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128 Series I Volume XXXVI-I Serial 67 - Wilderness-Cold Harbor Part I

Page 128 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N.C. Chapter XLVIII.

Return of Casualties in the Union forces, &c.- Continued.

BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, MAY 5-7, 1864-Continued.

Captured

Killed Wounded or missing.

Command. Off Men Offi Men Off Men Aggr

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ARTILLERY BRIGADE.

Colonel CHARLES H.

TOMPKINS.

Maine Light, 4th - - - - - - -

Battery (D)*

Massachusetts - - - - - - -

Light, 1st Battery

(A)*

New York Light, - - - - - - -

1st Battery*

New York Light, 3rd - - - - - - -

Battery *

4th New York 1 1 - 14 - 6

Heavy, 1st 22

Battalion

1st Rhode Island - - - - - -

Light, Battery C* -

1st Rhode Island - - - - - - -

Light, Battery E*

1st Rhode Island - - - - - - -

Light, Battery G*

5th United States, - - - - - - -

Battery M*

Total Artillery 1 1 - 14 - 6 22

Brigade.

Total Sixth Army 47 672 162 3,498 27 629 5,03

Corps. 5

CAVALRY CORPS+

Major General

PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.

ESCORT.

6th United States* - - - - - - -

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General

Alfred T. A.

TORBERT.#

Brigadier General

WESLEY MERRITT.

First Brigade.

Brigadier General

GEORGE A. CUSTER.

1st Michigan - 3 1 20 - - 24

5th Michigan. - 3 2 11 - - 16

6th Michigan. - 3 2 11 - 4 20

7th Michigan. - - - 1 - 1 2

Total First - 9 5 43 - 5 62

Brigade.

Second Brigade.

Colonel THOMAS C.

DEVIN.

4th New York@ - - - - - - -

6th New York - 1 - 11 - 1 13

9th New York - 5 2 18 - 3 28

17th Pennsylvania - 1 1 12 - - 14

Total Second - 7 3 41 - 4 55

Brigade

Reserve Brigade.

Brigadier General

WESLEY MERRITT

Colonel ALFRED

GIBBS.

19th New York (1st - 20 1 35 4 31 91

Dragoons)

6th Pennsylvania - 3 3 25 2 1 34

1st United States - 8 6 28 - 3 45

2nd United States - 2 1 20 - 2 25

5th United States 1 - - 2 - - 3

Total Reserve 1 33 11 110 6 37 198

Brigade.

Total First 1 49 19 194 6 46 315

Division.

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*Loss, if any, not of record.

+The casualties of this command on May 8 are also embraced in this table.

#Relinquished command, on account of sickness, May 7.

@Detached guarding trains and prisoners.

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