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George K. Putnam, Number One man on the—— piece, was wounded in the knee as we were leaving the guns, was taken prisoner and kept a week without having the wound dressed. He was then exchanged, but died at Annapolis, November 21st.

Henry L. Ewell, driver on the——piece, was wounded in the shoulder, and underwent a surgical operation, but pyemia setting in, death resulted in the hospital at Washington, November 2d.

John T. Goodwin and Samuel H. Foster both received flesh wounds, as already stated, from the effects of which they soon recovered and rejoined the Company in a few months.

Benjamin G. Hooper received a flesh wound in the forearm, the bullet first having passed through the breast of his blouse, and through several letters in the breast-pocket.

William H. Starkweather was shot above the hip, the bullet passing in under the backbone. He was a cannoneer on the Second piece, and returned to duty in a few months.

Corp. Burnham C. Clark was struck by a bullet while leaving the field, which passed through his pantaloons, abrading the skin of the thigh.

George W. Stetson was knocked down by a spent shell or part of one, and by this means was captured.

As Aug. 26th wore on without bringing tidings of the other twenty, we were at length forced to believe them killed or captives. A thrilling account of the fortunes of nineteen of them after the loss of the Battery is given by William E. Endicott, one of their number, in the Appendix. Concerning the three whom he mentions as sent to Salisbury, N. C., viz., Timothy G. Redfield, Francis L. Macomber and Charles W. Green, the first was admitted to the

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