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Consolidated statement of wounds, &c., of the Army of the Potomac-Continued.
NOVEMBER, 1864.
Location Second Ninth Corps Second Total
of injury, Corps Division
&c. Cavalry
Corps
Deaths in 14 ......... 3 17
field
hospital
Shell-wounds 11 1 1 13
Cannon-shot 1 4 18 23
wounds
Bullet 184 2 .......... 186
wounds
Bayonet 1 .......... .......... 1
wounds
Amputa- 30 ......... ......... 30
tions in
field
hospital
Excisions 6 .......... .......... 6
Aggregate 20,857 13,136 6,872 40,765
strength
present
Medical 112 123 24 259
officers
present
Killed (by 36 .......... .......... ..........
regimental
report)
Wounded 210 .......... .......... .........
(by
regimental
report)
Missing 48 ......... .......... .........
(by
regimental
report)
Total 294 ........... .......... ..........
DECEMBER, 1864.
Head and 1 14 15 30
face
Neck ......... 2 4 6
Shoulder 1 4 11 16
Thorax 3 6 11 20
Abdomen 5 12 6 23
Back and 3 6 14 23
hips
Perineum ......... 1 .......... 1
and
genitals
Superior 21 34 98 153
extremities
Inferior 20 23 12 55
extremities
Total 54 102 173 329
Deaths in 4 10 11 25
field
hospital
Shell ......... 27 7 34
wounded
Bullet 31 68 165 264
wounds
Bayonet ......... 1 .......... 1
wounds
Amputations 7 17 2 26
in field
hospital
Excisions ......... .......... 2 2
Aggregate 21,439 17,315 7,679 46,433
strength
present
Medical 116 107 25 248
officers
present
Remarks.
On account of the absence of reports of aggregate strength, &c., the number of killed, wounded, and missing cannot be given.
The reports of the Fifth Corps are wanting, and so are those of the Artillery Brigade, Sixth Corps.
There are no reports to obtain the number of killed, wounded, and missing (according to regimental reports) from.
ADDENDA.
SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington City, D. C., June 17, 1865.
SIR: I have the honor to report to you that the statistics of sick and wounded of the Army of the Potomac for the year 1864 are now completed and awaiting your signature. They consist of consolidations by division and corps of the monthly regimental reports of the sick and wounded for each month, and of a consolidated report the year, with a special statement of the ultimate disposal of those sent to general hospital and abstracts of the percentages of the more important diseases and classes of disease, arranged by months. Although owing to hasty and imperfect and even unskillful diagnosis on the part of regimental medical officers some minor errors may exist, still in the consolidation those have in a great measure counterbalanced each other, and in the abstract of percentages of classes of disease the probabilities of error are reduced to a minimum. Thus, while in any one regimental report the number of cases of typo-malarial fever reported is probably wrong, in the consolidated report for the year the errors have in a great meas-
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