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First Lieutenants .- William C. Dine, resigned February, 1863. Julian H. Fitch, September 4, 1863. J. Adams, sec- ond lieutenant, October 16, 1862; first lieutenant, March 19, 1864. J. F. Saunders, second lieutenant, November 19, 1862; first lieutenant, March 19, 1864.
Sergeants .- Albert S. Morgan, discharged for disability, March 28, 1862. Tipton W. Clary, discharged for disability, December, 1863. Clark S. Thompson, discharged, September 25, 1864, on expiration term of service. John S. Shedd, died March 14, 1864, at Hamilton. Joseph W. Myers, promoted to first sergeant. Hiram Shedd, April 1, 1863.
Corporals .- William Walters, deserted. David S. Pegan, seriously wounded at Chickamauga. Hezekiah Campbell, discharged for disability, March 28, 1862. William B. Long. Charley S. Wilson. John Spencer, seriously wounded at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Samuel Russell.
Died .- Corporal D. S. Pegan, at Ringgold, May 7, 1864. C. Willson.
Company E.
Captains .- William H. C. Steele, mustered as captain of Company E, May 16, 1864; in command Company G, irom May 16, 1864. David M. Gans, died at Eaton, Ohio, Novem- ber 25, 1863.
First Lieutenant .- Edward Cottingham, captured at Chick- amiauga, September 20, 1863.
Second Lieutenant .- Levi P. Thompson, wounded Septem- ber 19, 1863, and taken prisoner; paroled October 4th.
First, Sergeant .- William B. Mikesell.
Sergeants .- Moses Thompson. Benjamin F. Kemp. Will- iam S. Ware. John W. Dunkins, died of wounds received at Chickamauga, October 10, 1803.
Corporals .- Andrew I. Stakbake, wounded at Mission Ridge. Philip Bladner. Charles C. Gavin. William Wil- sou, captured September 17, 1863. John W. Cottingh, killed at Chickamauga. William H. Bowles, died of wounds re- ceived at Chickamauga, October 24, 1863. Charles H. Thomp- son, died at Chattanooga, September 27, 1863, of wound re- ceivea at battle of Chattanooga. Joseph Larrison.
Company F.
Captain .- Oliver H. Parshall, promoted from first ser- geant of Company A, September 5, 1861; killed at Chicka- mauga.
First, Lieutenants .- Joseph C. Thomas, resigned November 3, 1882. Thomas M. Harlan, January 1, 1863; killed at Chickamauga.
Second Lieutenant .- Joseph H. Taylor, January 1, 1863.
Sergeants .- James Jackson, June 19, 1863, wounded at Chickamauga. James H. Frost. Joseph Harris, wounded at Chickamauga. Morris Gratz, reduced; wounded at Chick- amauga. Samuel M. Denny, February 3, 1862; discharged November 9, 1862. John D. Vinson.
Corporals. -- Thomas W. Rose, wounded and taken prisoner ar Chiekainanga. Benjamin F. Boatman, died October 20, 1×63, from wounds received at Chickamauga. Sock Harlan. William Hamilton, promoted to sergeant. November 1, 1862. John D. Cornelius. Jesse K. Randall, died in hospital, De-
cember 3, 1861. Henry Richster, deserted from hospital. John W. Kemp. Wesley Randall. Franklin. Drake. An- drew J. Griffin.
Company G.
Captains .-- Samuel L'Hommedieu. William H. C. Steele, promoted to captain May 16, 1864, and assigned to Com- pany E.
First Lieutenant .-- Levi P. Thompson, promoted from sec- ond lieutenant, Company E, June 8, 1864. 1
Second Lieutenants .- George T. Earhart, resigned October 17, 1862, by reason- of disability. John Adams, promoted from sergeant-major, September 26, 1861.
Sergeants .- John H. Huber, November 30, 1863. James Cloney, January 20, 1862.
Corporals .- Lester Shaw, September 25, 1861, wounded at Chickamauga. "Calvin Levingood, October, 1861 ; taken pris- oner at Chickamauga. Thomas Conklin, June 9, 1864.
Killed .- Peter A. Byers, corporal, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. William Newsock, corporal, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863.
Died .- Ephraim A. Day, sergeant, at Chattanooga, Sep- tember 26, 1861. William O. Paine, corporal. at Louisville, Ky., January 5, 1864. James M. Wyrick, sergeant, at Nash- ville, Tenn., November 30, 1863.
Discharged .- Nelson Thompson, corporal, for disability, March 19, 1862. Lorenzo Brown, transferred. George W. Gover, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps.
Company H.
Captains .- Michael S. Gunckel, resigned on account of disability, October 24, 1862; afterwards paymaster. Sarane! Martindale, October 24, 1863; dismissed by general court- martial, August 21, 1863. Theodore D. Mather, first lieuten- ant, October 24, 1864; captain, Marel 19, 1864.
First Lieutenant .- David W. Schaeffer, second lieutenant, October 24, 1862; first lieutenant, March 19, 1864.
First Sergeant .- John Giller, October 24, 1862.
Sergeants .- William B. Campbell, killed at Chickamauga. Charles Hamilton, reduced to ranks. Henry A. Bradford, redneed to ranks; killed by a shell at Bridgeport, Ala., Sep- tember 30, 1863. John A. Ladd, February 9, 1863. Edward S. Weakley, July 1, 1862. Richard Miller, October 12, 1862. Andrew Ball, November 1, 1863.
Corporals .- Charles T. Shipman, reduced, November 1, 1861; deserted, November 1, 1862. William Britton, trans- ferred to invalid corps. William Earhart, reduced, June 1, 1862; deserted, June 10, 1862. Barney Covens, reduced De- cember_1, 1862. David Huber. Martin Miller. Abia Z .. Hoffman. John G. Schimeltzer. James Gunckel. Andrew J. Hetzler.
Company I.
Captains .- Henry Mallory, resigned February 17, 1802. Andrew J. Lewis, promoted from first lieutenant to captain February 17, 1862; resigned, January 2, 1864, on account of disability; wounded at Chickamauga. Phil. Rothenbush, promoted from first sergeant to first lieutenant February 17, 1862; captain, March 30, 1864; wounded at Chickamauga.
First Lieutenant .- Robert B. Davidson, promoted from first sergeant Company B to second lieutenant Company B, May 12. 1563; first lieutenant, March 30, 1864, assigned to Company I.
Serend Lieutenant .- William Andrew, resigned March 23, 1863.
First Sergeants, -- W. H. H. Kanle, reduced to ranks No- vember 4, 1SC2; died February 20, 1864, at Hamilton, Ohio.
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Isaac L. Fisher, November 6, 1862; transferred to invalid corps, August 25, 1863. William K. Van Horn, August 25, 1863; wounded November 25, 1863, at Mission Ridge, Ten- nessee.
Sergeants .- John A. Whitaker, reduced to ranks August 9, 1862; transferred to invalid corps, December 1, 1863. George Jenkins, reduced to ranks November 6, 1862; de- serted November 6, 1862, at Bowling Green, Ky. John S. Giffen, August 9, 1862; died, November 6, 1862, at Ham- ilton, Ohio. Jolin M. Fenton, May 25, 1863, taken pris- oner at Chickamauga, September 20th, dying in prison. Aaron Moore, May 25, 1863. Louis D. Herman, May 25, 1863. Daniel Castator, May 25, 1863. George Bourrell, November 6, 18G2.
Corporals. - William Elarson, transferred to invalid corps November 1, 1863. Moses J. Wetzel. John Hnll, died at Nashville, Tenn., March 20, 1862. John P. Brooks, wounded, captured at Chickamauga. Robert Blair. John Seits. John Miller. Charles Bitner. Jeremiah Boatman.
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Wounded .- Captain A. J. Lewis, at Chickamauga. First Lieutenant Phil. Rothenbush, at Chickamauga. First Ser- geant W. K. Van Horn, at Mission Ridge. First Sergeant John M. Fenton, captured at Chickamauga. John Kapp, at Chickamauga. Archey McLeod, captured at Chickamanga. Alexander Sterret, at Chickamauga. Richard Herman, at Chickamauga. William MeLaughlin, at Chickamauga. Michael D. Garver, at Kenesaw Mountain. John P. Brooks, corporal, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. Jolin Brooks, private, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, Sep- tember 19, 1862. Daniel Castator, at Chickamauga, Septem- ber 19, 1863. Charles Daugherty, at Chickamauga, Septem- ber 19, 1863. Robert Dine, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20, 1803. Stephen H. Elkins, taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Emanuel Gratz, died at Stevenson, Ala., October 19, 1863, of wounds received at
Chickamauga. Frank W. Hillman, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., October 11, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga. Thompson Legget, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. John Oliver, taken prisoner at Chickamauga. John Smith, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., October 5, 1863, of wound received at Chickamauga. Henry Willis, at Chickamauga. John Miller, taken prisoner at Chickamauga. David Rich- ardson, taken prisoner at Chickamauga; died at Belle Island. Abraham Martindale, taken prisoner at Chickamauga; died : t Belle Island.
Deaths .- John Hull, March 20, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn. James K. P. Garver, July 15, 1862, at Hamilton, Ohio. Isaac Shellhouse, January 20. 18CS, at Gallatin, Tenn. Jackson Harimaek, February 8, 1862, at Somerset. Ky. Sanford P. Stitzeil, June 30, 1863, at Gallatin, Tenn. James H. Sirode, Jannary 2, 1863, at Hamilton, Ohio. W. H. H. Kimble, February 20, 1864, at Hamilton, Ohio.
Deserted .- Thomas H. Price, November 4, 1862; sentenced by court-martial to be shot to death : the President mitigated his sentence to imprisonment during the war at Dry Tor- tugas, Florida. . Willison Cumnons, September 20, 1862; sen- tenced by court-martial to be contined at Jefferson, Ind., penitentiary during the war. Patrick Doil, Cynthiana, Ky., September 29, 1861 George W. Jenkins, Bowling Green, Ky .; November 6, 1862. , Wm. Lewellen, Bowhng Green, Ky., November 4, 1862. Solomon Mandelbaum. Bowling Green, Ky,, November 6, 1562. Wakefield Martindill, Bow- ling Green, Ky., November 6, 1862. Charles Scheid. Bow- ling Green, Ky., November 6, 1862. Jacob Houser, absent without leave, April 20 1862.
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Company K.
Captain .- Joel K. Deardoff, died October S, 1863, of wounds received at Chickamauga.
First Lieutenant .- Lewis Lambright, wounded at the storm- ing of Mission Ridge.
Second Lieutenant .- David Stiles, brigade quarterinaster after July 3, 1862.
First Sergeant .- Richard H. Ford, wounded and paroled at the battle of Chickamanga.
Sergeants .- Thomas C. Pearson, wounded at Chickamauga; died in hospital of small-pox at Nashville, December 11, 1863. James M. Denny. Jacob Leibes, reduced to ranks May 28, 1862, at his own request; discharged for disability June 18,. 1862. James Blair, taken prisoner at Somerset. Ky., December 8, 1861; returned to duty February 22, 162. Miles M. Hale, January 10, 1862; deserted, August 31, 1863. Harvey Elliott, May 24, 1862; killed at Chickamauga. Henry B. Steller, May 28, 1862, .
Corporals .- George W. Gillmore, killed at Chickamauga. Charles R. Howard, discharged for disability May 18, 1862. William C. Mullinis, died in hospital at Corinth, June 22, 1862.
During the Summer of 1861 a number of other organ- izations were begun, but no other regiment than the Thirty-fifth went out from this county that season. Captain Peter Murphy organized a company of some sixty rank and file for State service in Liberty Township. They were all provided with uniforms and performed their tactical operations with skill and accuracy.
On the 16th of May the Butler Pioneers reached ninety men, who had enlisted for three years. They left on the seventeenth for Columbus, going to Camp Jackson. There proved to be a misunderstanding about . the orders to move, and they returned to Camp Hamil- ton at midnight. On the 1st of June, Second Lieuten- ant F. M. Leflar was the recipient of a sword, given him by his friends in Hamilton. The presentation speech was made by Robert Christy. Mr. Leflar responded briefly as follows :
"Sir, this valuable present indicates a feeling of respect and affection for me of which I feel altogether unworthy. It creates within me a feeling of pleasure and gratitude which I am unable properly to express. Be assured that it will inspire me with renewed courage. In the defense of our country I shall endeavor to use this sword in a manner that will be no disgrace to its liberal and patriotic donors."
June 9th the Butler Pioneers went to Camp Jackson, Columbus. Previously they were entertained by M. C. Ryan and Dr. MeElwee.
Mr. E. G. Dyer forwarded one hundred dollars to the Jackson Guards, stationed at Washington, to be divided among the men, which was done.
Company F, Second Regiment, were quartered on the 24th of June at Grafton, Virginia. On the way they were treated with great kindness. At one village the people turned out in crowds, and bountifully supplied the soldiers with bread and butter, cakes. pies, and other
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delicacies. On their way they met a company from ! Oxford. In West Virginia they had their first experi- ence in a march of any length. They found the accouter- ments were heavy. It was pretty hard work to carry a knapsack as full as it would hold, and forty rounds of ammunition, with a belt for bayonet and caps, a haver- sack with two days' rations, a plate, knife, fork, cup, and spoon, and gun weighing ten pounds; this formed a good load for a strong man.
A company called Anderson Grays was organized and uniformed in Hamilton as a reserve company of Ohio Volunteers. It was under the command of Captain Stone, of the First Ward, and exhibited remarkable pro- ficiency. On the 8th of August, 1861, the Butler Pioneers, or Company A, Twenty-sixth Ohio, were at Summersville, West Virginia. They had seen some serv- ice. The company had volunteered to break up a nest of rebels, some twenty miles from the regimental camp. They were gone three days, returning successfully and bringing back with them two prisoners of Wise's army, one a lieutenant. General Garrison was getting up a battalion of infantry. His camp was established on the grounds of William Beckett, south of the depot. The first company was nearly full. As fast as the companies were filled up they were to be sent to Camp Fremont, at St. Louis.
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September 12th C. H. Murray had over fifty recruits for Captain White's Cavalry Company, Second Regimeut Ohio Cavalry. Wilkeson Beatty and J. A. Zeller had begun recruiting a company for the Fiftieth Regiment. Robert Cullen had received authority to raise a company for the Fiftieth. A. J. Lewis had also received the same authority.
Captain Margedant, of the Engineering Corps, won the most favorable mention from the press for his enthu- siasm, personal exposure, and admirable services in recon- noitering, at constant personal risk, the enemy's lines. Forty men were in the Ninth Regiment which left under Captain Margedant, and about twenty-five men, under Lieutenant William H. Miller, attached to the Twelfth. It also contributed about forty men to the regular army.
Companies were in process of formation, on the 19th of September, as follows:
Infantry .- Captain Beatty, Captain Huber, Captain A. .. J. Lewis, Captain C. D. Smith, Captain Cullen.
Cavalry .- Captain White, Captain William Moore.
Charles Murray's company went to Camp Diek Cor- wine on the 26th of September with nearly a full con- pany of cavalry. This was the fourteenth company from the county.
A national fast was observed on the 26th of Septem- -ber, 1861.
The company of cavalry which left Hamilton for Camp Corwine held an election on the 28th of september for officers, with the following result: Clement Murphy,
Captain ; C. H. Murray, First Lieutenant; and Alexan- der C. Rossman, Second Lieutenant.
From Hamilton several families sent more than one member to the army. Among them were four sons of James Whittaker; three sons of Mrs. Castator; W. H. H. Kimble and two sons; J. Houser and two sons; I. W. Morris and two sons. Henry S. Earhart had two sons in the army.
Colonel L. D. Campbell was appointed colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and a recruiting office was opened at Miami Hall.
Recruits were taken in Hamilton for the Martin Guards of the Fifty-eighth Regiment. N. C. McLean, Colonel; William H. Martin, of the Hamilton and Day- ton Railroad, Lientenant Colonel; and Robert Reily, of Cincinnati, Major. . W. T. Tibbitts was the authorized recruiting agent.
The recruiting for the Sixty-ninth progressed rapidly.
Louis Ferree Berry, son of Philip and Rachel S. Berry, died at Camp Gauley, West Virginia, of congest- ive fever. He was in the three months' service, and afterwards enlisted for the three years' service. He served in a number of skirmishes and displayed a gallantry and coolness wonderful in que so young. He was probably the youngest of the victims from this county in the civil war, lacking, at the time of his death, one month of sixteen years of age.
Captain Murphy's company of cavalry visited Hamil- ton on the 6th of November, and were handsomely en- tertained by the Sixty-ninth.
Robert Cullen, captain, was engaged in Hamilton iu recruiting men for Meagher's Zouaves, Fiftieth Regiment. to be composed exclusively of Irishmen.
John Fiteh, a member of Company D, Thirty-ninth Regiment, died in the hospital at Camp Foster, near Macon, Missouri, on the 29th of November, 1861, aged twenty-four. He was from Butler County. He was buried with honors. Colonel Groesbeek led the regiment to the graveyard, three volleys were fired over his grave, and the chaplain, Rev. B. W. Chidlaw, made an eloquent address and offered up a fervent prayer.
Eleven hundred and forty-one men were enlisted in Butler County under the calls of the first year.
The civil war had many opponents in this county, and the first year had not passed without vigorous protests from them. The first burst of enthusiasm had silenced every voice, but in the course of two or three months objectors could again be heard in every part of the county. The Democratic party was divided into two camps, but the peace faction obtained the preponderating influence in the convention, which was duly hell on the 2d of August, and they used their power. M. N. Ma- ginnis was the leading spirit. He introduced a set of resolutions denouncing the war and reaffirming the prin- ciples of the resolutions of 1798, of the most ultra kind. They were warmly received, and were passed. But the
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sober sense of the party asserted itself afterwards, and the convention reassembled on the 21st, at which the previous resolutions were disavowed, and a more moder- ate series were passed. Many of those who had not been present previously were on hand, and the yeomanry were also in attendance, and it is safe to say that the latter meeting more thoroughly reflected the feelings of the Democracy than the former one did. There were then two newspapers published in Hamilton which were nom- inally Democratic, but they really differing as far as the poles. In the one controlled by Dr. McElwee the most undisguised denunciations of the war, its leaders and the abolitionists, were to be found. To be a friend of the -Union, as it was likely to be reconstructed, was tad enough; but to have a sympathy for a man with a col- ored skin was enough to cause a citizen's name to be written down among the most infamous of the human race. The Union Party, as the Republicans entitled themselves for this campaign, appealed to every patriotic sentiment of the country, and canvassed each township with great spirit, and came very near carrying the elec- tion. Two of the ticket were elected, the rest being defeated.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment was not wholly from this county. Besides Butler, it counts upon its lists the names of Darke, Montgomery, Preble, Harrison, and Fairfield. The first call for recruits was as follows:
TO ARMS! TO ARMS !!
"If any man hauls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."-John A. Dir.
CAMPBELL'S REGIMENT.
The governor of Ohio has authorized the undersigned to recruit the Sixty-ninth Regiment of Infantry for service for three years or the war, and has established the rendez- vous at Hamilton. It is important that this duty should be promptly executed, and I therefore invoke the active aid of all patriotic people. The vile traitors who have sacrile- giously defied the Constitution of our country, trampled the stars and stripes in the dust, and attempted to dissever the Union purchased by the blood of our fathers, are now rap- icty approaching the borders of our State in battle array. These infamous miscreants bring in their train desolation and woe, and we can no longer hope for peace to our coun- try or safety to our hoines and firesides except by flying speedily to arms. Already our sister State, Kentucky, whose gallant sons came to our relief when we were weak, and watered the soil of Ohio with their best blood in the war of 1812, supplicates us for aid. Let us not prove ungrateful to them in this their hour of peril, or forget our high duties to ourselves and to posterity. Let the alarm cry be sounded and-
To Arms! To Arms !!
Recruiting officers have been appointed by the adjutant- general, and volunteers will be paid and subsisted from the date of enlistment.
The fair-gronuds and buildings of the Agricultural Society will be immediately ocenpied as an encampment, where com- panies, squads, or singie volunteers will be received and provided for.
LEWIS D. CAMPBELL.
HAMILTON, O., October 5, 1801.
The people responded enthusiastically. Recruiting went ou all the latter part of 1861, and on the 19th of February the regiment, which had been organized in camp near Hamilton, took the railroad for Camp Chare. It was under the command of Colonel Lewis D. Camp- bell, long and favorably known as the congressman from this district. On the 19th of February the Sixty-ninth was sent to Nashville, Tennessee, arriving there on the 22d. It went into camp on the grounds of Major Lewis, and was reviewed by Andrew Johnson, the warm per- sonal friend of the colonel, then the military governor of Tennessee, and afterwards the Vice-president and Pres- ident of the United States. On the 1st of May it went to Franklin, where it acted as the guard for forty miles of the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad. The rebel women of Franklin were especially bitter, and on one occasion evinced their venom against the national dead buried in the cemetery by dancing on their graves. Colonel Campbell issued an order commenting in severe terms upon this indignity, and warning the people of Franklin against a repetition of such dastardly insults.
The regiment returned to Nashville on the 8th of June, going from that place by rail to Murfreesboro, and joining an expedition across the Cumberland Mountains. It returned to Murfreesboro at its close, having given a good illustration of its powers of marching. The troops suffered severely, and the rations proved to be in very short supply.
On the 20th of June it again entered Nashville, where it remained, doing provost duty until the last of July, Colonel Campbell acting as provost marshal. General Morgan, the rebel cavalry officer, made a descent upon Gallatin while the Sixty-ninth was in Nashville, and that regiment, with the Eleventh Michigan, went out to meet. them!, which they did with success, driving the enemy away, but losing one man, Isaac Repp, of Dayton. This was the first loss of the Sixty-ninth iu battle.
Colonel Campbell resigned on the 9th of August, and was succeeded by Lieutenant-colonel William B. Cassilly. When Bragg's army attempted a flank movement towards Louisville, the Sixty-ninth and other regiments were left in Nashville as a garrison for the city, a duty that proved very arduous, as there were not enough men to do it properly. Skirmishes were constantly taking place, and the men were becoming inured to military duty.
December 26th the regiment moved, with the army under General Rosecrans, towards Murfreesboro. On the first day of the battle of Stone River the regiment was engaged with the enemy, taking position in the advance line of General George H. Thomas's corps. It became involved in the disaster on the right, and was compelled to fight its enemy back to the Nashville Turn- pike, suffering severely both in killed and wounded. Ou Friday, January 2d, the Sixty-ninth took part in the brilliant and desperate charge across Stone River against Breckinridge's rebel corps, in which the enemy were
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driven back with heavy loss. In this charge it captured a part of the famous Washington Battery, from New Orleans, the flag being taken by Sergeant Frederick Wilson, of Company E. The fight lasted until after dark, and proved to be the end of the battle, as on the morning the rebel army was not to be seen. Many were killed and wounded.
Colonel Elliott wrote, shortly after the battle of Mur- freesboro, as follows:
" We have passed through a terrible struggle, lasting five days. Most of that time it was raining hard and we were without tents and blankets, and had but little to eat. But the Sixty-ninth passed through all this with- ont a murmur, and with few exceptions both officers and men behaved with great gallantry and bravery. I did not see an officer who had not done his whole duty, and I doubt if a braver set of men ean be found in this army. Our loss, though not large, we feel deeply. The wounded are as well cared for as circumstances will admit of, and we hope soon to be able to provide for all their wants. But, amid the confusion, death, and car- nage, it is hard to do any thing. It is but fair to add that the enemy treated all of our men who were wounded and taken prisoners most kindly. Some of the Sixty- ninth I found in private houses and tenderly waited on. Below find a list of killed and wounded :
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