Note 20 — Chapter XX · THE MINE AFFAIR.

The losses of the rebels in their charges upon our lines was no less severe. The Sixth Virginia carried in ninety-eight men and lost eighty-eight. The Sharp-shooters carried in eighty men and lost sixty-four, their commander falling, while leaping upon the parapet, pierced by eleven bayonet wounds. The Forty-first Virginia lost one-fourth its number; the Sixty-first within a fraction of half its number. The loss in the Sixteenth was nearly as great as in the Sixth, proportionally. See McCabe's "Defence of Petersburg," Southern Historical Society Papers, Dec., 1876, pp. 293, 294.