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two of them are represented by the survivors of Fairfield district. The lis>t is as follows :

REGIMENT.

BATTLE.

Present in Action.

Killed and Wounded.

J

c

V

U

First Texas

Antietam

226

1 86

87

Twenty-first Georgia

Manassas

242

184

76

Eighth Tennessee

Stone River

AAA

106

60

Seventeenth South Carolina

Manassas

284

1 80

6?

Twenty- third South Carolina

Manassas

225

I4Q

66

Fourteenth Georgia

Mechanicsville

CIA

J7C

6s

Sixteenth Mississippi

228

144

63

Fifteenth Virginia

Antietam

128

7c

S8

Eighteenth Georgia

Antietam

176

IOI

57

Tenth Georgia

Antietam

147

87

56

Twelfth Tennessee

Stone River

2Q2

l64

s6

Sixteenth Tennessee

Stone River

177

2O7

S6

Third Alabama

Malvern Hill

JC/l

2OO

S6

Seventh North Carolina

Seven Days

Asn

2<t7

S6

Eighteenth North Carolina

Seven Days

106

224

S6

First South Carolina Rifles

Gaines" Mill

C77

?o6

56

Fourth North Carolina

Fair Oaks

678

160

CA

Twelfth South Carolina

Manassas ... ....

27O

146

54.

Fourth Texas

2CC

I O7

5^

Twenty-seventh Tennessee

Chaplin Hills

2IO

112

C-2

First South Carolina

Manassas

28*.

J5I

Cl

Forty-ninth Virginia

Fair Oaks

424

224

C2

Twelfth Alabama

Fair Oaks

4O8

215

C2

Seventh South Carolina

Antietam

268

I4O

52

Seventh Texas

Raymond

306

is8

C2

Eleventh Alabama

Glendale

357

181

tT

If this table is correct, and, no doubt, it is, it shows that Antietam, or Sharpsburg, was, on our side at least, the hardest fought field of the war, for of the twenty-six instances of greatest losses, seven of them occurred in that battle ; but it shows, also, that for South Carolina troops the Second Manassas was the severest battle. Of the six in- stances of greatest losses among troops from this State, four of them were at Second Manassas, to wit : The Seventeenth South Carolina, which lost 67 per cent, of those carried into action; the Twenty- third, which lost 66 per cent.; the Twelfth, which lost 54 per cent.; and the First, which lost 53 per cent. The general average of these four regiments being 60 per cent, lost of those engaged. Upon another occasion I have shown that in this battle South Carolina lost