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Chapter 3: percentage of killed in regiments in particular battles — comparison of such losses with those of European regiments.
The loss sustained by a regiment in any battle can be properly estimated, only when the number of men engaged is known and taken into consideration, The small battalion in which fifty men were killed must not be classed, in point of loss, with the large regiment losing the same number.
The 31 men killed in the One Hundred and Forty-first New York, at Peach Tree Creek, was as severe a loss as the 102 killed in the Eleventh Illinois at Fort Donelson.
The percentage of loss in each case was the same, and the one faced as hot a fire as the other.
In proportion to the number engaged, the greatest loss sustained by any regiment, during the war, was that of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg.
This regiment was then in Harrow's Brigade, Gibbon's Division, Second Corps.
On the afternoon of the second day at Gettysburg, the Union line was driven back in con
Halbert E. Paine (search for this): chapter 3
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