, in the fight at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, in which two brigades of this division were engaged:
Officers. Men.
Command. Kill Woun Miss Tot Kil Wound Missi Total
ed ded ing. al led ed ng.
Second
Brigade.
23rd 1 1 _ 2 2 13 3 18
Michigan
Volunteer
Infantry
80th Indiana - - - - - 9 - 9
Volunteer
Infantry
111th Ohio 1 3 - 4 10 25 9 44
Volunteer
Infantry
129th - - 1 1 4 15 2 21
Indiana
Volunteer
Infantry
107th 1 1 - 2 3 14 1 18
Illinois
Volunteer
Infantry
108th Ohio - - - - - - - -
Volunteer
Infantry
Third
Brigade
183rd Ohio 1 - 4 5 2 44 17 63
Volunteer
Infantry
50th Ohio - 2 3 5 5 15 95 115
Volunteer
Infantry
Total 4 7 8 19 26 135 127 288
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. H. HUBBELL,
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
Captain C. A. CILLEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Ohio.
Numbers 100. Report of Major General Darius N. Couch, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, of operations December 15-16, 1864.HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Near Columbia, Tenn., December 28, 1864
SIR: I have the honor to report that in obedience to the orders of the major-general commanding the Army of the Ohio, this division moved from the line it occupied in the entrenchments at Nashville at 7.30 a.m. December 15, upon being relieved by the troops of General Steedman, and took position in rear of Major General A. J. Smith's corps, on the Hardin pike. At 1 p.m. advanced to within supporting distance of Smith's troops, then engaged. Soon after was directed by General Schofield to push forward to the right of the former officer's line and engage the enemy. The division marched rapidly nearly two miles, swinging around at a right angle to the east, crossing the Granny White pike at 2.45 p.m., in line of battle by brigades, in the order of Cooper, Moore, and Mehringer. Passing Smith's extreme right more than half a mile Cooper assisted by a few hundred dismounted cavalry charged a high knob held by the rebels with infantry and three guns, carrying it most gallantly. Moore, swing to the left, aided in
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