My wounds were very painful during the night, my lips and
face are terribly swollen and my jaws are in shocking condition, but I'm
thankful it is no worse. My side and chest are very lame, but I hope it is
nothing more serious than a bruise or contusion. Lieut. Hill has had his leg
amputated, but I don't think he can live, the stump is so short — poor, brave,
gallant, natty Hill with the most of life before him.
Sheridan's loss was 5018 of which 4300 were killed and
wounded. Early's loss was about the same. About 850 of his wounded fell into
our hands. Our division lost 600 in killed and wounded and seventeen are
missing, more than both of the other two divisions of our corps together. Our
regiment lost twelve killed and forty-six wounded. Sheridan captured two
thousand prisoners, five pieces of artillery and nine battle flags. Generals
Rhodes and Godwin of Kershaw's Division were killed, and General York lost an
arm. I saw Major Dillingham at a distance as he lay stricken, when I entered
the hospital grounds yesterday. He was no shirk in battle but valiant. We feel
like sparing him least of any, and had not looked for it, therefore it is a
great shock. Only a moment before the order to advance he was talking with
several officers near me and was in the best of spirits which, it occurred to
me at the time, greatly contrasted with my feeling for I never dreaded more to
go into battle. I was greatly but silently depressed.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 209-10
