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HANCOCK'S DIVISION.

effective strength. The Union Armies generally outnumbered the Confederates, but the disparity was not so great as the official figures always implied.

Although the reports of the Union commanders seldom mentioned the number taken into action by each regiment, General Hancock was thoughtful enough in his re|K>rt for Freder-icksburg to specify the number present on the field in each regiment of his division. As the loss in Hancock's Division, in its memorable assault on Marye's Heights, was one of the severest of the war, it is given here in full. In addition to the official figures, the number of killed, as increased by those who died of their wounds, is also given—the number having been ascertained by examining the muster-out rolls of each regiment.

Having the exact number engaged, these casualties are of interest as showing the outside limit of loss to which troops are subjected in action. There are on record some higher per centages in cases of individual regiments in certain engagements, but no greater percentage in any division.

HANCOCK'S DIVISION. FREDERICKSBURO, DF.C. 13, 1S62.

Nearly all the missing ones were killed or wounded men, who M\ in front of the wall at Marye's Heights. Most of them belong with the killed, and were buried by the enemy. The number engaged may appear small ; but it should IK- remembered that this division had already lost 3,290 men on the Peninsula and at Antietam.

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