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WASHINGTON, CITY, October 15, 1862.
HonorableE. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
In compliance with your request I have the honor to submit a
plan for the organization of the army designed to form the
Mississippi expedition:
Twenty-four thousand infantry, 1,000 sharpshooters, 400
Sappers and Miners, 3,000 cavalry, 1,500 light artillery, 100
heavy artillery.
Number and caliber of guns required to arm ten batteries of
light
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artillery; Fourteen 10-pounder Parrott guns; twenty-eight
Napoleon guns; six 24-pounder howitzers (brass); eight
6-pounder smooth-bore guns (brass); four 12-pounder howitzers
(brass).
Number and caliber of guns for siege train: Eight 30-pounder
Parrott guns; four 10-inch mortars.
Please assign Lieutenant James H. Wilson, Engineers, U. S.
Army, who is now here, for duty as a member of my staff.
Your obedient servant,
JOHN A. McCLERNAND,
Major-General.