89 Series I Volume XXXVIII-III Serial 74 - The Atlanta Campaign Part III
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[First indorsement.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Near Lovejoy's Station, Ga., September 4, 1864.Respectfully forwarded.
In addition to the enemy's loss reported within, there were buried in front of the Sixteenth Corps, General Ransom commanding, 57 of the enemy's dead; 92 prisoners were captured. Our loss in Sixteenth Corps, 1 officer and 1 enlisted man killed and 16 wounded. In front of that portion of the Seventeenth Corps engaged, the enemy's loss, as far as ascertained, is 250 killed and wounded and 12 prisoners; our loss, 11 enlisted men wounded. The officers and men fully sustained their reputation.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
[Second indorsement.]
This report is very satisfactory. I return it to General Howard, as he will need the statistics to make up the general report.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
Report of casualties in Fifteenth Army Corps August 31, 1864.
Killed. Wounded.
Command. Officers. Men. Officers. Men.
First Division, ... 3 4 27
Major General
P. J. Osterhaus.
Second Division, ... 16 ... 62
Brigadier
General W. B.
Hazen.
Fourth Division, ... 5 1 32
Brigadier
General William
Harrow.
Total. ... 24 5 121
Missing. Total.
Command. Officers Men. Officers Men. Aggregate
First Division, ... 1 4 31 35
Major General
P. J. Osterhaus.
Second Division, ... 3 ... 81 81
Brigadier
General W. B.
Hazen.
Fourth Division, ... ... 1 37 38
Brigadier
General William
Harrow.
Total. ... 4 5 149 154
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Major-General, Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps.
List of casualties in Fifteenth Army Corps September 1, 1864.
Killed. Wounded.
Command. Officers. Men. Officers. Men.
First Division. 1 2 2 30
Second Division. 1 5 ... 18
Fourth Division. 1 5 3 19
Total. 3 12 5 67
Missing. Total.
Command. Officers Men. Officers. Men. Aggregate
First Division. ... ... 3 32 35
Second Division. .... 1 1 24 25
Fourth Division. ... 1 4 25 29
Total. ... 2 8 81 89
H. N. WHEELER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
(The major-general commanding not present.)
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