Letter

John G. Parke to Seth Williams, November 11, 1864

HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,

November 11, 1864. Brig. Gen. S. WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Potomac:

GENERAL: In compliance with paragraph 6 of Special Orders, No. 279, current series, from headquarters Army of the Potomac, I have the honor to submit the following report of guns captured or lost from May 4 to November 1, 1864, by this corps:

First Division—No guns captured or lost.

Second Division—Two guns captured by the Thirty-sixth and Fiftyeighth Massachusetts Volunteers and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Vetran Volunteers, one by the Eleventh New Hampshire, and one by the Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers, before Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864.

Third Division—No guns captured or lost.

Artillery Brigade—No guns captured or lost.

I have the honor to be, general, your obedient servant,

JOHN G. PARKE,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE Potomac,
August 3, 1864.
Commanding Ninth Corps '
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: John G. Parke reports to Brig. Gen. S. Williams the capture of four guns by specific Ninth Corps divisions during the Petersburg campaign between May and November 1864.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 40, Part 1 View original source ↗