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Fort Smith, Ark.

Colonel WILLIAM R. JUDSON.

13th Kansas, Companies A, C, D, G, G, and I, Lieutenant Colonel John B. Wheeler.

Van Buren, Ark.

Colonel THOMAS M. BOWEN.

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

1st Arkansas Cavalry, Company G, Captain Francis M. Ward.

2nd Kansas Cavalry, Company H, Captain Arthur Gunther.

DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI.

Major General NAPOLEON J. T. DANA.

DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG.

Major General CADWALLADER C. WASHBURN.

POST AND DEFENSES OF VICKSBURG, MISS.

Brigadier General MORGAN L. SMITH.

MALTBY'S BRIGADE.

Brigadier General JASPER A. MALTBY.

123th Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel John H. Howe.

1st Mississippi Marine Brigade, Major David S. Tallerday.

58th Ohio, Companies A, B, and C, Captain William S. Friesner.

FIRST DIVISION.*

Brigadier General JOHN P. HAWKINS.

First Brigade.

Colonel FREDERICK M. CRANDAL.

48th U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Moses H. Crowell.

49th U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus Sears.

51st U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Alfred E. Buck.

Second Brigade.

Colonel HIRAM SCOFIELD.

46th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Julian E. Bryant.+

47th U. S. Colored Troops, Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand E. Peebles.

50th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist.

52nd U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel George M. Ziegler.

Not Brigaded.

64th U. S. Colored Troops, Major Edward B. Meatyard.

5th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Lieutenant Colonel Erastus N. Owen.

POST AND DEFENSES OF NATCHEZ.

Brigadier General MASON BRAYMAN.

8th New Hampshire, Colonel Hawkes Fearing, jr.

48th Ohio, Colonel Job R. Parker.

83rd Ohio, Colonel Frederick W. Moore.

58th U. S. Colored Troops, Colonel Simon M. Preston.

63rd U. S. Colored Troops (six companies), Lieutenant Colonel Albion L. Mitchell.

70th U. S. Colored) Troops, Colonel Willard C. Earle.

5th Illinois Cavalry (six companies), Lieutenant Colonel Abel H. Seley.

6th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Major John P. Coleman.

Ohio Light, 26th Battery, Lieutenant Omar S. Lee.

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*U. S. Colored Troops.

+Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.

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