quently requiring them to be under the severest musketry firing. The former was bruised by the explosion of a shell near him on the second day and thrown from his horse by it.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. M. Wilcox,
Two men, one of the Eighth and the other of the Tenth Alabama regiment, were wounded on the 12th instant near Saint James College, Maryland, thus making my loss seven hundred and seventy-nine while beyond the Potomac.
Confederate Losses During the War—Correspondence between Dr. Joseph Jones and General Samuel Cooper.
The following correspondence explains itself. Dr. Joseph Jones, the first Secretary of the Southern Historical Society, is distinguished for his pains-taking research as well as for his high scientific attainments.
General Cooper, the able and efficient Adjutant and Inspector-General of the Confederacy, was, of course, very high authority on the questions discussed in this correspondence. It is a sad reflection that the General was not spared until the more liberal policy, which now prevails at the War Department, would have allowed him to inspect the records of his old office. Those records will be thoroughly sifted, and the story they tell given to the world; but in the meantime the carefully collated figures of this correspondence will be of interest and value.
General S. Cooper, Alexandria, Virginia:
Dear Sir—You will please excuse the liberty which I take in trespassing upon your valuable time.
I have recently been preparing for the Southern Historical Society a paper upon the losses of the Confederate army from battle, wounds and disease during the civil war of 1861-5.
