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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
eneral Grant stigmatized as the miserable failure of Saturday. General Meade admitted a loss of 4,400 killed, wounded and captured. Gen. Bushrod Johnson, a very conservative authority, estimated the Federal losses at between 5,000 and 6,000. On the 31st, General Meade asked for and obtained a cessation of hostilities to enable him to bury the Federal dead in front of Johnson's division. Lieutenant-General Ewell, commanding the department of Richmond, reported to the secretary of war from Chaffin's farm that Johnson's brigade of Tennesseeans are the only troops of field experience permanently stationed at this point, for the protection of the city from a coup de main. After the close of the year, Johnson's brigade was transferred to the brigade commanded by Brig.-Gen. William McComb of Heth's division, A. P. Hill's corps, which then included all Tennesseeans in the army of Northern Virginia. The regiments were the First, Maj. Felix G. Buchanan; the Seventh, Lieut.-Col. Samuel G.