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Cavalry.

3rd Maryland, Colonel C. Carroll Tevis.

ARTILLERY RESERVE.

Captain HENRY W. CLOSSON.*

Delaware Light, 1st Battery, Captain Benjamin Nields.

1st Indiana Heavy (two companies), Captain William S. Hinkle.

CORPS D'AFRIQUE.

FIRST BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION.

Colonel WILLIAM H. DICKEY.

1st Infantry (73rd U. S. Colored Troops), Major Hiram E. Perkins.

3rd Infantry (75th U. S. Colored Troops), Colonel Henry W. Fuller.

12th Infantry (84th U. S. Colored Troops), Captain James H. Corrin.

22nd Infantry (92nd U. S. Colored Troops), Colonel Henry N. Frisbie.

CAVALRY.

Brigadier General ALBERT L. LEE.

First Brigade.

Colonel THOMAS J. LUCAS.

16th Indiana Infantry (mounted), Lieutenant Colonel James H. Redfield.

2nd Louisiana Infantry (mounted), Major Alfred Hodsdon.

6th Missouri,+ Captain Sidney A. Breese.

14th New York, Major Abraham Bassford.

Third Brigade.

Colonel HARAI ROBINSON.

87th Illinois Infantry (mounted), Lieutenant Colonel John M. Crebs.

1st Louisiana, Major Algernon S. Badger.

Fourth Brigade.

Colonel NATHAN A. M. DUDLEY.

2nd Illinois, Major Benjamin F. Marsh, jr.

3rd Massachusetts, Lieutenant Colonel Lorenzo D. Sargent.

31st Massachusetts Infantry (mounted), Captain Elbert H. Fordham.

8th New Hampshire Infantry (mounted), Lieutenant Colonel George A. Flanders.

Fifth Brigade.

Colonel OLIVER P. GOODING.

2nd New York Veteran, Colonel Morgan H. Chrysler.

18th New York, Colonel James J. Byrne.

3rd Rhode Island (detachment), Major George R. Davis.

Artillery.

Massachusetts Light, 2nd Battery (B), Captain Ormand F. Nims.

5th United States, Battery G, Lieutenant Jacob B. Rawles.

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE (DETACHMENT).

Brigadier General ANDREW J. SMITH.

FIRST DIVISION, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS.#

Second Brigade.

Colonel LUCIUS F. HUBBARD.

47th Illinois, Colonel John D. McClure.

5th Minnesota, Major John C. Becht.

8th Wisconsin, Lieutenant Colonel John W. Jefferson.

Third Brigade.

Colonel SYLVESTER G. HILL.

35th Iowa, Lieutenant Colonel William B. Keeler.

33rd Missouri, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Heath.

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* Chief of corps artillery.

+ Howitzer battery, under Captain Herbert H. Rottaken, attached.

# The First Brigade at Memphis, Tenn.; the Eleventh Missouri, of Second Brigade, and the Eighth and Twelfth Iowa of Third Brigade on veteran furlough; the division artillery reported as at Memphis and Vicksburg. Brigadier General Joseph A. Mower assigned to command of both divisions Sixteenth Army Corps, March 9.

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