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Addenda.

Report of casualties of the Fourth Army Corps from May 3 to June 5, 1864.

Command.Killed.Wounded.Missing.Aggregate.
Officers.Men.Officers.Men.Officers.Men.
Headquarters Fourth Army Corps0010011
First Division1601739002218472
Second Division916241831011501,004
Third Division20271611,2494251851,771
Total304931202,47142841543,248

Brigadier-General Wood reports 255 of his men as missing at the action of May 27, and in reference thereto appends to his report a written explanation, of which the following is a copy:

I visited the battle-field of Pickett's Mills twice yesterday and examined it closely. The numerous single graves and several lines of trenches on the battlefield outside of the enemy's intrenchments (capable of containing from twenty-five to forty bodies) fully explain where most of the 255 missing of that day went to. I am fully satisfied that nearly the whole of them were either killed outright on the field or were wounded and could not be brought away, and fell into the hands of the enemy when we abandoned the field at 10 p. m. on the 27th.

Respectfully submitted.

O. O. Howard, Major-General, Commanding. headquarters Fourth Army Corps, Near Acworth, Ga., June 8, 1864.
Brigadier-General Whipple, Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.

List of casualties in Fourth Army Corps in action of June 27, 1864.

Command.Killed.Wounded.Missing.Aggregate.
Officers.Men.Officers.Men.Officers.Men.
First Division17777700884
Second Division1270454418258597
Third Division1260027
Total13785452818268688
Total loss,756.

Respectfully submitted.

O. O. Howard, Major-General, Commanding. Brig. Gen. William D. Whipple, A. A. G. and Chief of Staff, Dept. of the Cumberland.

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office. 1891.

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