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Lieutenant-Colonel Sewell, Major Ramsey, and Captain Woolsey (wounded), Fifth New Jersey Volunteers; Colonel Mott (wounded), Major Gilkyson (wounded), Lieutenant-Colonel Burling, and Captains Baker and Crawford, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers; Colonel Revere, Seventh New Jersey Volunteers; Lieutenant-Colonel Ward (wounded), and Acting Major Tuite (killed), Eighth New Jersey Volunteers; Lieutenant Le Grand Benedict, acting assistant adjutant-general, and Lieutenant George Gould, aide-de-camp.

Great credit and praise are due to Chaplain Moore, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, for his unceasing attentions to our wounded on the field, and also to each and ever surgeon of the brigade for their faithfulness on this as well as on many other occasions.

I am proud of my brigade, and esteem it an honor of no mean order to command such a body of men and soldiers, who, not only by their gallantry on the field of battle, but also by their good conduct and strict devotion to duty in camp, have reflected so much credit upon themselves, their noble division, and the States which they so faithfully represent.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOS. B. CARR,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

Captain JOS. DICKINSON, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Casualties in the Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps, in the engagements of August 27, 29, and 30, 1862.*

Killed. Wounded.

Command. Officers. Enlisted men. Officers. Enlisted

men.

5th New Jersey 2 4 2 33

6th New Jersey

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18 2 45

7th New Jersey 1 1

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19

8th New Jersey 1 10 1 49

2nd New York

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11 6 55

115th Pennsylvania

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4 3 14

Total 4 48 14 215

Missing.

Command. Officers. Enlisted Aggregate.

men.

5th New Jersey 1 10 52

6th New Jersey 1 38 104

7th New Jersey 1 10 32

8th New Jersey

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61

2nd New York

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9 81

115th Pennsylvania

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6 27

Total 3 73 357


Numbers 81. Reports of Lieutenant Colonel William J. Sewell, Fifth New Jersey Infantry, of engagement at Kettle Run and battles of Groveton and Bull Run.


HEADQUARTERS FIFTH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS,
Camp near Alexandria, Va., September 5, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the regiment under my command in the action at Broad Run August 27:

The regiment, after marching a distance of 8 miles, was assigned a

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*But see revised statement, p. 258.

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