y Artillery; Captains
Van Eaton and Trimble and Lieutenants Deeter and Simes, 110th Ohio,
are among the many officers more or less severely wounded.
(Lieutenant Deeter, 110th Ohio, has since died.)
"Captain J. P. Dudrow, 122d Ohio, and Lieutenant R. W. Wiley, 110th
Ohio, were each slightly wounded while acting as A. D. C.'s upon
my staff."
Colonel Ebright had a premonition of his death. A few moments
before 12 M. he sought me, and coolly told me he would be killed
before the battle ended. He insisted upon telling me that he wanted
his remains and effects sent to this home in Lancaster, Ohio, and
I was asked to write his wife as to some property in the West which
he feared she did not know about. He was impatient when I tried
to remove the thought of imminent death from his mind. A few
moments later the time for another advance came, and the interview
with Colonel Ebright closed. In less than ten minutes, while he
was riding near me he fell dead from his horse, pierced in the
breast by a rifle ball. His apprehension of death was not prompted
by fear. He had been through the slaughters of the Wilderness and
Cold Harbor; had fought his regiment in the _dead angle_ of
Spotsylvania, and led it at Monocacy. It is needless to say I
complied with his request.
Incidents like this were not uncommon.
The battle was a bloody one.
The Union killed and wounded were:(14)
Killed. Wounded. Aggregate.
Officers. Officers.
| Men. | Men.
Sixth Army Corps (Wright) 18 193 111 1331 1653
Nineteenth Army Corps (Emory) 22 292 104 1450 1868
Army of W. Va. 6 98 34 649 787
Cavalry 7 61 29 275 372
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Totals 53 644 278 3705 4680
The casualties in my brigade were 4 officers and 46 men killed, 24
officers and 261 men wounded; aggregate, 335.(15) This was little
less than the total loss in the three cavalry divisions.
There is no complete list of the Confederate losses so far as I
can discover. Early reported his killed and wounded in this battle
at 2141, and missing 1818, total, 3959.(16) Doubtless many of the
missing were killed or wounded. General R. E. Rodes was killed in
a charge with his division.(16) General Godwin and Colonel Patton
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