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declared, the reach of successful pursuit.
With what cavalry Ashby could collect, he moved by way of Berryville to Harper's Ferry, halting at Halltown, while Steuart, passing the advance of the Confederate infantry an hour after it had halted, proceeded as far as Hainesville beyond Martinsburg, contenting himself with picking up a good many prisoners.1
It remains to consider our losses in this retreat,--first of men, second of material
Banks, in his official report of losses on the 24th and 25th, gives as killed, 38; wounded, 155; missing, 711, -total, 904.
He thinks “the number killed and wounded may be larger than this, while many missing may return,” but that “the aggregate will not be changed.”
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Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported the loss in the Second Massachusetts Regiment on the 25th, as 7 killed and 28 wounded; among the latter were included two commissioned officers, Captain Mudge and Second Lieutenant Crowninshield.
He also reported 131 missing, “though many are coming in daily, who having been compelled to halt from exhaustion, after recovery found their way in by different routes.”
On the 24th, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrews reported his total loss to have been 3 killed and 17 wounded. Banks also reported that there were 189 men of Williams's division sick in hospital at Strasburg, and that 125 of them were left in the hospital at Winchester, and 64 not removed from Strasburg,--left there
1 See history of the Campaign of General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, by William Allan, p. 115.
2 To our own force, as enumerated, should be added five companies of Maryland cavalry that were stationed at Winchester. The loss of the Confederates is given in Jackson's report as 68 killed, 329 wounded, and 3 missing. But to these Allan thinks about 40 should be added, to include Ashby's loss, and that in the Louisiana troops at Front Royal, and in the First Maryland. See Jackson's “Valley Campaign,” p. 118, note.
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
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