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860 Series I Volume XIX-I Serial 27 - Antietam Part I

Page 860 OPERATIONS IN N. VA.,W. VA.,MD.,AND PA. Chapter XXXI.

The losses in the different brigades, including the different batteries, were as follows:

Carried into Killed and

action. wounded.

Command. Offi- Enlisted Offi- Enlisted

cers. men. cers. men.

Brigadier-General 112 824 44 305

Kershaw.

Brigadier-General 63 646 27 281

Semmes.

Brigadier-General 89 802 32 258

Barksdale.

Brigadier-General Cobb.

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357 11 135

CONTINUATION:

Command. Missing. Per General

cent. average

Brigadier-General Kershaw. 6 38

Brigadier-General Semmes. 6 44

Brigadier-General Barksdale. 4 33
39.5

Brigadier-General Cobb. 10 43

Which, taken in connection with the small number of missing, shows how dearly, yet how gloriously, their success was obtained.

It is with sincere regret that I have to state my adjutant-general, Major T. S. McIntosh, was killed, shot through the heart while carrying out one of my orders. The country has lost in him as brave and as gallant an officer and gentleman as any that survive him. My inspector-general, Major Goggin, was with me during the day, carrying orders and superintending their execution, in the performance of which duties he exhibited great daring and cool, sound judgment. To Captain King and Lieutenant Tucker, aides-de-camp, and Captain Costin, signal officer; Lieutenant Campbell, of the Engineers, and Lieutenant Edwards, ordnance officer, I am indebted for their zeal and activity; their gallantry was conspicuous in the performance of their duties. Colonel Henry Coalter Cabell, chief of artillery, who had been absent, sick, joined me on the field, and remained during the rest of the engagement.

I inclose reports of brigade commanders, and call attention to their notices of individual merit.

Very respectfully,

L. McLAWS,

Major-General.

The ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

Headquarters General Longstreet.

Return of casualties in McLaws' division in the engagement on Maryland Heights, September 13, 1862.

Engaged. Killed.

Command. Officers Enlisted Officers Enlisted

men. men.

Barksdale's brigade:

13th Mississippi. 20 190

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17th Mississippi. 24 260

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2

18th Mississippi. 24 170

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21st Mississippi. 22 250

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Total. 90 870

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2

CONTINUATION:

Wounded.

Command. Officers Enlisted men. Aggregate

Barksdale's brigade:

13th Mississippi. 1 5 6

17th Mississippi.

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5 7

18th Mississippi.

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2 2

21st Mississippi.

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2 2

Total. 1 14 17


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