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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., First Company Sharpshooters Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
（1) Capt. John Saunders. （2) Capt. William Plumer. （3) Capt. Isaac N. Mudgett. Officers.Enlisted Men.Total.Officers.Enlisted Men.Total. Number on rolls,11257268Killed and died of wounds,31619 Missing,–22 Enlisted men (included above) commissioned in company,–77Died by accident or disease,–1616 Died as prisoners,–33 Actual total of members of company,11250261Totals,33740 Casualties by Engagements. 1862.May 18, Spotsylvania, Va.,–11 Sept. 17, Antietam, Md.,2810 May 31, Jones Farm, Va.,–11 1863.June 3, Cold Harbor, Va.,–11 July 2-3, Gettysburg, Pa.,–33 June 18, Petersburg, Va.,1–1 1864. May 12, Wilderness, Va.,–11Sept. 28, Petersburg, Va.,–11 The 1st Company Sharpshooters, known as the Andrew Sharpshooters, numbering 98 men, under Capt. John Saunders, was organized in camp at Lynnfield, Mass., in August, 1861, and was mustered and left the State September 3. It was assigned to General Lander's Brigade, located near Poolsville, Md., and
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lane's Corps of sharpshooters. (search)
couldn't get that promised Yankee for General Lee, but I caught seven Dutchmen. They were sent at once to division headquarters with a note from the brigadier, giving the credit of the capture to Wooten, and stating that if General Lee could make anything out of their foreign gibberish. it was more than he could. After our line had been broken by Grant in the spring of 1865, and the brigade driven from the works, this corps very materially helped to retake the same works as far as the Jones Farm road, where it was confronted by two long lines of battle and a strong skirmish line. To escape death or capture, the brigade was ordered back to Battery Gregg and Howard's Dam, near Battery 45. In the retreat to Appomattox Courthouse this corps was kept very busy, and it was often engaged when not a shot was fired by any of the regiments. Field and staff of Lane's Brigade and its regiments from their organization to their surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Brigadier-Generals.—