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fifty-seven men* while in our brigade at Manassas they averaged only three hundred. f Still greater was the disparity in the regiments of Jackson's and EwelFs division which had been in the Valley campaign. Early' s regiments in the Manassas campaign averaged but two hundred and fifty ; others had not more than one hundred and fifty ; % It is prob- able, therefore, that of the forty-two regiments from Virginia, the seventeen which had been with Jackson in the Valley did not average two hundred. So, too, some of the regiments which had been in the Peninsula, under Johnson, were greatly reduced.

But there is another comparison by which the disproportionate loss of South Carolina troops in this battle can be more accurately shown. By Colonel Allan's estimate, as we have seen, Jackson's corps of infantry was 22,500 strong, and he puts Longstreet's at 26, 768. So that Lee had 49, 268 infantry present. The official list of casualties at Manassas, makes a total of 7,244;)] but these include forty-nine casualties in the artillery, which, for our present purpose, must be excluded,^ leaving 7,195 killed and wounded in the infantry. To these we must add the losses in our two regiments (Twelfth and Rifles) omitted in the official list, z. e., two hundred and sixty-one, and the losses in the brigades of Wilcox, Featherston and Pry or, three hundred and thirty, making our total loss in the infantry, 7,786. Ot the 49,268 infantry which Lee had at Manassas, South Carolina fur- nished about 6,000, as follows: Gregg's brigade, 1,500,** Jenkins, (estimate) 1,500, ft Evans, 2,2OO,J| Hampton Legion (estimate) 300,


 * Southern Historical Papers, volume VIII, page 180.

f History Gregg's Brigade, page 37.

J Southern Historical Papers, volume VIII, page 180. \ Ibid, 219.


 * Reports Army Northern Virginia, volume I, page 52.

\ I have omitted the artillery from my calculation as I have not sufficient data as to the State to which the batteries belonged, and there are but few reports, if any, from officers of batteries.


 * History Gregg's Brigade, J. F. J. Caldwell.

ft The strength of this brigade is not given in the reports; but in the lists of casualties published in the Mercury the numbers carried into action are given : First South Carolina volunteers (Hagood's), 324 ; Pal- metto sharpshooters, 350; Fifth South Carolina volunteers, 220; Sixth South Carolina volunteers, 350. The numbers of the Second Rifles and Fourth battalion South Carolina volunteers are not given in their list of casualties in this battle; but in the lists, of casualties at Frasier's farm, 3oth of June, the numbers carried into action are given as, Second Rifles, 275, Fourth battalion, 70. Supposing their strength to have been the same at Manassas, this brigade would have had present 1,589.

\\ Reports A. N. V., volume II, page 290. \\ General T. M. Logan.