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also twenty-three out of the twenty-seven officers. Townsend's Honors of the Empire State, p. 317. Phisterer, in his New York in the War of the Rebellion, puts the number of officers killed or wounded at twenty, and the number of privates at two hundred and thirteen, but reports also ninety-seven privates as missing, thus confirming the original statement (p. 429). Brig.-Gen. Rufus Saxton, United States Volunteers (a Massachusetts officer), commanded about this time the defence of Harper's Ferry (May 26-30) in a manner that subsequently won him a medal of honor. In the battle at Hanover Court House May 27, the 9th and 22d Mass., with a section of the 3d Battery, were in action, the 5th Battery being also present but not active. The 9th Mass. distinguished itself by a charge, showing in advance the qualities so signally tested later. The losses in this engagement were not, however, heavy. The battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines That battle ought really never to have been fo