Abstract from return of the Department of the Ohio, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of December, 18633.

Present for Pieces of

duty. artillery.

Command. Office Men. Aggreg Aggreg Heavy. Field. Station.

rs. ate ate

presen presen

t. t and

absent

.

General 16 - 16 16 - -

headquarters

Ninth Army

Corps

(Potter):

Headquarters 30 365 491 564 - 4 Blain's

Cross-

Roads,

First 199 2,696 3,396 6,618 - 10 Do.

Division

(Ferrero)

Second 96 1,489 1,961 3,452 - 8 Do.

Division

(Hartranft)

Total Ninth 325 4,550 5,848 10,634 - 22

Army Corps.

Twenty-third

Army Corps

(Cox):

Headquarters 14 80 128 177 - - Strawber

. ry

Plains,

Tennesse

e

First

Division

(Boyle):

Headquarters 10 7 17 17 - - Louisvil

le, Ky.

District of 25 664 911 1,901 - 8 Louisa, K

Eastern y.

Kentucky

(Gallup).

District of 234 5,426 6,806 9,561 19 12 Camp

North Nelson,

Central Ky.

Kentucky

(Fry).

Destrict of 69 1,624 1,876 2,713 - 4 Somerset

Somerget, Ky.

(Garrard).

District of 134 2,769 3,479 4,340 12 19 Columbia

South, Ky.

Central

Kentucky

(Hobson).

District of 85 1,839 2,289 2,592 1 27 Bowling

Southwestern Green.

Kentucky

(Maxwell).

Total First 557 12,329 15,378 21,124 32 70

Division

Second 178 3,188 3,930 5,594 - 18 Strawber

Division ry

(Manson) Plains,

Tennesse

e

Third 192 4,020 4,866 6,790 - 6 Do.

Division

(Hascall)

Total 941 19,617 24,302 33,685 32 94

Twenty-third

Army Corps.

Left Wing 234 4,534 5,539 7,935 - 10 Near

Forces in Maynardv

Tennessee ille,

(Willcox). Tennesse

e

Cavalry 271 5,089 6,701 10,175 - - Mossy

Corps Creek,

(Sturgis) Tennesse

e

Newport 6 89 131 136 - -

Barracks,

Ky.

(Eastman)

Grand total 1,793 33,870 42,533 62,581 32 126

Department =9 7

of the Ohio.

Organization of the Army of the Ohio, Major General John G. Foster, U. S. Army, commanding, December 31, 1863.

NINTH ARMY CORPS.*

Brigadier General ROBERT B. POTTER.

HEADQUARTERS.

6th Indiana Cavalry (four companies), Colonel James Biddle.

2nd U. S. Artillery, Battery E, Lieutenant William H. Graves.

Signal Corps, Captain Nahum Daniels.

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*Troops, with exceptions noted, at Blain's Cross-Roads, Tennessee

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