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10-18-1862 p2-3.
\nPope had his army of nearly thirty thousand men and, in my opinion, if he had put them in at the right time, we would have been entirely successful, but he didn\u2019t do it. He wanted us to whip the Rebels and then he was going to put his army in pursuit. And it\u2019s my honest and candid opinion and also of nearly all the officers, that I have seen that were there, that we were whipped with about one man to our three, and all by Pope\u2019s blundering.
\n\tThe Army of the Potomac lost in proportion in numbers ten men where Pope\u2019s army lost one. Out of our little battalion, of two hundred and about twenty five men, we lost nearly one hundred in killed and wounded, besides two officers killed and one so badly wounded that it is thought he will die.
\n\tAnd at Antietam, in which you seem to think that Porter\u2019s Corps was not engaged, we lost fifty-four men and one officer in the second Infantry in which I have been serving. There has been out of twenty that started, five officers killed and four badly wounded. One was shot in the mouth and his jaw is paralyzed for life. Another lost his leg, another was shot in the groin and it is doubtful very much whether he will live or not. The other one is shot in the breast and when last heard from was not doing very well. Besides them, three have been cashiered for cowardice before the enemy. Two have been retired and one dismissed, reducing the officers down to three that intended the field at first. Out of the whole 2nd Infantry there are not men enough left to make three full companies.
\n\tWhen we crossed over the River it was not by General McClellan\u2019s order, but General Porter\u2019s and, if you remember, none worth mentioning were lost with the exception of the 118th Pennsylvania, Corn Exchange Regiment. That was owed actively to their repugnance to wetting their feet. It they had gone two hundred yards farther down the river and waded across, I believe, they would have all got across safe but instead of that they tried to cross a little dam that would almost of put one man at a time and consequently was that it took them as long to cross that the enemy came up and literally cut them to pieces. For that dam, we took one man killed and four wounded, in all the fight\u2019s that have been taken place, I suppose, you haven\u2019t seen one where the Regulars have been in.
\n\tPlease write soon. Give my love to all,
\n\t\t Your son W. J. Fisher<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":4676,"height":2916,"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-300x187.jpg","width":300,"height":187,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-300x187.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-768x479.jpg","width":768,"height":479,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-768x479.jpg"},"large":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-2000x1247.jpg","width":2000,"height":1247,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-2000x1247.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"10-18-1862-p2-3.jpg","width":4676,"height":2916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1862-p2-3.jpg","filename":"10-18-1862-p2-3.jpg","filesize":4411191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}]}}