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C. G. Hospital
Charleston, Va., Sept. 15th 1862
Sir!
It is with great pleasure that I report to you
the sanitary condition of your Army.
After a most toilsome march, over mountain range
and valley, a distance of 169 miles, we have no case of
essential fever developed either in Camp and hospital,
and but one or two cases of Rubela and Parotidia,
occuring sporadically.
During the march, we fought the federal forces
first at Fayette C. H., with the following causallities – 16
men killed upon the field, one Lieutenant and one
Corporal in that number, and 32 wounded; 4 of this
number, I may say mortally; 1 killed at the skirmish
at Cotton Hill and 3 wounded, one of this number –
mortally. "No one hurt" at Montgomery's, except from
accidental discharge of a gun in crossing the river,
wounding one man. Six killed at Charleston and
eight slightly wounded, making in all 23 killed and
45 wounded.
The enemy's killed at Fayetteville, [was?]
65, that we know of, their wounded could not be
