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Office Chief of Artillery,
Meridian, Miss.
There is at present no such organization as the Appeal Battery. The greater part of this Battery never reported at Parole Camp after being captured at Vicksburg. The officers are in Arkansas. The few men exchanged have been assigned to different commands, and the Battery can never be reorganized.
The Hudson Battery is composed of four guns. Its effective total per report for month of July was:
Total Present & Absent, 112.
Total Present, 85.
Of this number, eighteen (18) are temporarily attached, originally belonging to the Watson Battery.
Prisoners of War, three (3).
Disabled by wounds in battle and never be fit for service six (6).
The number of enlisted men allowed for a four-gun Battery under Genl. Orders No. 81, A. & I.G. Office, Richmond, Nov. 1, 1862, is as follows:
Minimum, 73.
Maximum, 144.
JAMES L. HOOLE,
Capt. & Insp’r of Artillery.