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Bledsoe's Missouri Battery

The Charleston [S.C.] Mercury1 Nov 1864, p. 1, c. 5, printed a casualty lost for Bledsoe's Battery, which will undoubtedly be of interest. I do not know if such a lost was ever published in a Missouri paper. The article reads:

"CAUSALTIES IN THE ARTILLERY.

List of killed, wounded and missing in BLEDSOE's 1st Missouri Battery, MARTIN's Battalion Artillery, from May to September 31 [sic], 1864, Army of Tennessee:

May 14 -- Wounded: 1st Lieutenant C. [or G] W. Higgins, Resaca, chest slight, recovered

May 15 -- Wounded: 2d Lieutenant S. F. Lytton, Resaca, face slight, recovered.

May 14 -- Wounded: Corporal Joe Hershman, Resaca, face severe, recovered; Privates F. M. Booth, Resaca, shoulder severe, returned to duty; G. B. Poole, Resaca, left arm severe, returned to duty; Jas. Bolies, Resaca, head slight, returned to duty; Ben Harrison, Resaca, hand slight, returned to duty; Jno. Hart, Resaca, shoulder slight, returned to duty; J. Cottingham, Resaca, back severely, returned to duty. Killed: Private N. N. Brockman, Resaca.

May 15 -- Wounded: Privates Hez St. Myers, Resaca, thigh severe, returned to duty; John St. Myers, Resaca head slight; returned to duty; Jno. Butler, Resaca, shoulder severely, returned to duty; Jno. Rounds, Resaca, head slight, returned to duty; Corporal T. C. Young, Resaca, hand slight, returned to duty; Private Jno. McClanahan, Resaca, leg slight, returned to duty; Quartermaster Sergeant J. R. Chowning, Resaca, neck slight, returned to duty; Privates G. B. Gates, Resaca, leg slight, returned to duy; W. H. Martin, Resaca, slight, returned to duty.

June 3 -- Wounded: Private L. C. Ferrill, New Hope Church, left arm severe, returned to duty.

June 20 -- Killed: Private Jno. T. Page, Kennesaw Mountain.

June 25 -- Killed: Private E. O. Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain.

August 31 -- Wounded: Sergeant Thos. A. Rucker, Jonesboro, shoulder slight, returned to duty.

September 1 -- Killed: Private F. M. Booth, Jonesboro [Note he had been previously wounded at Resaca]; Wounded: Privates Edw. Lynch, Jonesboro, shoulder slight, returned to duty; Sampson Wood, Jonesboro, foot severe.

September 3d [did he mean this to be Septgember 30?]-- Wounded: Privates J. A. Truett, Lovejoy's Station, hand severe; C. Q. Overfelt, Lovejoy's Station, hand slight.

July 22 -- Missing: Artificer Jack Wilson, Atlanta.

Killed 4

Wounded 24

Missing 1

Total 29"

A second part of the same article gave the sacualties for Howell's [GA] Battery, also in Martin's Artillery Battalion, and also Ferguson's [Regular] Battery, of the same artillery battalion.

I hope this is of interest to some one.

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