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  • [575] (forty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-six); cavalry, ten thousand and twenty-three. On the 3d of July, at Vining's Station, the Fifth and Forty-seventh Georgia regiments (about six hundred effectives) left the army for Savannah, under Brigadier-General J. K. Jackson.
  • 5. The next and last return made under General Johnston was on the 10th of July. Effectives: Infantry, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and one; artillery, three thousand seven hundred and fifty-five (forty thousand six hundred and fifty-six); cavalry, nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one (exclusive of escorts serving with infantry). This was the estimated force turned over by General Johnston to General Hood.
  • 6. The report was made under General Johnston, and signed by General Hood. On the 18th of July the command was turned over to General Hood. The first return thereafter was that of August 1st, after the engagements of Peach-tree Creek, on the 21st, and around Atlanta, on the 22d and 28th July.
  • 7. The foregoing figures are taken from the official records kept by me as Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army.

(Signed) Kinloch Falconer, Assistant Adjutant-General.

In the return of the Army of Tennessee, printed July 10, 1864, opposite to “Hardee's corps,” in the column of remarks, is written: “One hundred and seven officers and two thousand and fifty-two men, prisoners of war, are reported among the ‘ absent without leave.’ ” And, opposite to “Hood's corps,” “two hundred and thirty-eight officers and four thousand five hundred and ninety-seven men, prisoners of war, are reported among the ‘ absent without leave.’ ” Below is written this explanation, in Major Falconer's handwriting: “The officers and soldiers reported ‘absent without leave,’ and who are ‘ prisoners of war,’ include all captured in the army in all previous engagements, and some of whom have hitherto been incorrectly reported ‘ absent without leave’ or ‘ absent.’ ”

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