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Recapitulation.
| Killed | 3 |
| Wounded | 22 |
| | |
| Total | 25 |
I take pleasure in calling your attention to the gallant and enthusiastic conduct of
private John Thompson, Company F, and
J. M. Byrd, Company G, who boldly moved in advance of the command and discharged their arms with due caution and alacrity.
They were the first to open fire and last to quit the field, and I am happy, while reporting the especially worthy conduct of those two privates, not to have a solitary instance of cowardice or wavering to report, the whole command having advanced and stood under the fire from which older troops and greater numbers had retired.
Very respectfully,
John Snodgrass,
Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding Fourth Alabama Battalion.
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| commands. | killed. | mortally wounded. | severely wounded. | slightly wounded. | missing. | remarks. |
| Second brigade. | | | | | | |
| Fifth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers | 9 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 1 | |
| Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteers | 5 | | | 13 | 1 | |
| Thirty-first Regiment Mississippi Volunteers | 10 | 6 | 15 | 16 | | |
| Thirty-first Regiment Alabama Volunteers | 2 | | | 9 | 1 | |
| Fourth Alabama Battalion | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | | |
| Hudson's Battery | | | 3 | 3 | | |
| Fourth brigade. | | | | | | |
| Nineteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers | | | 1 | | 1 | |
| Twentieth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers | | | 1 | 1 | | |
| Twenty-eighth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | |
| Forty-fifth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | |
| Fifteenth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers | | | | | 1 | This regiment was held in reserve. |
| Twenty-second Regiment Mississippi Volunteers | 13 | | 18 | 16 | 1 | |
| Cobb's Battery | | | | | | |
| Total | 44 | 11 | 52 | 89 | 6 | |
Respectfully submitted,
Officers mentioned for Gallant Conduct at the Battle of Baton Rouge, Exhibit “A,” Report of the First Division.
Captain Hughes, commanding Twenty-second Mississippi regiment.
Brigadier-General Charles Clark and his Aides.
Lieutenants Spooner and
Yerger.
Major H. E. Topp, of the Thirty-first Mississippi regiment,
Major Brown,
Chief of Subsistence.
Captain J. H. Miller, commanding Fourth Kentucky regiment.
Colonel Crossland, Seventh Kentucky regiment.
Major J. C. Wickliffe, of the Fifth Kentucky.
Privates John Thompson, Company H, and
J. M. Byrd, Company G, Fourth Alabama battalion.
Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, of the Nineteenth Tennessee regiment.
Adjutant Fitzpatrick, Twenty-second Mississippi regiment.
T. B. Smith,
Major: The following report of the attack and defence of
Vicksburg is respectfully submitted to the
Major-General commanding the District of Mississippi:
I assumed command of
Vicksburg and its defences on the twelfth of May, in obedience to orders from
Major-General Lovell, and proceeded at once to prepare for the approach of the enemy, then known to have passed
Baton Rouge with a formidable fleet, having in view to open the river to
Memphis and
Fort Pillow, then in our possession.
At the time of arriving, the state of preparation for defence was as follows: Of the ten batteries that have been in use, three were mostly completed, and the fourth begun.
The armed troops present consisted of the remnant of the Eighth Louisiana battalion,
Lieutenant-Colonel Pinckney, and the Twenty-seventh
