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officers were I not to call special attention to my staff,
Captain E. J. Hale, Jr., the
Assistant Adjutant-General, and my aid,
Lieutenant Oscar Lane, under the hotest fire, frequently rode along the line, encouraging the men, watching our flanks and carrying orders, while
Captain E. T. Nicholson, the A. I. G., discharged all his duties most faithfully.
From the night of the 6th, until the afternoon of the 8th, when we commenced moving by the right flank in the direction of Spotsylvania Court-house, we were moved frequently, and made to occupy various points on the line to the left of the plank road, at all of which the men worked with untiring energy, cutting down trees, making abattis, and throwing up entrenchments.
The following is a Tabulated list of our casualties on the 5th and 6th days of May, with the names of all the officers killed, wounded and missing:
| | | killed. | wounded. | missing. | Total. | aggregate. |
| | Officers. | Men. | Officers. | Men. | Officers. | Men. | Officers. | Men. | Officers and men. |
| Seventh Regiment | | 3 | 4 | 61 | 4 | 34 | 8 | 98 | 106 |
| Eighteenth Regiment | | 7 | 3 | 33 | | 14 | 3 | 54 | 57 |
| Twenty-eighth Regiment | | 14 | 3 | 54 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 84 | 88 |
| Thirty-third Regiment | 3 | 15 | 5 | 50 | | 38 | 8 | 103 | 111 |
| Thirty-seventh Regiment | | 1 | 1 | 15 | | 36 | 1 | 52 | 53 |
| Grand Total | 3 | 40 | 16 | 213 | 5 | 138 | 24 | 391 | 415 |
Officers killed.
Colonel C. M. Avery, Thirty-third;
Lieutenant A. P. Lyon, Company B, Thirty-third;
Lieutenant J. L. Farrow, Company H, Thirty-third.
