Re: Re-issue?
According to the May 20, 1863 report of Lieut. Col. Briscoe G. Baldwin, Lee's Chief of Ordnance:
SIR: I have the honor to report the following as the principal captures in the recent engagements near Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville:
Artillery.--Five 12-pounder Napoleons, seven 3-inch rifles, one 10-pounder Parrott, nine caissons, four rear parts of caissons, three battery wagons, two forges, 1,500 rounds artillery ammunition, a large lot of artillery harness, and a large lot of wheels, axles, ammunition chests, &c.
Infantry.--Nineteen thousand five hundred muskets and rifles (29,500 collected, 10,000 admitted dropped by our men, leaving 19,500 captured), 8,000 cartridge-boxes, 4,000 cap-pouches, 11,500 knapsacks, 300,000 rounds infantry ammunition.
I have carefully confined myself to what has been reported as collected and counted. This, of course, is considerably less than the amount actually captured, as a number of unarmed men supplied themselves with arms, accouterments, &c., and the army generally helped themselves from the cartridge-boxes of the enemy. Also every day small lots of muskets and rifles are brought-in, and without doubt quite a number of arms, &c., are retained in regimental ordnance wagons for future contingencies and not reported.
A large quantity of lead has been and is now being collected from the battle-fields.
Respectfully submitted.
BRISCOE G. BALDWIN,
Lieut. Col. and Chief of Ordnance, Army of Northern Virginia.
The above is from the ORs, Volume XXV, Part 1, page 818-819.
Eric
According to the May 20, 1863 report of Lieut. Col. Briscoe G. Baldwin, Lee's Chief of Ordnance:
SIR: I have the honor to report the following as the principal captures in the recent engagements near Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville:
Artillery.--Five 12-pounder Napoleons, seven 3-inch rifles, one 10-pounder
Infantry.--Nineteen thousand five hundred muskets and rifles (29,500 collected, 10,000 admitted dropped by our men, leaving 19,500 captured), 8,000 cartridge-boxes, 4,000 cap-pouches, 11,500 knapsacks, 300,000 rounds infantry ammunition.
I have carefully confined myself to what has been reported as collected and counted. This, of course, is considerably less than the amount actually captured, as a number of unarmed men supplied themselves with arms, accouterments, &c., and the army generally helped themselves from the cartridge-boxes of the enemy. Also every day small lots of muskets and rifles are brought-in, and without doubt quite a number of arms, &c., are retained in regimental ordnance wagons for future contingencies and not reported.
A large quantity of lead has been and is now being collected from the battle-fields.
Respectfully submitted.
BRISCOE G. BALDWIN,
Lieut. Col. and Chief of Ordnance, Army of Northern Virginia.
The above is from the ORs, Volume XXV, Part 1, page 818-819.
Eric
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