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63 Series I Volume XXXVIII-III Serial 74 - The Atlanta Campaign Part III

Page 63 Chapter L. REPORTS, ETC.-ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

Return of artillery ammunition expended by the batteries of the Army of the Tennessee from May 13 to September 4, 1864.

Fifteenth Sixteenth Seventeen Total.

Army Army th Army

Corps. Corps. Corps.

20-pounder

Parrott:

Solid shot. 712 ... 354 ...

Case-shot. 756 ... 103 ...

Percussion-shell. 973 ... 2,549 ...

Fuse-shell. 2,570 ... 1,049 ...

Canister. 172 ... 1 ...

Total. 5,183 ... 4,056 ....

10-pounder

Parrott:

Solid shot. 252 ... ... ...

Case-shot. 1,474 ... ... ...

Percussion-shell. 1,009 ... ... ...

Fuse-shell. 1,321 ... ... ...

Canister. 115 ... ... ....

Total. 4,171 ... ... ...

3-inch Rodman:

Solid shot. 57 ... 10 ..

Case-shot. 274 ... 2,767 ...

Percussion-shell. 137 ... 2,062 ...

Fuse-shell. 2,321 ... 6,154 ...

Canister. 7 ... 53 ...

Total. 2,796 ... 11,046 ...

6-pounder James:

Case-shot. 40 ... ... ...

Percussion-shell. 21 ... ... ...

Fuse-shell. 30 ... ... ...

Total. 91 ... ... ...

12-pounder gun:

Solid shot. 2,147 ... 824 ...

Case-shot. 4,764 ... 1,017 ...

Shell. 2,911 ... 291 ....

Canister. 223 ... 27 ...

Total. 10,045 ... 2,159 ...

24-pounder

howitzer:

Solid shot. .... ... ... ...

Case-shot. ... ... 554 ...

Shell. ... ... 661 ...

Canister. .. ... 15 ...

Total. ... ... 1,230 ...

12-pounder

howitzer:

Shell. 841 ... ... ...

Case-shot. 652 ... ... ...

Canister. .... ... ... ...

Total. 1,493 ... ... ...

Total number of 23,779 12,882 18,491 55,092

rounds.

T. W. OSBORN,

Major First New York Light Artillery and Chief of Artillery, Dept. and Army of the Tennessee.


Numbers 443.

Report of Captain Chauncey B. Reese, U. S. Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
Near East Point, Ga., September 14, 1864.

SIR: In accordance with your instructions of the 4th instant, I have the honor to submit the following report of engineering operations


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