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227 Series I Volume XXXVIII-I Serial 72 - The Atlanta Campaign Part I

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tieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Both Colonels Kirby and Taylor well deserve, and have earned, promotion.

I must also make honorable mention of the two batteries under my command, Captain A. Morrison, Fifth Indiana, and Captain Jacob Ziegler, Battery B, Independent Pennsylvania. They rendered excellent service daily, and always courted exposed positions, never slackening fire, however much exposed, either to the artillery or musketry of the enemy.

I desire also to call favorable attention to my staff, who served me most cheerfully and efficiently, and relieved me of much care and labor during the campaign. Major Sinclair, assistant adjutant-general; Major Fairbanks, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers, inspector, and who was untiring in his care of the picket-line; Captain J. D. Moxley, Captain W. H. Greenwood and Lieutenant L. L. Taylor, aides-de-camp; Lieutenant Croxton, Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, ordnance officer, who always kept his ammunition just where it was needed; Surgeon Brumley, U. S. Volunteers, who provided most fully for the comfort of our wounded, and Captain Hopkins, assistant quartermaster, and Captain Kniffin, commissary of subsistence, all deserve well of the Government.

I have previously mentioned the death of two of my chiefs of artillery, Captains Simonson and McDowell. The place was well and ably filled by Captain Thomasson, First Kentucky Battery.

Captain J. W. Steele, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, topographical engineer, rendered good and efficient service, and Captain Greenwood, besides his duty as aide-de-camp, found time to make occupied by the army.

Appended is a tabular monthly statement of the casualties of the division from the 1st of May to the 31st of July, 1864.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

D. S. STANLEY,

Major-General, Commanding First Division.

Colonel J. S. FULLERTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.]

Consolidated report of casualties of the First Division, Fourth Army Corps, for the months of May, June, and July, 1864.

Killed Wounded

Command Officer Men. Total Officer Men Total

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May:

First 1 9 10 2 82 84

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Second -- 26 26 4 120 124

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Third 1 28 29 11 147 158

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June:

First 1 28 29 12 169 181

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Second 6 66 72 19 276 295

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Third 3 42 45 8 189 197

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July:

First 1 4 5 1 27 28

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Second 1 7 8 -- 36 36

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Third 1 7 8 9 112 121

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Total 15 217 232 66 1,158 1,224

Missing Total

Command Officer Men. Total Officer Men Aggrega

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May:

First -- 11 11 3 102 105

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Second -- 13 13 4 159 163

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Third -- -- -- 12 175 187

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June:

First -- 2 2 13 199 212

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Second 2 47 49 27 389 416

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Third -- 3 3 11 234 245

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July:

First -- -- -- 2 31 33

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Second -- -- -- 1 43 44

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Third 1 2 3 11 121 132

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Total 3 78 81 84 1,473 1,537

D. S. STANLEY,

Major-General, Commanding.

ATLANTA, GA., September -, 1864.


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