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Page 1224 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LVII.

Abstract from tri-monthly return of Stevenson's division, Major General Carter L. Stevenson commanding, for November 18, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers Men Effective Aggregate Aggrega-

total present te

present

and

absent.

General 9 --- --- 9 12

staff

Cumming's 85 617 600 899 1,966

brigade

Pettus' 112 1,275 1,247 1,695 3,186

brigade

Brown's 201 1,426 1,369 2,015 4,206

and

Reynold's

brigades

Escort 3 38 38 41 62

Company

Total 410 3,356 3,254 4,659 9,432

division

Organization of Division, Major General Carter L. Stevenson commanding, November 18, 1864.

Cumming's Brigade.

Colonel ELIHU P. WATKINS.

34th Georgia, Captain Russell A. Jones.

36th Georgia, Colonel Charles E. Broyles.

39th Georgia, Captain William P. Milton.

56th Georgia, Captain Benjamin T. Spearman.

Pettus' Brigade.

Brigadier General EDMUND W. PETTUS.

20th Alabama, Colonel James M. Dedman.

23rd Alabama, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Bibb.

30th Alabama, Lieutenant Colonel James K. Elliott.

31st Alabama, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Arrington.

46th Alabama, Captain George E. Brewer.

Brown's and Reynolds' Brigades.

Colonel JOSEPH B. PALMER.

58th North Carolina, Captain Samuel M. Silver.

60th North Carolina, Lieutenant Colonel James T. Weaver.

3rd and 18th Tennessee, Lieutenant Colonel William R. Butler.

23rd, 26th, and 45th Tennessee, Colonel Anderson Searcy.

32nd Tennessee, Colonel John P. McGuire.

54th Virginia, Captain William G. Anderson.

63rd Virginia, Colonel James M. French.

Escort Company.

Wheeler's 6th Tennessee Cavalry, Company B, Captain Thomas B. Wilson.

CORINTH, MISS., November 19, 1864.

(Received 20th.)

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

General Wheeler telegraphs from Griffin, on 17th, that enemy are turning their columns on shortest route to Macon, and scouts from enemy's rear report Fourteenth Corps crossed Chattahoochee to join Sherman, giving him four corps. This information has been communicated to General Hood. It is left optional with him to divide and re-enforce Cobb, or take the offensive immediately to relieve him.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.


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