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374 Series I Volume XLI-IV Serial 86 - Price's Missouri Expedition Part IV

Page 374 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Chapter LIII.

DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER.

Brigadier General JOHN M. THAYER.

First Brigade.

Colonel JOHN EDWARDS.

1st Arkansas, Colonel James M. Johnson.

18th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh J. Campbell.

12th Kansas, Colonel Charles W. Adams.

Kansas Light Artillery, 2nd Battery, Lieutenant

Andrew G. Clark.

Second Brigade.

Colonel JAMES M. WILLIAMS.

1st Kansas Colored Troops, Captain John R. Graton.

2nd Kansas Colored Troops, Major John H. Gillpatrick.

11th U. S. Colored Troops (five companies), Lieutenant Colonel James M. Steele.

54th U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fair.

Arkansas Light Artillery, 1st Battery, Captain Denton D. Stark.

Kansas Light Artillery, 3rd Battery, Lieutenant Levinus Harris.

Third Brigade.

Colonel WILLIAM R. JUDSON.

1st Arkansas Cavalry, Colonel M. La Rue Harrison.

2nd Kansas Cavalry, Captain Austin W. Matthews.

6th Kansas Cavalry, Major John A. Johnson, jr.

14th Kansas Cavalry, Major Charles Willetts.

Indian Brigade.

Colonel STEPHEN H. WATTLES.

1st Indian Home Guard, Lieutenant Colonel George Dole.

2nd Indian Home Guards, Major Moses B. C. Wright.

3rd Indian Home Guards, Major John A. Foreman.

14th Kansas Cavalry, Company M, Lieutenant Dudley Sawyer.

Fort Smith, Ark.

Colonel WILLIAM R. JUDSON.

13th Kansas, Companies A, C, D, G, H, and I, Major Caleb A. Woodworth.

Van Buren, Ark.

Colonel THOMAS M. BOWEN.

13th Kansas, Companies B, E, F, and K, Captain Patrick H. McNamara.

3rd Wisconsin Cavalry (detachment), Lieutenant William Culbertson.

UNATTACHED CAVALRY.

Independent Company, Lieutenant Henry Sachs.

Abstract from returns of the Department of Kansas, Major General Samuel R. Curtis, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of October, 1864.

Present for duty.

Command. Officers. Men. Aggregate Aggregate

present. present

and

absent.

General 12 119 142 164

headquarter

s *..

District of 45 816 974 1,488

Colorado

(Chivington

)..

District of 60 1,403 1,570 2,326

Nebraska

(Mitchell).

.

District of 9 126 267 741

North

Kansas

(Davies)..

District of 86 2,276 2,789 3,335

South

Kansas

(Blunt)..

District of 14 531 725 1,121

Upper

Arkansas

(Henning)..

Grand 226 5,271 6,467 9,175

total..

Pieces of artillery.

Command. Heavy. Field. Headquarter

s.

General headquarters ........... ............ Fort

*.. Leavenworth

.

District of Colorado ........... ............ Denver.

(Chivington)..

District of Nebraska ........... ............ Omaha.

(Mitchell)..

District of North 6 4 Fort

Kansas (Davies).. Leavenworth

.

District of South ........... 10 Paola.

Kansas (Blunt)..

District of Upper ........... ............ Fort Riley,

Arkansas (Henning).. Kans.

Grand total.. 6 14

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*Includes escort and Signal Corps.

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