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Strength of Ewell's Division in 1862.
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SECOND AND SIXTH VIRGINIA CAVALRY.
 
Regimental and company officers...    54
Quartermasters... 1
Commissaries... 2
Surgeons and assistant surgeons... 4
Enlisted men... 841
  Total... 7 895
 
CONSOLIDATED STRENGTH OF DIVISION FOR DUTY.
 
Major-General and staff officers... 4
Division-quartermaster... 1
Division-commissary... 1
Division-surgeon... 1
Infantry— General and staff officers... 8
  Quartermasters... 9
  Commissaries... 9
  Surgeons and assistant surgeons... 17
  Regimental and company officers... 335
  Enlisted men... 5,992
Artillery— Surgeon... 1
  Officers... 13
  Enlisted men... 80
  Total strength of Division... 38 6,589

Cavalry temporarily attached:

SECOND AND SIXTH VIRGINIA CAVALRY.
 
Quartermasters... 1   
Commissaries... 2
Surgeons and assistant surgeons... 4
Regimental and company officers... 54
Enlisted men... 841
    45 7,484
  45
Entire force carried into the Valley to the assistance of Jackson, including general and staff officers of all kinds... 7,529

Subsequent returns of Elzey's and Trimble's brigades, of the 10th of May, 1862, about ten days before Ewell's junction with Jackson, show that there was a slight diminution in the effective strength of each of these brigades. There is no return of Taylor's brigade of that date, but the return for May, made on the 1st of June, show a diminution of more than 400 in the effective strength