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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
Totals 128 643 147 918 Present, also, at Yorktown; Peach Orchard; Wilderness; Po River; North Anna; Strawberry Plains; Appomattox. notes.--Organized at Philadelphia in October, 1861. After encamping near Washington for several months, it commenced active service in the field, March, 1862,--then in Howard's (1st) Brigade, Richardson's (1st) Division, Sumner's (2d) Corps. Colonel Miller was killed in the first battle — Fair Oaks — and at Malvern Hill his successor, Lieutenant-Colonel Eli T. Conner, fell dead while gallantly leading his men. The division was commanded by Hancock at Fredericksburg, where the Eighty-first took part in the memorable assault of that day, losing 176 out of 261 present on the field. Enough of the men renlisted, in January, 1864, to ensure a continuance of the organization, and they received a veteran furlough. Hard fighting with further heavy losses were encountered in Grant's campaigns, and at Cold Harbor, Colonel McKeen, was killed, while in