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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 12: Boonsboro or South Mountain, and Harper's Ferry (search)
e mountain. Meanwhile, there had occurred the mishap already referred to, which gave to McClellan an opportunity rarely presented to a general. An official copy of Lee's order No. 191, addressed to D. H. Hill, fell into McClellan's hands on Sept. 13 soon after his arrival at Frederick. The incident occurred from our unsettled organization. D. H. Hill's division had been attached to Jackson's command upon its crossing the Potomac. No order should have issued from Lee's office for Hill. . Lt. Rouse, on being spoken to about it, laughed at the idea of observing his parole. The casualties of the campaign are shown in the following table: — Casualties, siege of Harper's Ferry, Sept. 13-15, 1862 KILLEDWOUNDEDMISSINGTOTAL Sept. 13. McLaws's Div., Md. Hgts.35178213 Sept. 14. McLaws's Div., Crampton's Gap62208479749 Sept. 14. Mahone's Brig., Crampton's Gap892127227 Sept. 14-15. A. P. Hill's Div., Bol. Hgts.36669 Sept. 14-15. Walker's Div., Loudon145 Aggregate109548
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 13: Sharpsburg or Antietam (search)
's divisions, 14,000 men, were within a day's march and arrived, on the 18th, in time for use either in defeat or victory. Field of Sharpsburg Lee's force should have been about 55,000 men; but we have already referred to the enormous amount of straggling, caused by poor discipline, lack of shoes, and hard marches, on the insufficient diet of green corn and apples. That the effects were not unknown to Lee is shown by the following extracts from his letters to President Davis. On Sept. 13, from Hagerstown, he wrote: O. R. 28, 606. — Our great embarrassment is the reduction of our ranks by straggling, which it seems impossible to prevent with our present regimental officers. Our ranks are very much diminished,—I fear from a third to one-half of our original numbers,— though I have reason to hope our casualties in battle will not exceed 5000 men. His losses at Second Manassas were actually 9112. After the battle of Sharpsburg, on Sept. 21, he wrote more fully, a<