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advise him that it would be prudent to remove any non-combatants who might be still in Chattanooga. No reply has been returned, but, the combatants having been removed from this vicinity, it is probable that the non-combatants can remain without imprudence.

May I suggest that your visit to Louisville, with the measures there inaugurated, have done the cause in this quarter much good. It would be well to visit us here, and also for the President to review an army which has done so much for the country and which has not yet seen his face.

M. C. MEIGS,

Quartermaster-General.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

Numbers 8.

Return of Casualties in the Union Forces.*

[Compiled from nominal lists of casualties, returns, &c.]

Killed. Wounded. Captain or miss.

Off Enl Off Enlis Offic Enl Aggre

ice ist ice ted ers. ist gate.

Command. rs. ed rs. men. ed

men men

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ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND

Major General GEORGE H.

THOMAS.

FOURTH ARMY CORPS.

Major General GORDON

GRANGER.

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General CHARLES

CRUFT.

Second Brigade.

Brigadier General WALTER C.

WHITAKER.

96th Illinois - 1 2 12 --- - 15

35th Indiana - -- 1 10 --- - 11

8th Kentucky - -- - 4 --- - 4

40th Ohio 1 11 1 15 --- 2 30

51st Ohio - 1 1 4 --- - 6

99th Ohio - 3 1 12 --- - 16

Total Second Brigade. 1 16 6 57 --- 2 82

Third Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM GROSE.

59th Illinois - 1 4 13 --- - 18

75th Illinois - -- - 2 --- - 2

84th Illinois - -- - 4 --- - 4

9th Indiana - 2 1 22 --- - 25

36th Indiana - 1 - 10 --- - 11

24th Ohio - -- - 4 --- - 4

Total Third Brigade - 4 5 55 --- - 64

Total First Division. 1 20 11 112 --- 2 146

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*Includes skirmishes at Orchard Knob (or Indian Hill) and Bushy Knob (23d); battle of Lookout Mountain and skirmish at foot of Missionary Ridge (24th); battle of Missionary Ridge (25th); skirmishes at Chickamauga Station, Pea Vine Valley, Pigeon Hills, Tennessee, and near Graysville, Ga. (26th), and engagement at Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, Ga. (27th).

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