. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . tending with Lee in the vicinity of the Chicka-hominy. Fuller, under date, May 20th, 1864, wrote to Col. Shaf-fer, Chief of Staff, that he had just seen a Richmond paper, in which theConfederates acknowledged a loss of 1,500 in killed and wounded atDrewrys Bluff. Among the list of 1,000 prisoners were Gen. Heckman,Col. Lee, 27th Massachuestts; Col. White, 55th Pennsylvania; , 55th Penn
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . tending with Lee in the vicinity of the Chicka-hominy. Fuller, under date, May 20th, 1864, wrote to Col. Shaf-fer, Chief of Staff, that he had just seen a Richmond paper, in which theConfederates acknowledged a loss of 1,500 in killed and wounded atDrewrys Bluff. Among the list of 1,000 prisoners were Gen. Heckman,Col. Lee, 27th Massachuestts; Col. White, 55th Pennsylvania; , 55th Pennsylvania; Bartholomew, 27th Massachusetts;Capt. Belger, and others of lower rank. Heckman refused to be searchedat Libby Prison, showed fight, but was threatened with the black hole andsuccumbed. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, 1861—1865 455 Col. T. L. Livermore in his ■Numbers and Losses in the Civil Warin America, iS6i-i86^, gives the details of the losses as follows: Union Army: Effectives engaged 15,800 Killed 390 Wounded 2,380 2,770 Missing 1,390 Total loss 4,160 Confederate Army : Effectives engaged 18,025 Killed and wounded 2,860 Missing 210 Total loss 3,070.
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