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igade, Third
Division, Third and Sixth Army Corps, 1863-65_
Killed Wounded Total
Officers Officers Officers Aggregate
| En. Men.| En. Men. | En. Men.
110th Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 10 102 18 443 28 545 573
122d Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 7 92 17 432 24 524 548
126th Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 9 111 10 379 19 490 509
6th Maryland Infantry . . . . . 7 103 21 213 28 316 344
138th Pennsylvania Infantry . . 5 120 16 223 21 343 364
67th Pennsylvania Infantry . . 2 90 3 130 5 220 224
9th N. Y. Heavy Artillery . . . 14 204 16 590 30 794 824
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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 812 101 2410 155 3232 3387
APPENDIX D
"Springfield, Ohio, October 22, 1888.
"General Horatio G. Wright, Washington, D. C.
"_My Dear Friend_,--After expressing to you that high regard I have
always had for you, and also expressing the hope that your health
is good, also that of your family, I have the honor to call your
attention to the following matter, of some interest to you no doubt.
"General R. S. Ewell, of date of December 20, 1865, in the form of
a report addressed to General R. E. Lee, to be found in Vol. XIII.,
_Southern Historical Papers_, page 247, in speaking of the battle
of Sailor's Creek, after having concluded his general report of
this battle says:
'I was informed at General Wright's headquarters, whither I was
carried after my capture, that 30,000 men were engaged with us when
we surrendered, viz., two infantry corps and Custer's and Merritt's
divisions of cavalry, the whole under command of General Sheridan.'
"On page 257, same book, in a note appended to a report of the same
battle, by General G. W. C. Lee, he says:
'I was told, after my capture, that the enemy had two corps of
infantry and three divisions of cavalry opposed to us at Sailor's
Creek.'
"Now, as I know you commanded the infantry engaged on the Union
side in that battle from first to last, and that no infantry troops
save of your corps there fought under you, that only a portion of
the Third Division (in which I was then serving) was present, and
General Frank Wheaton's division of the Sixth Corps was the only
other infantry division there, though I am not quite sure that his
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