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877 Series I Volume XLII-I Serial 87 - Richmond-Fort Fisher Part I

Page 877 Chapter LIV. THE RICHMOND CAMPAIGN.


Numbers 359. Partial return of casualties in the First Army Corps from August 1 to December 31.*

[Complied from nominal lists.]

Killed Wounded Missing.

Command. Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men Aggregate

Bratton's

Brigade

Staff - - 1 - - - 1

1st South 1 9 11 72 1 16 110

Carolina

2nd South - 11 9 77 - 11 108

Carolina

Rifles

5th South - 6 4 55 - - 65

Carolina

6th South 3 16 16 139 - 16 190

Carolina

Palmetto 1 17 10 126 - 5 159

Sharpshooters

Total 5 59 51 469 1 48 633

Bratton's

Brigade

Law's Brigade

4th Alabama 1 6 1 28 1 1 38

15th Alabama - 10 6 86 - 2 104

44th Alabama - 12 2 27 1 8 59

47th Alabama 2 5 2 25 - 3 37

48th Alabama 1 7 - 20 1 1 30

Total Law's 4 40 11 186 3 15 259

Brigade

Anderson's

Brigade

7th Georgia - 4 10 37 1 4 56

8th Georgia 3 9 7 49 1 13 82

9th Georgia 1 6 4 42 - 10 63

11th Georgia 2 11 6 29 - 3 51

59th Georgia - 10 13 60 - 2 85

Total 6 40 40 217 2 32 337

Anderson's

Brigade

Benning's

Brigade

2nd Georgia 1 3 1 9 2 9 25

15th Georgia 3 11 4 27 1 4 50

17th Georgia - 8 2 28 - 7 45

20th Georgia 1 10 1 20 3 19 54

Total 5 32 8 84 6 39 174

Benning's

Brigade

[For operations of Thirty-eighth Virginia Infantry, Barton's brigade, June 17-November, 1864, see report of Colonel George K. Griggs, Vol. XL, Part I, p. 763.]


Numbers 360. Return of casualties in Field's division October 27.

List of casualties in the engagement on the Williamsburg road on October 27, 1864

Killed Wounded Missing. Total

Command. Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men Officers Men Aggregate

Field's

division:

Law's - 1 - 5 - 2 - 8 8

brigade

Gregg's - 4 - 15 - - - 19 19

brigade

Bratton's - 1 - 2 - - - 3 3

brigade

Benning's - - 1 4 - - 1 4 5

brigade

Anderson's 1 1 - 5 - 3 1 9 10

brigade

Total 1 7 1 31 - 5 2 43 45

Field's

division

Gary's - 2 - 3 - 3 - 8 8

cavalry

brigade

Artillery - - 1 8 - 2 1 10 11

Grand total 1 9 2 42 - 10 3 61 64

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*Four brigades only reported.

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