Relative Strength at Second Manassas.
By Colonel Wm. Allan, late Chief of Ordnance, Second Corps, A. N. V.
Rev. Dr. Jones:
My Dear Sir—In my letter of March 2d, in regard to Federal and Confederate strength and losses at Cedar Run, as published, there is a typographical error on page 183, line twenty from the top. The figures 1,161 at the beginning of that line should be 1,661.
CONFEDERATE STRENGTH.
Deducting Jackson's loss of 1,314 at Cedar Run from his total strength of 23,823 we have left for his force of all arms at the beginning of the second Manassas campaign about 22,500.
What forces did General Lee add to this from Richmond? Colonel Walter Taylor (Four Years with General Lee, page 60) says: "General Lee . . . took with him the divisions of Longstreet, D. R. Jones, Hood and Anderson, leaving in front of Richmond the divisions of D. H. Hill and McLaws, and two brigades under J. G. Walker." The return of these troops for July 20th exists in the Archive Office at Washington, and is the nearest one extant to the date of the battle.
But in addition to these commands of infantry, General Lee took "two brigades (Drayton's and Evans'), recently arrived from South Corolina." The whole infantry force was organized, I believe, as follows:
| LONGSTREET'S DIVISION. | |
| Regts. | |
| Kemper's Brigade—First, Seventh, Eleventh, Seventeenth and Twenty-fourth Virginia regiments... | 5 |
| Jenkins' Brigade—First, Fifth and Sixth South Carolina regiments, Second South Carolina rifles, Palmetto Sharpshooters and Fourth South Carolina battalion... | 5½ |
| Pickett's (or Garnett's) Brigade—Eighth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-eighth and Fifty-sixth Virginia regiments... | 5 |
| Wilcox's Brigade—Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Alabama regiments... | 4 |
| Pryor's Brigade—Fifth and Eighth Florida, Third Virginia and Fourteenth Alabama regiments... | 4 |
| Featherstone's Brigade—Twelfth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth Mississippi regiments, and Second Mississippi battalion... | 3½ |
