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igade, Third Division, Third and Sixth Army Corps, 1863-65_ Killed Wounded Total Officers Officers Officers Aggregate | En. Men.| En. Men. | En. Men. 110th Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 10 102 18 443 28 545 573 122d Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 7 92 17 432 24 524 548 126th Ohio Infantry . . . . . . 9 111 10 379 19 490 509 6th Maryland Infantry . . . . . 7 103 21 213 28 316 344 138th Pennsylvania Infantry . . 5 120 16 223 21 343 364 67th Pennsylvania Infantry . . 2 90 3 130 5 220 224 9th N. Y. Heavy Artillery . . . 14 204 16 590 30 794 824 -- --- --- ---- --- ---- ---- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 812 101 2410 155 3232 3387 APPENDIX D "Springfield, Ohio, October 22, 1888. "General Horatio G. Wright, Washington, D. C. "_My Dear Friend_,--After expressing to you that high regard I have always had for you, and also expressing the hope that your health is good, also that of your family, I have the honor to call your attention to the following matter, of some interest to you no doubt. "General R. S. Ewell, of date of December 20, 1865, in the form of a report addressed to General R. E. Lee, to be found in Vol. XIII., _Southern Historical Papers_, page 247, in speaking of the battle of Sailor's Creek, after having concluded his general report of this battle says: 'I was informed at General Wright's headquarters, whither I was carried after my capture, that 30,000 men were engaged with us when we surrendered, viz., two infantry corps and Custer's and Merritt's divisions of cavalry, the whole under command of General Sheridan.' "On page 257, same book, in a note appended to a report of the same battle, by General G. W. C. Lee, he says: 'I was told, after my capture, that the enemy had two corps of infantry and three divisions of cavalry opposed to us at Sailor's Creek.' "Now, as I know you commanded the infantry engaged on the Union side in that battle from first to last, and that no infantry troops save of your corps there fought under you, that only a portion of the Third Division (in which I was then serving) was present, and General Frank Wheaton's division of the Sixth Corps was the only other infantry division there, though I am not quite sure that his en
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