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tain commanding (only one company during siege, First Lieutenant Oct. Daliet commanding) ; Thirty-ninth Mississippi, W. B. Shelby Colonel commanding.

Sig7ial Corps— Lieuteyiant Stevens, Commanding.

Artillery — Seven pieces Herrod's battery, First Mississippi regi- ment light artillery; two 12-pound Blakely guns, Lieutenant Cook; two guns Watson's battery. Lieutenant Toledano ; two small breech loaders, Whitworth, of Wingfield's battalion. Captain Sparkman.

CONFEDERATE LOSS.

May 20 — Killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Total, 89 — Report of Miles.

May 27 — Killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Total, 225.

Surrendered.

" Banks's" report — 6,408 men.

(Page 137), twenty pieces heavy artillery, 31 pieces light artillery, 30 pieces dismounted; 5,000 good muskets, and 5,000 not good; 32,000 pounds powder in magazine ; 12,000 made up; 150,000 car- tridges for small arms. Colonel Ben. Johnson, say about 3,000 active, and 1,250 sick and wounded — total, 4.250.

FEDERAL FORCES.

Nathaniel P. Banks, Major- General commanding (from General Banks's Campaign of Port Hudson).

Right — General Weitzel and General Grover. (Banks's Report, page 146).

Centre — General Augur, 3,500 men (Banks's Report),

Artillery — Seventeen 3 inch rifle, Rambridge, Hebrard, &c. four 6-inch rifle, heavy ; nine naval batteries, Dahlgren-Ferry ; four siege mortars, Terry ; twelve 8-inch siege howitzer- mortars, &c. six 6-pounders, Sawyer; two 9 pounders, Dahlgren ; eighteen 12 pounder howitzers. Napoleons, &c. ; fifteen 20-pounder Parrotts five 24-pounder Parrotts, and seven 30-pounder Parrotts.

Left — General T. W. Sherman.

Effective Force — "Banks's Report," pages 128 and 146 — 13,000 on May 27 ; March 14th, 12,000 ; J. Franklin Fitts (in "June Day,"