SC Historical Society: Return of the killed, wounded, and missing, of the following corps, from then 28th of September to the 19th of October, 1781.

Return of the killed, wounded, and missing, of the following corps, from then 28th of September to the 19th of October, 1781.

ROYAL artillery. 24 rank and file killed; 21 ditto wounded; 2 ditto missing.
Guards. 1 serjeant, 3 rank and file, killed; 1 serjeant, 21 rank and file, wounded.
Light infantry. 1 lieutenant, 3 serjeants, 24 rank and file, killed; 3 lieutenants, 2 serjeants, 1 drummer, 51 rank and file, wounded.
17th regiment. 1 drummer killed; 1 serjeant, 6 rank and file, wounded.
23d regiment. 2 lieutenants, 1 serjeant, 8 rank and file, killed; 3 serjeants, 2 drummers, 15 rank and file, wounded.
33d regiment. 1 captain, 7 rank and file, killed; 1 lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 10 rank and file, wounded; 1 subaltern, 7 rank and file, missing.
43d regiment. 1 serjeant, 9 rank and file, killed; 1 serjeant, 1 drummer, 16 rank and file, wounded; 1 captain, 11 rank and file, missing.
71st regiment. 1 lieutenant, 9 rank and file, killed; 3 drummers, 19 rank and file, wounded; 1 major, 10 rank and file, missing.
76th regiment. 1 drummer, 5 rank and file, killed; 1 lieutenant, 4 rank and file, wounded.
80th regiment. 1 rank and file killed; 11 ditto wounded; 1 captain, 9 rank and file, missing.
Two battalions Anspach. 1 serjeant, 11 rank and file, killed; 4 serjeants, 30 rank and file, wounded.
Prince Hereditaire. 2 serjeants, 2 drummers, 19 rank and file, killed; 7 serjeants, 1 drummer, 49 rank and file, wounded; 2 serjeants, 14 rank and file, missing.
Regiment de Bose. 1 captain, 4 serjeants, 13 rank and file, killed; 1 ensign, 4 serjeants, 3 drummers, 32 rank and file, wounded; 1 serjeant, 10 rank and file, missing.
Total. 2 captains, 4 lieutenants, 13 serjeants, 4 drummers, 133 rank and file, killed; 5 lieutenants, 1 ensign, 24 serjeants, 11 drummers, 285 rank and file, wounded; 1 major, 2 captains, 1 subaltern, 3 serjeants, 63 rank and file, missing.

Rank and names of officers in the above return.

HON. Major Cochrane, acting aid-de-camp to Earl Cornwallis, killed.
Light infantry. Lieutenant Campbell, 74th company, killed; Lieutenant Lyster, 63d ditto, wounded, since dead; Lieutenant Dunn, 63d ditto, wounded, since dead; Lieutenant Lightburne, 37th ditto, wounded.
23d regiment. Lieutenants Mair and Guyon killed.
33d regiment. Captain Kerr killed, Lieutenant Carson wounded.
71st regiment. Lieutenant Fraser killed.
76th regiment. Lieutenant Robertson wounded.
Captain Rall killed, Ensign Sprangenberg wounded.
Commissary Perkins killed.

J. DESHARD,
Dep. Adj. Gen.

(From A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Province of North America?, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, pp445-447.)

Tarleton, Ch 6., [BB], p. 445
10/19/1781

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