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Page 447 Chapter XXIII. BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG, VA.

MAY 5, 1862.-Battle of Williamsburg, Va.

REPORTS, ETC.


Numbers 1.-Major General George B. McClellan, U. S. Army, commanding Army of the Potomac.


Numbers 2.-Return of Casualties in the Union forces.


Numbers 3.-Brigadier General Edwin V. Sumner, U. S. Army.


Numbers 4.-Brigadier General Samuel P. Heintzelman, U. S. Army, commanding Third Corps.


Numbers 5.-Lieutenant Miles D. McAlester, U. S. Engineer Corps.


Numbers 6.-Brigadier General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division.


Numbers 7.-Major Charles S. Wainwright, Chief of Artillery.


Numbers 8.-Brigadier General Cuvier Grover, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade.


Numbers 9.-Colonel Robert Cowdin, First Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 10.-Colonel William Blaisdell, Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry.


Numbers 11.-Colonel Gilman Marston, Second New Hampshire Infantry.


Numbers 12.-Colonel William F. Small, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 13.-Major Casper M. Berry, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 14.-Colonel Nelson Taylor, Seventy-second New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 15.-Colonel William Dwight, jr., Seventieth New York Infantry.


Numbers 16.-Major Thomas Holt, Seventieth New York Infantry.


Numbers 17.-Lieutenant Colonel Israel Moses, Seventy-second New York Infantry.


Numbers 18.-Colonel William R. Brewster, Seventy-third New York Infantry.


Numbers 19.-Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Burtis, Seventy-fourth New York Infantry.


Numbers 20.-Brigadier General Francis E. Patterson, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade.


Numbers 21.-Colonel Samuel H. Starr, Fifth New Jersey Infantry.


Numbers 22.-Major Francis Price, jr., Seventh New Jersey Infantry.


Numbers 23.-Brigadier General Philip Kearny, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.


Numbers 24.-Captain James Thompson, Second U. S. Artillery, Chief of Artillery.


Numbers 25.-Brigadier General Charles D. Jameson, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade.


Numbers 26.-Colonel Stephen A. Dodge, Eighty-seventh New York Infantry.


Numbers 27.-Brigadier General David B. Birney, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 28.-Colonel Henry G. Staples, Third Maine Infantry.


Numbers 29.-Colonel Elijah Walker, Fourth Maine Infantry.


Numbers 30.-Colonel J. H. Hobart Ward, Thirty-eighth New York Infantry.


Numbers 31.-Colonel Edward J. Riley, Fortieth New York Infantry.


Numbers 32.-Brigadier General Hiram G. Berry, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade.


Numbers 33.-Colonel Orlando M. Poe, Second Michigan Infantry.


Numbers 34.-Colonel Henry D. Terry, Fifth Michigan Infantry.


Numbers 35.-Colonel Samuel B. Hayman, Thirty-seventh New York Infantry.


Numbers 36.-Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes, U. S. Army, commanding Fourth Corps.


Numbers 37.-Major Joseph H. Whittlesey, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, of operations May 4-7.


Numbers 38.-Brigadier General Darius N. Couch, U. S. Army, commanding First Division.


Numbers 39.-Major Robert M. West, Chief of Artillery.


Numbers 40.-Colonel Julius W. Adams, Sixty-seventh New York Infantry, commanding First Brigade, of operations May 4-7.


Numbers 41.-Brigadier General John J. Peck, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 42.-Colonel Thomas A. Rowley, One hundred and second Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 43.-Brigadier General Charles Devens, jr., U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade.


Numbers 44.-Brigadier General William F. Smith, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division.


Numbers 45.-Captain Romeyn B. Ayres, Fifth U. S. Artillery, Chief of Artillery.


Numbers 46.-Lieutenant Charles Kusserow, Adjutant of Artillery.


Numbers 47.-Captain Charles C. Wheeler, Battery E, First New York Light Artillery.


Numbers 48.-Lieutenant Andrew Cowan, First New York Battery.


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