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Crutchfield 's artillery Brigade .

The charge of the Crater .

The Signal service Corps. [ Sunday news , Charleston, S. C. , May 2 , 1897 .]

Hon. James Murray Mason , of Mason & Slidell fame.

Drewry's Bluff .

A horror of the war. [from the Richmond, Va. , times, March 14 , 1897 .]

The Cumberland Grays, Company D , Twenty-first Virginia Infantry .

The private soldier of the C. S. Army , and as Exemplified by the Representation from North Carolina .

General Raleigh E. Colston , C. S. Army .

Ode to the Confederate soldiers' monument in Oakdale Cemetery , Wilmington, N. C.

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Second Corps,	14,612
Fifth Corps,	16,529
Ninth Corps,	10,700
Tenth Corps,	13,362
Eighteenth Corps,	11,333
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Total,	66,536
Add to these the losses on the 30th, as reported in the War Records, Series 1, Volume XI, Part 1, page 167,	4,400
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Making a total of	70,936

This army held the inner and outer line of the Confederate works from a few minutes after the explosion until about 8:45 o'clock A. M. with only artillery between it and the coveted city of Petersburg.

Richmond, VA. 1897.

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