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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
12,546. Hood reported, February 15, 1865, that his effective strength September 20th was 27,094 infantry, 10,543 cavalry, 2,766 artillery, and that he had sent 1,600 men to Mobile and Macon; total, 43,503, counting the militia at 1,500. As the effective total turned over to him July 18th was 48,750, he said, this showed a total loss of 5,247 men. But Hardee comments on this: The casualties in my corps alone during that time considerably exceeded 7,000 in killed, wounded and captured. Hood estimated the loss under Johnston, including missing, at 22,750. The effective strength of Sherman's army was reported June 30th at 106,070; on July 31st, 91,675; on August 31st, 81,758. The Federal medical director reported that between May 1st and September 6th there were received in hospital 19,557, of whom 1,718 died in the field hospitals. The total Federal loss in the campaign has been estimated by Northern authorities at 4,423 killed, 22,822 wounded, 4,442 missing; total, 31,687.
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
enemy on his own lines. Twice he led his men forward, and finally succeeded in silencing a threatening demonstration of the enemy, claiming for his men the credit of capturing four Federal flags. During the Georgia campaign of 1864, the brigade was under almost continuous exposure to fire, with almost daily duty of a dangerous character, and took a conspicuous part in the battles of Resaca, New Hope church, and near Marietta, in all positions serving with intrepidity and devotion. On August 31st, while leading his men in the bloody assault upon the Federal fortified position at Jonesboro, General Cumming fell with a wound which terminated his military career. At the last, when General Johnston reorganized his army in North Carolina, and consolidated Cumming's brigade with two others, General Cumming was named as commander, but he was still upon crutches and unfit for duty. He afterward made his home near Rome, Ga., and engaged in farming. He was a member of the United States m