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(Partial Order of Battle)
Organization of the Department of the Tennessee, Major General Ulysses S.  Grant, U.  S.  Army, commanding, April 30,1863.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.
Engineer (Missouri) troops, Major Henry Flad.
Pioneer Corps, Captain John W.  Fouts.
4th Illinois Cavalry, Company A, Captain Embury D.  Osband.

 THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS.
Major General John A.  McClernand.

Fifteenth ARMY CORPS.
Major General WILLIAM T.  SHERMAN.

SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS. +
Major General STEPHEN A.  HURLBUT.

SEVENTH DIVISION.
Colonel John B.  SANBORN. *

First Brigade.
Colonel JESSE I.  ALEXANDER. +
48th Indiana, Colonel Norman Eddy.
59th Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel Jefferson K.  Scott.
4th Minnesota, Lieutenant Colonel John E.  Tourtellotte.

SECOND Brigade.
Colonel SAMUEL A.  HOLMES. ++
56th Illinois, Colonel Green B.  Raum.
17th Iowa, Colonel David B.  Hillis.
10th Missouri, Lieutenant Colonel Leonidas Horney.
24th Missouri, Company F, Lieutenant Daniel Driscoll.
80th Ohio, Colonel Matthias H.  Bartilson.

THIRD Brigade.
Colonel GEORGE B.  BOOMER.
93rd Illinois, colonel Holden Putnam.
5th Iowa, lieutenant Colonel Ezekiel S.  Sampson.
10th Iowa, Colonel William E.  Small.
26th Missouri, major Charles F.  Brown.

Artillery.
Captain FRANK C.  SANDS.

1st Missouri Light,  Battery M, Lieutenant Junius W.  MacMurray.
11th Ohio Battery, Lieutenant Fletcher E.  Armstrong.
6th Wisconsin Battery, Captain Henry Dillon.
12th Wisconsin Battery, Captain William Zickerick.

Escort.
2nd Illinois Cavalry, Company E  } Captain Samuel P.  Tipton.
5th Missouri Cavalry, Company C }