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made, to wit: command. commanding officer. officers. men. aggregate. total. Fourteenth Army Corps. Colonel J. G. Mitchell, commanding.         First Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Lister 8 526 534   Second Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel William O'Brien 4 256 260 794 Twentieth Army Corps. Colonel Benjamin Harrison, commanding.         First Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel McManis 8 399 407   Second Battalion Major Haskins 6 304 310 717   Lieutenant-Colonel Banning, commandt Scottsboro, viz.: one captain and three (3) soldiers. Patrol parties were sent from Colonels Mitchell's, Malloy's and Thompson's commands, to scour the woods along the river, and to watch the various ferrying places in the vicinity. Lieutenant-Colonel O'Brien's battalion of the Fourteenth corps detachment was placed opposite Gunter's Landing. The few cattle and sheep the country afforded were collected by the commissary, and distributed to the command. The gun-boats on the river had no
officer were thereby lost to his command during the residue of the campaign. The following statement exhibits the number of officers and men comprising the command, on leaving Chattanooga, and the formation of battalions and brigades temporarily made, to wit: command. commanding officer. officers. men. aggregate. total. Fourteenth Army Corps. Colonel J. G. Mitchell, commanding.         First Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Lister 8 526 534   Second Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel William O'Brien 4 256 260 794 Twentieth Army Corps. Colonel Benjamin Harrison, commanding.         First Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel McManis 8 399 407   Second Battalion Major Haskins 6 304 310 717   Lieutenant-Colonel Banning, commanding.         Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Captain Henderson 9 316 325   Third Battery, Fourteenth A. C. Major Roatch 8 311 319 644 Seventeenth Army Corps. Colonel A. G. Malloy, commanding.         Field and Staff   3
f possible by daylight. He marched his command vigorously pursuing the enemy retreating as squads, and making the points ordered. The ambulance, wagon and artillery harness, which General Lyon had with him, were captured, as well as those wounded at Scottsboro, viz.: one captain and three (3) soldiers. Patrol parties were sent from Colonels Mitchell's, Malloy's and Thompson's commands, to scour the woods along the river, and to watch the various ferrying places in the vicinity. Lieutenant-Colonel O'Brien's battalion of the Fourteenth corps detachment was placed opposite Gunter's Landing. The few cattle and sheep the country afforded were collected by the commissary, and distributed to the command. The gun-boats on the river had no cooperation with me. I was able to get on board but one of them, the U. S. Grant, I think. The commanding officer was informed of the nature of my dispositions, and all the intelligence that had been obtained. By some mistake, one of the gun-boats, as