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

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MAY 6.

Killed. Wounded.

Regiment. Officers. Men. Officers. Men.

General and staff --- --- 1 ---

11th Pennsylvania --- 5 7 72

Volunteers

97th New York 1 13 4 26

Volunteers

12th Massachusetts --- 5 --- 15

Volunteers

83rd New York 2 17 1 79

Volunteers

88th Pennsylvania --- --- --- 1

Volunteers

Total 3 40 13 193

Missing. Total.

Regiment. Officers Men. Officers Men. Aggreg

ate.

General and staff --- --- 1 --- 1

11th Pennsylvania 1 21 8 98 106

Volunteers

97th New York --- 14 5 53 58

Volunteers

12th Massachusetts --- 4 --- 24 24

Volunteers

83rd New York --- 15 3 111 114

Volunteers

88th Pennsylvania --- --- --- 1 1

Volunteers

Total 1 54 17 287 304

MAY 7

12th Massachusetts Volunteers -- 3 -- 3

83rd New York Volunteers -- -- -- 1

Total -- 3 -- 4

12th Massachusetts Volunteers -- 3 -- 9 9

83rd New York Volunteers -- -- -- 1 1

Total -- 3 -- 10 10

MAY 8

General and staff -- -- -- --

11th Pennsylvania Volunteers 1 4 -- 35

97th New York Volunteers -- 4 1 39

12th Massachusetts Volunteers -- 1 2 19

83rd New York Volunteers 1 8 4 49

88th Pennsylvania Volunteers -- 1 2 41

Total 2 18 9 183

General and staff 1 -- 1 -- 1

11th Pennsylvania Volunteers -- 3 1 42 43

97th New York Volunteers -- 3 1 46 47

12th Massachusetts Volunteers -- 1 2 21 23

83rd New York Volunteers -- 8 5 65 70

88th Pennsylvania Volunteers -- 3 2 45 47

Total 1 18 12 219 231

RECAPITULATION, MAY 5 TO 8.

General and staff -- -- 1 --

11th Pennsylvania Volunteers 1 10 7 154

97th New York Volunteers 1 22 5 96

12th Massachusetts Volunteers 1 17 3 73

83rd New York Volunteers 3 25 5 133

88th Pennsylvania Volunteers -- 1 2 42

Total 6 75 23 498

General and staff 1 -- 2 -- 2

11th Pennsylvania Volunteers 2 26 10 190 200

97th New York Volunteers -- 19 6 137 143

12th Massachusetts Volunteers -- 12 4 102 106

83rd New York Volunteers -- 23 8 181 189

88th Pennsylvania Volunteers -- 3 2 46 48

Total 3 83 32 656 688

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

R. COULTER,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

Captain S. M. MORGAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Second Division.


No. 122. Report of Colonel Richard N. Bowerman, Fourth Maryland Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations May 8-23.

HDQRS. FOURTH MARYLAND VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, Near Petersburg, Va., August 10, 1864.

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor, in obedience to orders, to make the following report of the part taken by the brigade while under my command, during the period of the campaign embraced between the 8th and 23rd of May last:

At noon May 8 assumed the command, devolving upon me by the disabling of the commander, Colonel Andrew W. Denison, Eight Regiment Maryland Volunteers, by a wound received in battle that


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