Albany Evening journal, May 17, 1864, Laurel Hill update
THE FORTY-FOURTH. - Capt. B. R. WOOD Jr., put down among the missing of the
Forty-fourth New York Volunteers, is reported by Col. CONNER as unhurt up to Sunday
morning, (the 8th) when the Regiment, being in the extreme front, was suddenly flanked by a large
body of Rebels and forced to fall back, leaving the Captain and a number of men, who were too
far ahead to hear the order, and who were captured. But Capt. WOOD, with others, had the
good fortune to be rescued by Gen. SHERIDAN'S cavalry. Col. CONNER was shot at this time,
probably by some of our own men in the second line. The ball struck him under the arm-pit and
passed out over his left breast - fortunately not striking a bone. He is doing finely. Lieut. Col.
KNOX was hit a few minutes after the Colonel, a piece of shell striking him in the back of the
head, inflicting an ugly but not dangerous wound. The Regiment has lost ten officers - killed,
wounded and missing - out of seventeen, and nearly two-thirds of its men.
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