ny at Long and Jones' Bridges,
reached the James River at Charles City Court-House. Sheridan,
meantime, with two cavalry divisions, was ordered to Gordonsville
to destroy the Central Railroad, and to communicate, if practicable,
with Hunter's expedition, then in progress in the Shenandoah Valley.
Sheridan fought a successful battle at Trevilian Station, June
11th, overthrowing Hampton and Fitz Lee's cavalry divisions.
The Union Army soon crossed the James.
Excluding captured and missing, the casualties in the Union Army
during the operations mentioned, shown by revised lists, are given
in the summary table following:(21)
Killed. Wounded. Aggregate.
Officers. Men. Officers. Men.
Wilderness, May 5-7 143 2013 569 11,468 14,193
Spotsylvania Court-House, May 8-21
174 2551 672 12,744 16,141
North Anna, Pamunkey, and Totopotomoy, May 21-June 1
41 550 159 2,575 3,325
Cold Harbor, Bethesda Church, etc., June 2-15
143 1702 433 8,644 10,922
Todd's Tavern to James River (Cavalry, Sheridan), May 9-24
7 57 16 321 401
Trevilian raid (Cavalry, Sheridan), June 7-24
14 136 43 695 888
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Totals 522 7009 1892 36,447 45,870.(22)
There do not seem to exist any lists, at all complete, by which a
summary of casualties of killed and wounded in the Confederate Army
during the Wilderness campaign can be made up, but, barring Cold
Harbor, they were, doubtless, approximately as great as in the
Union Army. During the campaign the Union Army captured 22 field
guns and lost 3. It captured at least 67 colors. And reports show
the Army of the Potomac, from May 1 to 12, 1864, took 7078 prisoners,
and from May 12 to July 31, 1864, 6506; total, 13,584.
The Union reports show the "captured and missing [Union], May 4th
to June 24th," to be 8966.(23)
The killed and wounded in the Sixth Army Corps, May 5 to June 15,
1864, were 10,614; in the Third Division thereof, 1993, and in the
Second Brigade of this division, 1246.
( 1) _War Records_, vol. xxxiii., p. 827.
( 2) _War Records_, vol. xxxiii., p. 664.
( 3) _Ibid_., p. 827-9.
( 4) _Ibid_., p. 1017.
( 5) _War Rec
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