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which was simply a wing of Grant, the loss within the same time was killed, wounded and captured 6,215.

Summarized, Grant's losses for thirty days were as follows: Killed 8,254, wounded 42,245, captured 10,645; total, 61,144. (See Battles and Leaders ," Vol. IV, pp. 184, 185.;

The battle of Cold Harbor was fought on June 3, 1864. We give below the monthly returns of the effectives of Grant's and Lee's armies for each month thereafter UD to December 31, 1864 :

Grant. Lee.

June 30 107,419 54,751

July 31.... 77.321 57,079

August 31 58,923 34.677

September 30 7 6 -775 35>88

October 31 85,046 47<3O7

November 30 86,723 56,424

December 31 110,364 66,533

(" Battles and Leaders," Vol. 3, pp. 593, 594.)

From June 3d, not including Cold Harbor, Grant's loss was, to December 31, 1864, 47,554. {"Battles and Leaders" Vol. 4. p.

593-)

If grant's effectives were, on December 3ist, 110,364 and he had sustained between June 3d and that date a loss of 47,554, he must have had an army, between those dates, of 157,918. If to this we add the losses between the Rappahannock between May 5th to and including Cold Harbor on June 3d, 61,244. the sum total of Grant's army from May 5th to December 3ist was 219,162. In other words, Grant, after a campaign from May 5th to December 3ist, had an army of 219,162 soldiers, and having on hand December 31 only 1 10,364, he must then have lost during that time 108,798.

Since the days of the coalition against Napoleon no grander army ever appeared than that controlled by Grant in his advance to Rich- mond. Major-General Webb, United States army, in his "Through the Wilderness" ("Battles and Leaders" Vol. Ill, p. 152), says: " Grant's army, 118,000 men, properly distributed for battle, would have covered a front of twenty-one miles, two ranks deep, with one- third of them held in reserve, while Lee with 62,000 men similarly disposed would cover only twelve miles. Grant had a train which, he states in his ' Memoirs,' would have reached from the Rapidan to Richmond, or sixty -five miles."