1,041
WALKER'S DIVISION--3,500
Walker's Brigade 825
Ransom's Brigade 187
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1,012
HOOD'S DIVISION--2,000.
Laws' Brigade 454
Hood's Brigade 548
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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
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1,021
ARTILLERY.
Colonel S.D. Lee's Battalion 85
Washington Artillery 34
Cavalry, etc. etc. (estimated) 143
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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
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(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
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