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

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CAVALRY DIVISION.

Brigadier General AUGUST V. KAUTZ.

First Brigade.

Colonel SIMON H. MIX.

1st District of Columbia, Lieutenant Colonel Everton J. Conger.

3rd New York, Lieutenant Colonel George W. Lewis

Second Brigade.

Colonel SAMUEL P. SPEAR.

5th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Kleinz.

11th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel George Stetzel.

Artillery.

New York Light, 8th Battery (section), Lieutenant Peter Morton.

UNATTACHED TROOPS.

1st New York Mounted Rifles, Colonel Benjamin F. Onderdonk.

1st U. S. Colored Cavalry, Major Harvey W. Brown.

2nd U. S. Colored Cavalry, Colonel George W. Cole.

13th Company Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (pontoniers), Captain John Pickering, jr.


Numbers 2. Return of Casualties in the Union forces, commanded by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, from the Rapidan to the James River, May-June, 1864.

[Compiled from nominal lists of casualties returns, &c.]

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

Captured

Killed Wounded or missing.

Command. Offi Men. Offi Men Offi Men. Aggr

cers cers cers egat

e

GENERAL

HEADQUARTERS

ESCORT.

5th U. S. Cavalry, - - - - - - -

Companies B, F, and

K+

ARMY OF THE

POTOMAC.

Major General

GEORGE G. MEADE.

PROVOST GUARD.

Brigadier General

MARSENA R. PATRICK.

1st Massachusetts - - - - - - -

Cavalry, Companies

C and D

80th New York - - - - - - -

Infantry (20th

Militia)

3rd Pennsylvania - - - - - - -

Cavalry.

68th Pennsylvania - - - - - - -

Infantry

114th Pennsylvania - - - - - - -

Infantry.

Total provost - - - - - - -

guard+

ENGINEER TROOPS.

5Oth New York - - - 1 - - 1

Battalion United - - - - - - -

States+

Total engineers. - - - 1 - - 1

GUARDS AND

ORDERLIES

Independent Company - - - - - - -

Oneida (New York)

Cavalry.+

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*Embracing all combats under the various names of the Wilderness, Parker's Store, Craig's Meeting House, Brock Road, Todd's Tavern, and the Furnaces.

+Loss, if any, not of record.

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