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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)
. In December, 1861, the brigade was ordered on duty along the Lower Potomac, where it joined Hooker's Division. It took the field in April, 1862, moving up the Peninsula with the Third Corps. The brigade was in the thick of the fight at Williamsburg, and the Jersey Blues won a place in history that day; the losses there in the Sixth Regiment were 39 killed, 74 wounded, and 26 missing; among the killed were Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Van Leer, who was in command at that battle, and Adjutant Aaron Wilks. Lieutenant-Colonel Mott of the Fifth was transferred to the colonelcy of the Sixth soon after this battle. The brigade, under General Mott, distinguished itself at Chancellorsville by the persistency with which it held its ground and repulsed the repeated advances of the enemy, the regiment lost there 6 killed, 53 wounded, and 8 missing. The brigade was transferred in March, 1864, to the Second Corps, becoming the First Brigade (McAllister's) of Mott's (4th) Division. This division