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ticulars as to gallant conduct of individuals, I beg leave to refer you to the reports of commanders of brigades, hereunto attached. Colonel Sherman speaks highly of Colonel Coon, of Wisconsin, and Lieutenants Piper and McQuesten, all on his personal staff.

From my own personal staff I received in every instance prompt and gallant assistance, and my thanks are due to Captains Baird and Merrill, Lieutenants Houston, Abbot, Upton, O'Rorke, and Audenried for gallant conduct and the prompt and valuable assistance they rendered me. Lieutenants Abbot and Upton were both wounded and each had a horse killed under him, as also had Lieutenant O'Rorke.

I inclose herewith a table of casualties, showing our losses at Bull Run.

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant,

DANIEL TYLER,

Brigadier-General, Commanding Division.

Brigadier-General McDOWELL,

Commanding Department of Northeastern Virginia.

[Inclosure.]

Return of casualties in the First Division, Army [Union] of Northeastern Virginia, at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.

Killed Wounded Missing

Command Officers Enlisted Officers Enlisted Officers Enlisted Aggregate

men men men

First - - - 8 1 8 17

Connecticut

Second - 2 1 4 1 8 16

Connecticut

Third - 4 1 12 - 18 35

Connecticut

Second Maine - 13 2 *22 3 115 155

Total First - 19 4 46 5 149 223

Brigade

Second New 3 16 - 15 - +1 35

York

First Ohio - 1 - 4 1 6 12

Second Ohio - 1 - 2 - 8 11

Total Second 3 18 - 21 1 15 58

Brigade

Thirteenth New - 11 - 27 - 20 58

York

Sixty-ninth 1 37 1 58 3 92 192

New York

Seventy-ninth 2 30 7 44 8 107 198

New York

Second - 24 7 58 2 21 112

Wisconsin

Second United - - - 4 - ++11 15

States

Artillery,

Company E

Third United - 4 - 2 - - 6

States

Artillery,

Company E

Total Third 3 106 15 193 13 251 581

Brigade

Second United 1 - - - - - -

States

Artillery,

Company M

Grand total 7 143 19 260 19 415

862

Notes on original return:

*"Eighteen others slightly."

+Colonel Tompkins reports 140 others missing, without giving names. As this regiment did not cross Bull Run, they must have been accurately informed as to their killed and wounded. This, taken in connection with the fact that three of the officers are reported as deserters, known to be in New York City, leads to the belief that, their officers having set the example, the men were not slow to follow it.

++ This number reported as "killed and missing."

HDQRS.1ST DIV. DEP'T NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA, Washington City, July 27, 1861.

GENERAL: I closed my division report of the battle at Bull Run at the time we left for Centreville. It is due to me and to my division that


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