Part I - Don's Metal Detecting Forum

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Austrian bayonets 98 98
Infantry accouterments:
Cartridge-boxes and plates 1,919 1,919
Cartridge-box belts and plates 882 882
Waistbeltsandplates 1,023 1,023
Cap pouches 982 982
Bayonet scabbards 923 923
Sets of, jncomplete 550 550
Lost—
Small-arms: Springfield and Enfield rifles, .58 1,277 .
1,277
Cannon: 3-incb Rodmans, General Kilratrick 2
Surplus, small-arms: Springfield, EnfleTh, Spencer, 5,279
5,279
Whitney, Dresden, Austrian, and Colt rifles.
Captured, and destroyed by fire for want of transportation,
by order of Major-General Thomas:
12-pounder gun carriages 6 6
10-pounder gun carriages 2 2
Field caissons 4 4
Limbers 7 7
Wbeel traces
Sponges and staves 9 9
Wormers 2 2
Prolonges 8 8
Hand-spikes, trail 10 10
Elevatingscrews 4 4
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Total cannon captured 48
Total small-arms captured 6,956
Total small-arms lost 1,277
Total cannon lost 2
Total small-arms surplus .
0. E. MJCHAELJS,
•Lieut. of Ord., Actg. ChieJ f Ord., Dept. of the (Jumberland.
ATLANTA, GA., September 15, 1864.
A D DEN D A.
CIRCULAR.] - HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
- Near Mianta, Ga., July 25, 1864.
The major-general comnianding Congratulates the troops upon the
brilliant 5UCC~55 which has attended the Union arms in the late
battles, and which has been officiall’y reported, as follows:
In the battle of the 20th instant, in which the Twentieth Corps,
one division of the Fourth Corps, and p art of the Fourteenth Corps,
was eiigaged, ~total Union loss in killed, wounded, and missing,
1,733. In front of the Twentieth Corps there were put ont of the
fight 6,000 rebels. Five hundred and sixty-three of the enemy were
buried by our own troops, and the rebels were permitted to bury 250
additional themselves. The Second Division, of the Fourth Corps,
repulsed seven assaults of the enemy with slight loss to themselves,
which must swell the rebel loss much beyond 6,000. Prisoners captured,
300, and 7 stand of colors. No report has yet been received of
the part taken in this battle by the Fourteenth Army Corps.
174
C~is’. L.] REPORTS, ETC.—ARMY OF THE CIJMBERLAND.
175
In the battle of the 22d the total Union loss in killed, wounded,
and missing, 3,500, and 10 pieces of artillery. Rebel loss, prisoners
captured, 3,200. Known dead of the enemy in front of the Fifteenth
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