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VI)%000 or 9,000, when the rebels run.-ether part of our forces |^s^uiden® at Edwards’ Depot^Jbeffreeli thei j Black River, and they hkid to e there was chance it was, Hovey’s Division was terribly-cut up; it lost 1,306 men killed'and wounded. Col. Slack’s brigade, on the left, lost more in proportion to the number engaged, thanGeneral;McGiitnUf’ brigade ^!id. The^iQth-llnd. lost 20 men killed' aftd 65 wounded.¥The 11th Ind* lost 160 men killed and wounded; among.their wounded was Col. Macauley, as good an officer as there is in the service. There was one‘Lieutenant (Farris, Co. F) killed in .our Regiment; Lieut. Andrews, Co. A, was mortally wounded, and Lieutenants McCormic, Co. II, and Cassel, Co. B, were slightly wounded. None of our company were killed and only three wounded: John Iloover, severely in the foot, but he is getting along very well—it will not have to be amputated; Wm. Cook was wounded in the left arm by a buckshot, and Thomas Scott in the righfcside by a rifle ball; neither of the (two are much hurt, both -are now with the , I company.H „Qur Iqss in this fight is between 2,000 “ and 2,500 ^n. killed and wounded. The^ rebels lo3t full as many, besides the prisoners that were taken. The rebels murdered e an Orderly Sergeant and live men of the r 11 Ik Ind. that they captured here; theyy 1 were seen captured, and . yesterday they y\ were found four miles from here all dead, c! shot through the breast.1 We leave here at 12 o’clock for BlackRiver. Grant’s army is reported, to be across; and from all accounts Vicksburg will be ours in a few daj3, if not now.— The rebels seem to be completely disheartened in this part of their condfederacy; if things are going on as well other places as they are here, I think the Southern Confederacy is about played out.No more at present, but remain as ever, Your brother, A. G. Sinks,Co. K, 4Gth Ind. Vols.- ‘Or!-mgas.I».-r‘*whedinv con be strlt; at: stil the ' ] Or] wo lt;metrigkii:thehe;if•e*r-irftj-etm29tuitioW€«outa]+ •*wre;dethstheuisuhiofatmT
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Rochester Chronicle
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1863
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