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854 Series I Volume XXV-I Serial 39 - Chancellorsville Part I

Page 854 N. VA., W. VA., MD., AND PA. Chapter XXXVII.

Return of Casualties in Anderson's Division at the battle of Chancellorsville.

[Compiled from nominal lists of casualties, returns, &c.]

Killed Wounded.

Command. Officers Enlisted men Officers Enlisted

Wilcox's brigade:

8th Alabama 1 6 1 44

9th Alabama - 23 2 87

10th Alabama 1 16 3 52

11th Alabama 1 14 6 70

14th Alabama 2 8 9 98

Total 5 67 21 351

Mahone's brigade:

6th Virginia 1 7 1 32

12th Virginia - 5 2 29

16th Virginia - 1 1 16

41st Virginia 2 4 3 20

61st Virginia - 4 5 25

Total 3 21 12 122

Posey's brigade:

12th Mississippi - 3 4 34

16th Mississippi - 22 6 51

19th Mississippi - 6 2 37

48th Mississippi - 10 2 48

Total - 41 14 170

Wright's brigade:

3rd Georgia - 10 7 122

22nd Georgia 1 4 1 53

48th Georgia 2 5 4 61

2nd Georgia Battalion - 3 - 23

Total 3 22 12 259

Perry's brigade:

2nd Florida 1 2 5 27

5th Florida 1 7 1 19

8th Florida - 10 3 33

Total 2 19 9 79

Grand total 13 170 68 981

Captured

or missing.

Command. Officers Enlisted men Aggregate Officers

killed.

Wilcox's brigade:

8th Alabama - 4 56 Captain

Robert A.

McCrary.

9th Alabama - 1 113

10th Alabama 1 27 100 Lieutenant

M. J. T. Harper.

11th Alabama - 24 115 Lieutenant

O. L.

Strudwick.

14th Alabama 1 33 151 Lieuts.

H. M. Cox and

M. L. Bankston.

Total 2 89 535

Mahone's brigade:

6th Virginia 1 5 47

12th Virginia 2 48 86

16th Virginia - - 18

41st Virginia - - 29

61st Virginia - 3 37

Total 3 56 217

Posey's brigade:

12th Mississippi 1 22 64

16th Mississippi 2 23 104

19th Mississippi 1 5 51

48th Mississippi 1 10 71

Total 5 60 290

Wright's brigade:

3rd Georgia - - 139

22nd Georgia - - 59 Captain F. M.

Heath

48th Georgia - - 72 Captain W. N.

Kendrick and

Lieutenant

W. A. Spier.

22nd Georgia - - 26

Battalion

Total - - 296

Perry's brigade:

2nd Florida - - 35 Lieutenant

W. B. Butler;

Captain

W. H. H.

Rodgers. died

of wounds.

5th Florida - - 28 Liuet. John G.

Ranlerson.

8th Florida - - 46

Total - - 109

Grand total 10 205 1,447


Numbers 326. Reports of Brigadier General Cadmus M. Wilcox, C. S. Army,commanding brigade.


HEADQUARTERS WILCOX'S BRIGADE,
Near Salem Church, Va., May 10, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part borne by my bridge in the recent engagements with the enemy in this vicinity, commencing on the 1st and ending on the 5th instant:

On the 29th ultimo, orders were received to be ready to move at a moment's notice, it being known that the enemy were advancing in hevy force from the direction of Chancellorsville.

The following day artillery was heard at intervals in that vicinity, and on the next (the 1st instant) the brigade moved under orders up the


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