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Abstract from field return of Ewell's division, Brigadier General J. A. Early commanding, for December 10, 1862; camp near Mount Swamp, Va.
Present for duty
Command Officers Men Aggregate
present
General staff 6 - 7
Lawton's 161 2,228 2,825
brigade, Colonel E. N.
Atkinson: Infantry
Artillery 2 60 66
Early's brigade, 203 1,487 1,951
Colonel James A
Walker: Infantry
Artillery 10 171 194
Trimble's brigade, 119 1,543 1,880
Colonel R. F. Hoke:
Infantry
Artillery 6 96 115
Hays' brigade, 100 1,318 1,955
Brigadier General
H. T. Hays: Infantry
Artillery 5 139 155
Randolph's cavalry 3 58 61
[Ewell's escort],
Lieutenant
T. S. Turner.
Total infantry 589 6,576 8,618
Total artillery 23 466 530
Total cavalry 3 58 61
Grand total 615 7,100 9,209
Command Aggregate Aggregate Remarks
present and present and
absent absent last
report
General staff 14 9 Near Port
Royal, Va
Lawton's 4,939 2,714
brigade, Colonel
E. N. Atkinson:
Infantry
Artillery 110 66
Early's brigade, 4,121 1,853 Camp in
Colonel James A Caroline
Walker: Infantry County, Va.
Artillery 249 196
Trimble's brigade, 3,054 1,833 Near Port
Colonel R. F. Hoke: Royal, Va.
Infantry
Artillery 158 114
Hays' brigade, 3,635 1,774 Near Port
Brigadier General Royal, Va.
H. T. Hays: Infantry
Artillery 226 154
Randolph's cavalry 71 61 Camp near
[Ewell's escort], Mount Swamp
Lieutenant Va.
T. S. Turner.
Total infantry 15,763 8,183
Total artillery 743 530
Total cavalry 71 61
Grand total 16,577 8,774
No. 322. Report of Captain J. W. Latimer, Acting Chief of Artillery.CAMP NEAR PORT ROYAL, VA., December 25, 1862.
MAJOR: In obedience to orders, I would most respectfully beg leave to submit the following report of the operations of the batteries of Ewell's division in the engagements with the enemy, near Fredericksburg, on the 13th and 14th of the present month:
Early on the morning of the 13th, I was ordered by General Early to take command of the batteries of the division as acting chief of artillery, and I immediately reported to Colonel Crutchfield, chief of artillery Second Corps, for instructions. He ordered me to park the batteries in a sheltered spot behind a range of hills about half a mile behind our line of battle and there await orders. He shortly after returned and directed me to take my own battery, under command of Lieutenant [W. A.] Tanner, and Captain Brown's, under command of Lieutenant [John E.] Plater, to the relief of some batteries occupying a position near the extreme left of the line formed by the Second Corps, and to report to Brigadier-General Pender, whose brigade then occupied this position. Only five guns were required, and by direction of General Pender I relieved five of the guns at that point by the two rifles belonging to my battery, and the three rifles composing Captain Brown's. The position on which these guns were posted was not a very advantageous one, but the best that could be selected. It was a small rising in an open field, with a wood to the right, in which a portion of General A. P. Hill's division was posted, and on the left was a ditch and bank running parallel with the railroad, behind which a portion of General Hood's division was posted. In front, at the distance of about a mile, were four of the enemy's batteries, with lines of skirmishers considerably advanced in
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