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lhe following were the wounded in our corapfiny-, ln ‘heannaJ.Khtl.v; Bo ling K iriilgr,elfKhtljF; Flre^ Wray, .to; Bolirer Smith. do; P;lm Wilson, do: MB Coffleld, do; Jessie Loti, in th» rim.,Walter Norwood, slightly,; I'etc Meadow^ alig-Utly and taken prisoner, hut we recan'u ed b mmany Yankees with him; Oscar Patrick slightly y a bomb on the leg; Dan Uots and Me, liter, slightly. These were nil of the casualties in ourCP X,iBlue8 5 'l!h ,lni1 ‘heir Colonelkil he first fire, and their Lh-ut. Col. it is tboui ht woanded. Csipt. Hutchinson was killed. This battle is admitted to bo the most bloody conflictof the war. Vie had about 00,000 men engaged onthi p-rt of the field, he-idcs those fighting on theother side of the Chickahotniny. V e ca| ired onthis part, the field 15.000 small arms, 20 | iecea offine cannon, vast quantities ol ammunition, comtnis-sury store* swords, pistol* and everythin!? oertaining toa defeated n ray. We captured in thisen^e-mjnt two Brigadier 0ens. and any quantity of otherofficers of different grades. Our army, which I am ofopinion greatly outnumbers McClelland, are nursuinghim (Mcl*.)»nd his retreating and demoralizedI army. Ii is believed that he and his army will becaptured—as they are mrrounded on all hides Wehave now captured be*ween 8,000' and 10 000 prison*ers, arobu unices, c., n great qutntitie*. I wentthroaah the thickest of the flAbt and came throudi ( mt^out a scratch. b! • t.he.',',y affer we hai the 0n account ofinability to keep up whh the regiment—I wss takenwith a h gh fever and vomiting, caused from exhaus tion ai d over heat and the want of water We suffered mu h or watei; when we had drank all the water in ont canteens, we would cut the c nteens from off the dead Yankees as we passed to quench our
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Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 29, 1862
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