Weather still pleasant. Company drill two hours a day. Our
brigade came out in review and was inspected by General Smith. A statement was
read to us by the assistant adjutant general of our brigade, stating our loss
at Richmond, and also that of the enemy. Our loss was seven thousand killed and
two thousand taken prisoners, while that of the enemy was forty thousand in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 266
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