 Early in this combat, Colonel Hawley was shot in the neck, while General Mansfield was shot off his horse and mortally wounded as he led other Regiments of the Twelfth Corps into battle (his successor, General Samuel W. Crawford was also carried from the field).The 124th Regiment suffered 64 casualties during the battle.The next day, Clayton and his colleagues in the 124th Regiment had burial duty and had to clean up the carnage and slaughter of America's bloodiest day.