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the fight, was struck by a grapeshot that cut his heart completely out. The mortality among officers was terrible. Major Post, of the Eighth Illinois, Capt. Rigby, acting Major of the Thirty-first Illinois, Lieut.-Col.White, of the same regiment, Lieut.-Col. Smith, of the Forty-eighth; Capt. Craig, company A, and Lieut. Skeats, company F, all of the Eighteenth; Capt. Wilson, company F, Eighth, Capt. Swartout, company H, Eighth Missouri; Capt. Shaw, company B, Lieut. Vore, company E, and Lieut. Boyce, all of the Eleventh Illinois; Adjt. Kirkpatrick, of the Thirtieth, Capt. Mendel, of the Seventh, Capt. Brokeck, of the Forty-ninth Illinois; Lieut. Mausker, of the Eighteenth Illinois; Adjt. Chipman and Capt. Slaymaker, of the Second Iowa, were among those who met their death on this bloody battlefield. Our entire loss is not yet known, but will reach a figure not much short of six hundred, killed and wounded. The number of men wounded is beyond all precedent, but in an unusually lar
enting voices, and Mr. Bocock was duly declared the Speaker-elect of the first Congress under the permanent government of the confederate States. On motion of Mr. Boyce, of South-Carolina, a committee of two was appointed to conduct him to the chair. The presiding officer appointed Messrs. Boyce, of South-Carolina, and Foote,Messrs. Boyce, of South-Carolina, and Foote, of Tennessee. After assuming the chair, the new Speaker delivered the following patriotic address, which was listened to with marked attention, and was received, at its conclusion, with warm applause: gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I return to you my sincere thanks for the honor you have done me in selecting me tM. Patterson,1.John McQueen, (Incomplete.)2.W. P. Miles,* Florida.3.L. M. Ayer, 1.James B. Dawkins,4.M. L. Bonham, 2.R. A. Hilton.5.James Farrow, Georgia.6.W. W. Boyce.* 1.Julian Hartridge,Tennessee. 2.Chas. S. Munnerlyn,1.J. B. Heiskill, 3.Hines Holt,2.W. G. Swann, 4.A. H. Kenan,*3.-----Tibbs, 5.D. W. Lewis,4.J. B. Garde