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Casualties.

Killed Wounded

Command Offic Men Offic Men Remarks

ers ers

3rd Louisiana --- 6 2 19 Major [D.]

Pierson and

Lieutenant

[W. P.]

Renwick,

Company B,

wounded.

36th Mississippi --- --- --- 3

37th Mississippi --- --- --- 3 Slightly

wounded.

38th Mississippi --- 1 --- 3

43rd Mississippi --- 6 --- 5 Six buried by

explosion of

mine.

7th Mississippi --- --- --- ---

Battalion

21st and 23rd --- 4 --- 7 The 4 killed

[22nd] Louisiana and 6 of the

wounded are

of Captain

[J. C.]

Theard's

company,

Twenty-THIRD

Louisiana

Regiment.

5th Missouri --- 1 --- 7

6th Missouri 2 1 2 20 Colonel Erwin

and

Lieutenant W.

S. Lipscomb,

Company A,

killed;

Captain John

D. Parsons

and

Lieutenant

James R.

Harper,

Company I,

wounded.

Appeal Battery --- --- 1 --- Lieutenant

Scott

slightly

wounded.

Emanuel's battery --- --- --- 1

Total 2 19 5 68

Total killed and wounded in Hebert's brigade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Total killed and wounded in FIFTH and Sixth Missouri Regiments . . 33

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LOUIS HEBERT,

Brigadier-General.

Major S. CROOM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS HEBERT'S BRIGADE,
July 1, 1863.

MAJOR": I have the honor report that about 1. 30 p. m. the enemy sprang another and a larger mine under the main redan of the work on the left of the Jackson road, this time destroying the parapet of the redan. Our interior work is uninjured. The enemy attempted no immediate charge after the blast, but opened a brisk artillery fire. The change occasioned exposes a portion of our troops heretofore protected, and there is necessity of immediate work, both to strengthen our interior line and give more protection to exposed points. Lieutenant Blessing, assistant engineer on this portion of the line, was wounded a few hours since I. Earnestly ask that some other officer be immediately sent to replace him.

I am, major, respectfully, your obedient servant,

LOUIS HEBERT,

Brigadier-General.

Major. S. CROOM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Indorsement.]


HEADQUARTERS DIVISION,
July 1, 1863.

Respectfully forwarded for the information of the lieutenant-general, and with the request that an engineer officer be detailed at once in the place of Lieutenant Blessing.

JNumber H. FORNEY,

Major-General.


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