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engineer; Lieutenant Pepoon, provost-marshal; Captain Hodgdon, commissary; Lieutenant Dean, controlling ambulances, and Lieutenant Conyers, commanding provost guards--I can most truthfully say that every member of it has so demeaned himself as to merit promotion. Brave, faithful, and efficient, they are an honor to the positions they hold.
Respectfully,
WALTER C. WHITAKER,
Brigadier-General, Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Corps, Army of Cumberland.
Major SINCLAIR,
Asst. Adjt. General, First Division, Fourth Corps.
[Inclosure Numbers 1.]
List of prisoners captured by Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, during the months of May and June, 18643.
Date Officers Men. Total
May 14 -- 11 11
May 15 -- 2 2
May 16 -- 2 2
May 18 -- 2 3
May 19 -- 9 9
June 2 -- 2 2
June 5 -- 1 1
June 15 -- 1 1
June 19 -- 6 6
June 20 1 25 26
June 23 2 17 19
June 23 -- 9 9
Total 3 88 91
G. W. PEPOON,
First Lieutenant and Provost-Marshal.
[Inclosure Numbers 2.]
Effective force of Second Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, May 3, 1864.
Infantry Artillery
Command Officers Men Officers Men Aggregat
e
96th 18 354 -- -- 372
Illinois
,
Colonel
Champaig
n
115th 24 357 -- -- 381
Illinois
,
Colonel
J. H.
Moore
40th 10 379 -- -- 389
Ohio,
Colonel
Taylor
51st 17 447 -- -- 464
Ohio,
Colonel
McClain
99th 24 314 -- -- 338
Ohio,
Lieutena
nt-
Colonel
Cummins
84th 18 388 -- -- 406
Indiana,
Colonel
Neff
35th 19 244 -- -- 263
Indiana,
Major
Dufficy
21st 123 258 -- -- 281
Kentucky
,
Colonel
Price
5th -- -- 2 132 134
Indiana
Battery,
Lieutena
nt
Morrison
Total 153 2,741 2 132 3,028
H. F. TEMPLE,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
BLUE SPRINGS, TENN., May 3, 1864.
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