| Official. | Major-General Sumner, L. Kip, A. D. C. and A. A. G. W. D. Sedgwick, A. A G. |
Headquarters 2d Division, 2d Corps,
Edward’s Ferry, Va., June 26, 1863.
General Order No. 105.
The 15th and 19th Massachusetts Volunteers, for marching to-day in the best and most compact order, and with the least straggling from their ranks, are excused from all picket duty and outside details for four days.
By command of
| Brigadier General Gibbons. |
Of the thirty-seven commissioned officers who left Massachusetts with the regiment in 1861 only one returned,—Col. Edmund Rice, who went out as captain and came home colonel commanding the regiment.
Fourteen officers and two hundred fifty men were either killed or died of wounds received in action, and four hundred forty-nine were discharged for disability, occasioned by wounds or disease contracted in the service.