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1,041 WALKER'S DIVISION--3,500 Walker's Brigade 825 Ransom's Brigade 187 ----- 1,012 HOOD'S DIVISION--2,000. Laws' Brigade 454 Hood's Brigade 548 ----- 1,002 Evans' Brigade, 250 strong 200 B.H. ANDERSON'S DIVISION--3,500 Featherston's Brigade 304 Mahone's Brigade 76 Pryor's Brigade 182 Armistead's Brigade 35 Wright's Brigade 203 Wilcox' Brigade 221 ----- 1,021 ARTILLERY. Colonel S.D. Lee's Battalion 85 Washington Artillery 34 Cavalry, etc. etc. (estimated) 143 --- 262 Grand total 9,550 ARMY OF THE POTOMAC First Corps--Hooker 2,590 Second Corps--Sumner 5,138 Fifth Corps--Porter 109 Sixth Corps--Franklin 439 Ninth Corps--Burnside 2,349 Twelfth Corps--Mansfield 1,746 Cavalry Division, etc. 39 ------ (2,108 killed) 12,410* (* For the losses in various great battles, see Note at end of volume.) With Porter's repulse the summer campaign of 1862 was closed. Begun on the Chickahominy, within thirty miles of Richmond, it ended on the Potomac, within seventy miles of Washington; and six months of continuous fighting had brought both belligerents to the last stage of exhaustion. Falling apart like two great battleships of the older wars, The smoke of battle drifting slow a-lee. hulls rent by roundshot, and scuppers awash with blood, but with the colours still flying over shattered spars and tangled shrouds, the armies drew off from the tremendous struggle. Neither Confederates nor Federals were capable of further effort. Lee, gathering in his stragglers, left Stuart to cover his front, and fell back towards Winch
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