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From those hard to copy reports in the O.R.

HEADQUARTERS MAURY’s DIVISION,
Vicksburg, March 16, 1863.
Lieutenant Wood,
Commanding Section Bledsoe’s Battery:

LIEUTENANT: General Maury desires me to express to you his pleasure at the handsome conduct of yourself and the members of your section of artillery in your late engagement with the enemy in the Deer Creek country (North of Vicksburg), and to inclose you a copy of his letter requesting the names of the battles in which Bledsoe’s battery has participated to be inscribed upon its flag.
Very respectfully, &c., D. W. FLOWERREE,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

Organization of troops in the Third Military District, Department of
Mississippi and East Louisiana, Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, C. &
Army, commanding, March 31, 1863—Continued.

GREGG’S BRIGADE.

Brig. Gen. John GREGG.

9th Louisiana Battalion, Capt. T. B. R.
Chin.
3d Tennessee, Col. R. W. MacGavock.
10th Tennessee, Col. R. W. MacGavock.
30th Tennessee, Col. R. W. MacGavock.
41st Tennessee, Lieut. Col. T. W. Beau-
mont.
50th Tennessee, Lient. Col. T. W. Beau-
mont.
51st Tennessee, Lieut. Col. T. W. Beau-
mont.
1st Tennessee Battalion, Lieut. Col. T.
W. Beaumont.
7th Texas, Maj. K. M. Van Zandt.
Brookhaven (Mississippi) Artillery, Capt.
J.A. Hoskins.
Missouri battery,* Capt. H. M. Bledsoe.
On return from which this compilation is made Bledsoe’s battery appears also as
in Moore’s brigade.
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Organization of the troops in the Department of Mississippi and Eastern
Louisiana, Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton, commanding, April, 1863.*

Maury's Division

POST AT SNYDER’S BLUFF.

Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert

First Brigade.

Col. W. W. WITHERSPOON.

3d Louisiana, Maj. David Pierson [I].
36th Mississippi, Col. W. W. Witherspoon.
37th Mississippi, Col. 0. 5. Holland.
38th Mississippi, Col. Preston Brent.
434 Mississippi, Col. R. Harrison.
Appeal (Arkansas) Battery, Capt.William
N. Hogg.

Second Brigade.

Brig. Gen. J. C. MOORE.

37th Alabama, Col. James F. Dowdell.
42d Alabama, Col. J. W. Portis.
35th Mississippi, Col. W. S. Barry.
40th Mississippi, Col. XV. B. Colbert.

24 Texas, Col. Ashbel Smith.
Missouri Battery, Capt. H. M. Bledsoe.
At Fort Pemberton; the Thirty-seventh Alabama and Fortieth Mississippi reported
also as attached to Tilghman’s brigade. See also Loring’s command.

Moore’s Command

37th Mississippi, Col. 0. 5. Holland.
1st [7th] Tennessee Cavalry, Col. J. G. Stocks.
Texas Legion, Col. T. N. Waul.
Point Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, Company B, Capt. W. A. Davidson.
Point Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery (section), Lieut. Jefferson J. Thompson.
Tennessee Battery; Capt. T. F. Tobin.

See also Maury’s division. The Thirty—seventh Mississippi reported also as at
Snyder’s Bluff, under Witherspoon, and in Tilgliman’s brigade.
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Gregg’s Brigade.
Headquarters at Port Hudson

Brig. Gen. JOHN GREGG.

9th Louisiana Battalion, Capt. T. B. R.
Chinn
3d Tennessee,
10th Tennessee, 1Col. R. W. MacGavock.
30th Tennessee,
41st Tennessee,
50th Tennessee, Lient. Col. Thomas
51st Tennessee, W. Beaumont.
1st Tenn. Batt’n,
7th Texas, Maj. K. M. Vanzandt.
Brookhaven (Mississippi) Artillery, Capt.
J.A. Hoskins.
Missouri Battery, Capt. H. M. Bledsoe.

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