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corps lost 438 killed, 1,796 wounded, and 115, missing; total, 2,349, out of about 8,500 in action. General Rodman was among the mortally wounded. In October, Cox's Division returned to West Virginia, whence it had been withdrawn to reenforce Pope, and its brief connection with the corps terminated. This division had made a brilliant record by its gallant services at South Mountain and Antietam. Upon the departure of General Cox the command of the corps fell to General Willcox. General W. W. Burns was appointed to fill the vacancy thus caused in the First Division, and General George W. Getty was placed in command of the Third Division, formerly Rodman's. On November 5, 1862, General Burnside was made commander-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac. At Fredericksburg, the casualty lists indicate that the corps took into action 31 regiments and 5 batteries, with a loss of 111 killed, 1,067 wounded, and 152 missing; total, total, 1,330. Not long after this battle General Sedgwi
he Shenandoah Valley in Banks's command, but was transferred soon after to the Peninsular Army. There the Philadelphia Brigade was placed under command of General Wm. W. Burns, and was assigned to Sedgwick's Division. At Savage Station--one of the Seven Days battles — the regiment lost 14 killed and 85 wounded; at Antietam it foone of his men was found dead beside a dead foe, each transfixed with the other's bayonet. In November, 1862, the regiment was transferred to Poe's (1st) Brigade, Burns's (1st) Division, Ninth Corps. In February, 1863, the Ninth Corps moved to Newport News, Va., and thence, in March, to Kentucky; it remained there until June, wherps, with which it marched to Fredericksburg, where it was under fire, with a slight loss in wounded men. It was then in the First Brigade (Poe's), First Division (Burns's). The regiment accompanied the Ninth Corps to Kentucky, and on May 10th, 1863, had a brisk fight at Horse Shoe Bend, Ky., on the Cumberland River, where it was a
ne months.       1 40 41 41 Wadsworth's First. Sept., ‘62 23d New Jersey Enlisted for nine months. 4 31 35 1 54 55 90 Brooks's Sixth. Sept., ‘62 24th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months. 3 46 49   53 53 102 French's Second. Sept., ‘62 25th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months. 1 19 20   37 37 57 Getty's Ninth. Sept., ‘62 26th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months. 1 14 15   21 21 36 Howe's Sixth. Sept., ‘62 27th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months.       1 93 94 94 Burns's Ninth. Sept., ‘62 28th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months.   51 51 2 31 33 84 French's Second. Sept., ‘62 29th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months.   1 1   39 39 40 Wadsworth's First. Sept., ‘62 30th New Jersey Enlisted for nine months.       2 62 64 64 Wadsworth's First. Sept., ‘62 31st New Jersey Enlisted for nine months.         39 39 39 Wadsworth's First. Aug., ‘63 33d New Jersey 6 72 78   85 85 163 Geary's Twentieth. Sept