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Page 196 OPERATIONS IN SE. VA. AND N. C. Chapter XLVIII.

[Inclosure Numbers 2.]

Statement showing the number of guns captured from the enemy; also the number of guns lost during the operations of the Army of the Potomac from May 4, 1864, to November 1, 1864. Thirty-two guns were captured and 25 guns lost, as follows:

Date. Corps. Numbers Numbers lost.

captured.

May 5 Fifth.. ... 2

10 Second.. ... 1

11 Cavalry.. 2 ...

12 Second.. 20 ...

June 17 Ninth.. 4 ...

22 Second.. ... 4

29 Cavalry.. ... 8

July 28 Second.. 4 ...

28 Cavalry.. ... 1

Aug. 15 Second.. 1 ...

25 ..do.. ... 9

Sept. 30 Fifth.. 1 ...

Total.. 32 25

Date. Corps. Where. Remarks.

May 5 Fifth.. Wilderness.. Winslow's

battery (D),

1st New York

Light

Artillery.

10 Second.. South of Po Brown's

River.. battery (B),

1st Rhode

Island Light

Artillery.

11 Cavalry.. Yellow Tavern.

12 Second.. Spotsylvania

Court-House..

June 17 Ninth.. Petersburg..

22 Second.. ..do.. McKnight's

battery, 12th

New York.

29 Cavalry.. Reams' Maynadier's

Station.. battery (K),

1st United

States, 4;

Fitzhugh's (C

and E), 4th

United States,

4.

July 28 Second.. Jones' Neck..

28 Cavalry.. Deep Bottom.. Dennison's

battery (A),

2nd United

States.

Aug. 15 Second.. ....

25 ..do.. Reams' McKnight's

Station.. battery, 12th

New York, 1;

Sleeper's

battery, 10th

Massachusetts,

4.

Sept. 30 Fifth.. Poplar Grove

Church..

Total..

[Inclosure Numbers 3.]

Statement showing the number of colors captured from the enemy during the operations of the Army of the Potomac from May 4, 1864, to November 1, 1864.

Captured by -

Cavalry Corps............................................... 3

Second Corps................................................ 40

Fifth Corps................................................. 10

Sixth Corps................................................. 3

Ninth Corps................................................. 11

Number of colors captured................................... 67

NOTE.- The foregoing statement is made up from the reports of captured colors that have been received. Two divisions of the Cavalry Corps and Sixth Corps, having been transferred from this army, it is not certainly known that all colors captured by these troops prior to their transfer have been reported.

[Inclosure No.t 4.]

Statement showing the number of prisoners captured by the Army of the Potomac during the operations from May 4, 1864, to November 1, 1864.

From May 1 to May 12..................................... 7,078

From May 12 to July 31................................... 6,506 From July 31 to August 31................................ 573

From August 31 to September 30........................... 78

From September 30 to October 31.......................... 1,138

Total................................................... 15,373


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