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 APPENDIX. 513 NOTE VII. Table showing the Numbers of the 2d Division out ON Picket or skirmishing as Picket-supports, and COMPUTING approximately THE NUMBER OF COL- LECTED Troops remaining available for the Second Period of the Fight, Pickets (each one company) furnished in ordinary conrse by the 2d Division on the 5th of November,. . 480 Two additional companies of the 55th understood to liave been sent out skirmishing to the line of the pickets from the same regiment,*. . . . .108 One wing of the 30th (not the one with which Colonel Maul- everer acted in person) sent out skirmishing in support of the pickets,. .... 204 Total of picket force and skirmishers supporting them, ...... 792 Total strength of 2d Division, .... 2956 Deduct pickets and skirmishers as above,. . . 792 Total strength of troops not on picket, or sent out as skirmishers,. . . . .2164 Deduct 2d Division troops placed to guard the left rear — viz., wing of 47th, 286 ; and wing of 49th, 245,. . 530 Total of collected troops which, if no casualties had occurred in the mean time, would have re- mained to encounter the attack on Penne- father's centre and right,. . . 1634 This force was reduced by the effects of the fighting to perhaps about 1400 ; and one half of what thus remained was generally spoken of as a mere ' remnant,' with a streiigtli estimated at only 'about 100.' In these circumstances, I have ventured to iufer that the extra draft made from the regiment comprised two companies. VOL. VI. 2 K
 * The main body of the 55th, after the reductions which it sustained,