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me also many causes of disintegration. The rebel General Wheeler was still in Middle Tennessee, threatening our railroads, and rumors came that Forrest was on his way from Mississippi to the same theatre, for the avowed purpose of breaking up our railroads and compelling us to fall back from our conquest. To prepare for this, or any other emergency, I ordered Newton's division of the Fourth Corps back to Chattanooga, and Corse's division of the Seventeenth Corps to Rome, and instructed General Rousseau at Nashville, Granger at Decatur, and Steadman at Chattanooga, to adopt the most active measures to protect and insure the safety of our roads. Hood still remained about Lovejoy's Station, and, up to the 15th of September, had given no signs of his future plans; so that with this date I close the campaign of Atlanta, with the following review of our relative losses during the months of August and September, with a summary of those for the whole campaign, beginning May 6 and ending September 15, 1864. The losses for August and September are added together, so as to include those about Jonesboro: Killed and Missing Wounded Total Grand Aggregate..... 1,408 3,731 5,139 Hood's losses, as reported for the same period, page 577, Johnston's "Narrative:" Killed Wounded Total 482 3,223 3,705 To which should be added: Prisoners captured by us:............ 3,738 Giving his total loss ............... 7,440 On recapitulating the entire losses of each army during the entire campaign, from May to September, inclusive, we have, in the Union army, as per table appended: Killed ........................ 4,423 Wounded ....................... 22,822 Missing........................ 4,442 Aggregate Loss ......... 31,627 In the Southern army, according to the reports of Surgeon Foard (pp. 576, 577, Johnston's "Narrative ") Total killed ................ 3,044 Total killed and wounded..... 21,996 Prisoners captured by us .... 12,983 Aggregate loss to the Southern Army .......... 34,979 The foregoing figures are official, and are very nearly correct. I see no room for error save in the cavalry, which was very much scattered, and whose reports are much less reliable than of the infantry and arti
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