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Consolidated statement of wounds in the Army of the Potomac-Continued.

APRIL, 1865-Continued.

Location of Second Fifth Sixth Ninth Total

injury Corps Corps Corps Corps

Perineum 3 1 15 4 43

and

genitals

Superior 397 196 532 109 1,223

extremities

Inferior 177 58 222 87 544

extremities

Total 922 397 1,175 229 2,821

Deaths in 22 10 27 9 68

field

hospitals

Shell 82 2 89 34 207

wounds

Cannon 3 - 5 1 9

wounds

Bullet 813 387 962 282 2,444

wounds

Bayonet - 1 1 - 2

wounds

Amputations 56 26 88 16 186

in field

hospitals

Excisions 5 1 12 2 20

in field

hospitals

Aggregate 21,598 14,313 21,079 - 56,990

strength

Medical 105 62 84 - 251

officers

Killed a 180 79 230 - 498

Wounded a 1,186 505 1,268 - 2,959

Missing a 318 63 198 - 579

Total 1,693 647 1,696 - 4,036

killed,

wounded,

and missing

a According to regimental reports.

REMARKS.-The Second and Fifth Corps have taken up the wounded of March 30 and 31 on this report. The Ninth Corps is represented only by the Third Division.

[Inclosure No. 3.] HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, Medical Director's Office, June 10, 1865.

COLONEL: I have the honor respectfully to render the following report of the operations of the medical and hospital department and ambulance service of the Second Cavalry Division from January 1, 1865, to March 28, 1865:

On January 1, 1865, the Second Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, under command of Bvt. Major General D. McM. Gregg, was composed of the following troops:

First Brigade, Brigadier General H. E. Davies: First Pennsylvania, First New Jersey, First Massachusetts, Tenth New York, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry, and Horse Battery A, Second U. S. Artillery; aggregate, 2,568. Second Brigade, Bvt. Brigadier General J. I. Gregg: Second, Fourth, Eighth, Thirteenth, and Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and Horse Battery I, Second U. S. Artillery; aggregate strength, 2,802. Third Brigade, Bvt. Brigadier General C. H. Smith: First Maine, Twenty-first Pennsylvania, Second New York Mounted Rifles, Sixth Ohio, and Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry; aggregate strength, 2,982.

There was also a cavalry depot and dismounted camp for all recruits and convalescents from Northern hospitals, and dismounted men from camps. They remained here until they could be mounted and equipped. There were several vacancies of regimental medical officers, but more than one present to each regiment. The surgeons-in-chief were as follows:

First Brigade, Surg. C. L. George, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry; Second Brigade, Surg. F. Le Moyne, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry; in charge of hospital, Act. Staff Surg. G. W. Lovejoy.


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