. My Little War Experience with Historical Sketches and Memorabilia . tre pierced. Losses ill Battle. Immense Losses oe the Second Corps. The BestFighting Corps in the Army. Its Extraor-dinary Achievements. Confederate Descrip-tion OF the Battle of Antietam. ComparisonOF Battle Losses with those of Europe. Im-mense Superiority of the Am?:rican Shattered Rifle. Taken to HagerstownON A Hay Wagon. The York Soldiers Hos-pital. THE loss in killed and wounded of the SecondCorps in this battle amounted to more thandouble that of any other corps engaged. Of15,000 effectives it lost 883 kill
. My Little War Experience with Historical Sketches and Memorabilia . tre pierced. Losses ill Battle. Immense Losses oe the Second Corps. The BestFighting Corps in the Army. Its Extraor-dinary Achievements. Confederate Descrip-tion OF the Battle of Antietam. ComparisonOF Battle Losses with those of Europe. Im-mense Superiority of the Am?:rican Shattered Rifle. Taken to HagerstownON A Hay Wagon. The York Soldiers Hos-pital. THE loss in killed and wounded of the SecondCorps in this battle amounted to more thandouble that of any other corps engaged. Of15,000 effectives it lost 883 killed, 3,859 wounded and336 missing; total 5,138. The entire loss of the army-was 2,010 killed, 9,416 wounded and 1,043 missing, atotal of 12,469. The Second Corps was known as the Fighting Corps of the Army, and for that reasonwas selected for the advance in most of the engagementsof the Army of the Potomac. Gen. Nelson A. Miles,who had a command in the corps, in his PersonalRecollections, says of it: It inscribed a greater number of engagements upon its banners than. From Battles andLeaders of the Civil War. ARTILLERY IN ACTION, (p 33i
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