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men for battle when the campaign opened
Its loss TO May 9th was therefore about 10000
men. lt suffered heavy casualties at Bethesda
Church May 30 where Pegrams Brigade alone
lost 300 mon, at Shady Grove June 2, where
Gen. Doles was killed, and on June 3, when its
entire front was assaulted. Eleven thousand is
fair estimate of the losses of this corps, when,
on June 13, under command of Gen. Early,
il was detached TO operate in the Shenandoah
Valley. OF the IL brigades in the corps OF
Gen. A. 7. Hill, two, Lanes and McGowan's, re-
port 2,24l killed, wounded and missing May :
TO Juno 10 inclusive. The casualty list OF
Harris's Brigade, aggregating d02 May TO -,
is published in the Richmond Examiner of May
81, 1864. while Perrine's Brigade is reported as
losing, from May - TO %. 427.
Moore's History of North Carolina gives the
casualties in Cookies Brigade May TO Oct. /
as 17S6, being about the same as MCGowans,
and l79 more than Lanes for the same period.
Except MabOne's Division, which was not en-
gagged on tho first day of the battle of the
Wilderness, the brigades of Hills Corps were
in the same battles, and as the figures given in
dictate, suffered in about equal proportion.
Twelve thousand is not too much for the aggre-
gate loss of this corps, May TO June -.
LOngstreet's Corps suffered less than either
of the others, but ID lost heavily in the desper-
ate battle Of May 6, where it saved the army
from defeat; at Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania and
at Cold HarbOr June /, where its lines were
broken. Four Of its brigades officially report
1,S05 casualties May TO juno - indicating n
loss of over 1000 in the corps. To this should
be added 1000 for the losses of Picketts and
Hoke's Divisions which were attached to Long
streets Corps.
Brcckinridge's Division was driven out of
its trenches by Barlow's Division of Hancock 3
Corps, at Cold Harbor, with heavy loss. The
works were retalzen by gallant charge of Fin
negan's Brigade and the Maryland line. That
their causalties were large is evident for Bar
lows men were accustomed TO victory aud OK
acted a heavy toll in blood before yielding the
captured line. The Richmond Examiner, June
8, 1864 gives the names of 2l9 killed, wounded
and missing in a single battalion (tho Goth Va }
of BreckiHrdge's Division, in this battle.
The names of 7S2 officers and men killed,
wounded and missing in the brigades of Lomax
and WiCkham of Gen. Fitz- Hugh Lees Cav
airy Division, May to May Is arc published
in the Richmond Seminal May % 1864. The
names of $50 men of Wickham's Brigade lost
May 81 to 81, are published in the Sentinel of
June IL. GordOn's Cavalry brigade reported
% casualties May IL and -. Gen. Wade
Hampton, in his official report (10) of the
battle of Trevilian Station June Ii,
gives the casualties in his division rs GLE.
There are no reports of the losses in Hampton s
Division prior to June and Except as above
given for Wickham's Brigade) of Fitz Lees
Division after May I3, though the entire cav
airy command was constantly under fire It's
loss 20 and including the battle at Trevilian
must have been rs much as $500.
It is fair conclusion from the figures given
that the Army of Northern Virginia lost in the
campaign from the Rapidan to the James in May
and June, 1864, in killed, wounded and miss
ing, $4,000 men.-E &. D., Cincinnati, o..
a. June l. Keitt's big regiment gives way. and
In the effort 10 rally t ket Is MORALLY wounded"
Official diary Longstreei's Corps, Southern HistoTi-
cal Society Papers, Volume =.
a. Return OF Department OF North Carolina that
date
g. The other detached regiment from Rodrs'a
Division was tie 26th Ala, which was transferred
TO Gen. Johuston's army.
a. SO per cent. Of their aggregate present for
duty May Is. See History %. Mass. page 2s7.
o. Gen. BrccSiBriiEe taking my largest Tegi-
meHt, the CD Va Imbodcn Ia Annals OF the
War page III.
o. Return Department OF Richmond in May,
1854. gives strength Of Barton's aud Huuton's Bri
gades. COrse Is reported ia return Department OF
North Carolina. Feb. l6 1864. Tcrrys Is estimated
at the average Of the other three.
a. Holsc's strength j. from Gen. Bcauregard's
return 2lst May, 1865 published ia Volume Three
81 Southern Historical Papers. Artillery with
Pickett md Hope from same return.
o. Rebel war clerks diary.
o. Southern Historical Society Papers volume b.
Q0l Southern Historical Papers, vol. z.