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

Page 347 Chapter XLVIII. RAPIDAN TO THE JAMES.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, November 8, 1864.

GENERAL: I have the honor to forward the following report of guns captured from the enemy by the Second Army Corps from May 3 to November 1, 1864:

In what Date. No. Remarks.

action.

Spotsylvania May 12 20 Turned in to chief of

artillery, Army of the

Potomac.

Deep Bottom July 27 4 Turned in to ordnance

department, City Point.

Boydton Plank Oct. 27 1 Captured and abandoned on

Road withdrawal from the field, 1

a. m., November 28.

Deep Bottom, August 1 One of four 8-inch howitzers.


Numbers 2. 15 This gun was secured and

turned in by General Mott.

Total --- 26

Respectfully submitted.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,
Major-General of Volunteers.

Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS,

Asst. Adjt. General, Army of the Potomac.

Three 8-inch howitzers were captured from the enemy on the 14th of August by the Tenth Army Corps, Major-General Birney commanding, which was then my command.

W. S. H.

Report of guns lost in action by the Second Army Corps, from May 3 to November 1, 1864.

In what Date. Numbe Remarks.

action. rs

Po River May 10 1 From Arnold's battery

(A), 1st Rhode Island, 3-

inch ordnance.

Jerusalem June 22 4 McKnight's (12th New

Plank Road York) battery, light 12-

pounders (four 3-inch

lost).

Reams' Station August 9 Four 3-inch ordnance

25 Sleeper's, (10th

Massachusetts) battery;

four light 12-pounders,

Brown's battery (A and

B), 1st Rhode Island

Light Artillery; one

light 12-pounder,

McKnight's (12th New

York) battery.

Total 14

Respectfully submitted.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Major-General of Vols., Commanding Second Corps.

One gun was lost by Sheridan's cavalry while under my command at Deep Bottom, north side of James River, July 28, 1864.

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Major-General, Commanding.


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