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Spotsylvania Courthouse. 197

Orange Artillery (Fry's), with iricn of other batteries; Staunton Artillery (Garber's), with men of other bat- teries 8

Guns from either Braxton or Nelson 6

29 Federal Army.

Warren's Fifth Corps, on the Federal left, composed of: Four Divisions — 24,423 xA.pril 30th, and 19,321 June ist. In- fantry not in action, but 26 guns were, as a diversion in front of Hill's Corps.

Hancock's Second Corps, next to Fifth and to the right of it, composed of:

Four Divisions — 27,007 April 30th, and 28,327 June ist. Bar- low's and Gibbons' Divisions in the assault, with 166 guns in action, (ist New Hampshire, ist Rhode Island, 4th U. S., and 1st New York.)

Wright's Sixth Corps, next to Second and to its right, com- posed of:

Three Divisions — 23,165 April 30th, and 20,390 June 1st. Getty's and Russell's Divisions in the assault, assisted by Han- cock's guns.

Burnside's Ninth Corps, next to Sixth and on the extreme right, composed of four divisions — 19,840 April 30th, and 18,147 June 1st. Potter's and Crittenden's Divisions in the assault, with sixteen guns in action. (2nd Maine, 14th Massachusetts, 7th Maine, and 24th New York.)

The above numbers are from the official returns of these dates and Gibbons' report (10,734) is for his division on May i6th. No numbers in the field returns are given of the Confederate army about this period, and of the Federal army, with the ex- ception of Gibbons' Division of May i6th, are for April 30th and Jvme ist, 1864.