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718 Series I Volume XXVII-II Serial 44 - Gettysburg Campaign Part II

Page 718 N. C., VA., W. VA., MD., PA., ETC. Chapter XXXIX.

[Inclosure No. 7.]

List of personal escort who, as bearers of written or oral dispatches, particularly distinguished themselves. J. Thompson Quarles, chief of field telegraph. Sergt. S. A. Nelson, Company B, Fourth Virginia Cavalry. Benjamin F. Weller, Company E, First Virginia Cavalry. George N. Woodbridge, Company E, Fourth Virginia Cavalry. Robert W. Goode, Company G, First Virginia Cavalry. Frank H. Deane, Company E, Fourth Virginia Cavalry. A. H. Ellis, Company H, Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry. E. D. Cole, Company H, Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry. Theo. S. Garnett, Company -, Ninth Virginia Cavalry. W. T. Thompson, Company G, Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry. Also Privates McComb, Pearson, Grant, Lowry, House, Walton, Harris, Davis, Fewell, Jones, and Smith.

[Inclosure No. 8.]

Recapitulation of list of Casualties* among officers of the Cavalry Division Army of Northern Virginia, in the battle of Fleetwood, June 9, 1863.

Command Killed Wounded TOTAL

General officers --- 1 1

1st South Carolina Cavalry 1 1 2

2nd South Carolina Cavalry 1 1 2

1st North Carolina Cavalry --- 1 1

2nd North Carolina Cavalry 1 4 5

3rd Virginia Cavalry --- 1 1

6th Virginia Cavalry 2 2 4

7th Virginia Cavalry --- 1 1

9th Virginia Cavalry 1 --- 1

10th Virginia Cavalry --- 1 1

11th Virginia Cavalry 1 2 3

12th Virginia Cavalry --- 6 6

13th Virginia Cavalry --- 2 2

TOTAL 7 23 30

[Inclosure No. 9.]

Recapitulation of losses in the Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia, during the campaign in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and subsequent to the battle of Fleetwood, June 9, 1863.

Killed Wounded Missing

Commands Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men Total

Division --- --- 1 --- --- --- 1

staff

2nd North 1 5 5 25 4 20 60

Carolina+

Total in 17 136 79 644 24 495 1,

Cavalry 395

Division

TOTAL 18 141 85 669 28 515 1,

456

The total of casualties will be swelled by the addition of the report of Jenkins' brigade, which has been accidentally misplaced, but which will be forwarded as soon as it can be obtained.

J. E. B. STUART,

Major-General, Commanding.

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*Nominal list on file.

+Not embraced in the foregoing report.

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