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[Inclosure Numbers 1.] Statement of rebel flags captured by the U. S. forces (Army and Division of West Mississippi) during the operations against the city of Mobile.
Rank and Company. Regiment. Where When
name of captured. captured.
captor.
Lieutenant --- 97th Blakely, April 9,
Colonel Illinois. Ala. 1865.
Victor
Vifquain.
Captain H. 119th ...do...... Do.
Samuel Illinois.
McConnel.
Captain B. 8th ...do...... Do.
Henry A. Illinois.
Miller.
First A. 83rd Ohio. ...do...... Do.
Sergt.
Joseph
Stickels.
Sergt. B. 119th ...do...... Do.
George F. Illinois.
Rebman.
Sergt. K. 8th Iowa. Spanish April 8,
Edgar A. Fort. 1865.
Bras.
Private B. 122nd Blakely April 9,
John H. Illinois. fort. 1865.
Callahan.
Private F. 119th ...do...... do.
John Illinois.
Whitmore.
Private D. 1st Near April 4,
Thomas Louisiana Blakely 1865.
Riley. Cavalry. Ford.
Three --- --- --- April 9,
flags 1865.
found by
men of the
Third
Division,
Sixteenth
Army
Corps,
after the
capture of
Spanish
Fort.
NOTE.- Two other flags captured by General Lucas' command in the operations about Mobile have not been received.
ED. R. S. CANBY,
Major-General, Commanding.
HDQRS. ARMY AND DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Mobile, Ala., May 7, 1865.[Inclosure Numbers 2.] Consolidated report of casualties from March 25 to April 10, 1865.
Killed. Wounded.
Thirteenth Army Corps. 80 531
Sixteenth Army Corps. 66 448
Hawkins' colored division. 48 323
Lucas' cavalry brigade. 4 8
Total. 198 1.310
ED. R. S. CANBY,
Major-General, Commanding.
HDQRS. ARMY AND DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Mobile, Ala., May 11, 1865.WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, May 16, 1865.
Major General E. R. S. CANBY,
Commanding, &c., Mobile:
GENERAL: Suitable acknowledgment of the great services rendered to the country by your command has been delayed because when the intelligence reached Washington the public mind was overwhelmed with grief for the loss of their great and good President, Abraham Lincoln, and filled with horror at the atrocity of the crime that cut him
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*But see revised statement, p. 115.
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