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Page 571 Chapter LVII. CAMPAIGN IN NORTH ALA. AND MIDDLE TENN.

Disposition of prisoners of war and deserters.

Prisoners of war, including officers and deserters, transferred- To Colonel Parkhurst, provost-marshal-general Department of the Cumberland............................................... 517

To provost-marshal Army of the Tennessee, Eastport, Miss. 36

To Captain Sparks, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteers........... 10

To General Granger, Huntsville, Ala...................... 95

To Fourth Army Corps, Department of the Cumberland....... 296

To Captain Dugger, One hundred and twenty-second

Illinois Infantry........................................ 7

To General Kimball....................................... 8

At Franklin, Tenn........................................ 12

Remainder transferred to infantry officers during the fighting; no receipts taken for the same.

I certify that the above report is correct.

G. H. KNEELAND,

Captain and Acting Provost-Marshal.

Consolidate report of property captured by Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, commanded by Brevet Major-General Wilson, during the campaign from November 30, 1864, to December 31, 1864.

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a First Brigade, Fifth Division, claims the capture of 400 stand of small-arms, left on the field for want of transportation. Two pieces of artillery captured were saved by Lieutenant R. B. Avery. The ammunition wagons, horses, and drives were captured by Captain H. Lindsey. The brigade does not claim these guns outright. The skirmishers of the Third Illinois Cavalry entered the rebel breastworks on a line with the skirmishers of the Second Brigade, Fifth Division. The brigade forced the enemy to abandon three pieces of artillery, which the rebels threw into Duck River. The Third Illinois Cavalry, of this brigade, captured 2 locomotives, 2 had-cars, and saved 200 cords of wood (Government) fired by the enemy. The small-arms captured were all left on the field or destroyed. Total capture of field pieces by this brigade, 14.

b First Brigade, Seventh Division, Cavalry Corps: This brigade captured six colors; one of the number was captured by Lieutenant Allen, aide-de-camp to General Hammond, and by his turned over to General Knipe; the remaining five were transferred to Captain Huston, provost-marshal seventh Cavalry Division. Forty-eight mules and 8 wagons captured were turned over to Captain Huston, provost-marshal, also Colonel Russell's and Roddey's headquarters wagons, numbering 25, with Roddey's papers; 125 pontoon wagons, with contents, burned; 125 wagons General Hood's supply train, also burned, with contents. Total capture of mules, 1,348; out of that number 200 were turned over to General Grange; broken-down horses were replaced with a number of them, and the remainder killed.

I certify that the above report is correct.

G. H. KNEEDLAND,

Captain and Acting Provost-Marshal.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE,
Gravelly Springs, February 6, 1865.


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