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- 4 -- -- 4 Tom's Brook -- -- 1 1 2 Berryville -- -- -- 1 1 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Total 24 46 17 17 104 Recapitulation--Killed and died of wounds, Shenandoah Valley: First Michigan 24 Fifth Michigan 46 Sixth Michigan 17 Seventh Michigan 17 ---- Total 104 The following table of killed and wounded in the First cavalry division in the battle of Cedar Creek is taken from the official war records:[42] First Brigade-- Officers and men killed 10 Officers and men wounded 43 ---- Officers and men killed and wounded 53 Second Brigade-- Officers and men killed 3 Officers and men wounded 16 ---- Officers and men killed and wounded 19 Reserve Brigade-- Officers and men killed 9 Officers and men wounded 27 ---- Officers and men killed and wounded 36 Total killed and wounded, First Brigade 53 Total killed and wounded Second and Reserve Brigades 55 It is thus seen that the First brigade lost in killed and wounded within two of as many as both the other brigades--almost fifty per cent of the entire losses of the division. Custer's division of two brigades lost 2 killed and 24 wounded. Powell's division of two brigades lost 1 killed, 8 wounded. In other words, while the entire of the Second and Third divisions--four brigades--lost but 35 killed and wounded, the Michigan brigade alone lost 53 in this battle. Thirty-four per cent of the entire losses killed and wounded in the cavalry corps were in this one brigade.[43] These figure
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