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Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry.
Hall's Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 6 | | 6 | | | | 24 |
| Company | A | | 27 | 27 | | 23 | 23 | 248 |
| | B | | 12 | 12 | | 13 | 13 | 229 |
| | C | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 16 | 16 | 137 |
| | D | | 32 | 32 | | 6 | 6 | 217 |
| | E | 3 | 19 | 22 | | 18 | 18 | 118 |
| | F | 2 | 28 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 238 |
| | G | | 21 | 21 | | 23 | 23 | 159 |
| | H | 2 | 29 | 31 | | 10 | 10 | 218 |
| | I | 1 | 36 | 37 | | 17 | 17 | 232 |
| | K | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 15 | 15 | 158 |
| Totals | 17 | 243 | 260 | 1 | 148 | 149 | 1,978 |
260 killed == 13.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 944; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 63.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Ball's Bluff, Va. | 38 | Wilderness, Va. | 36 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 5 | Po River, Va. | 5 |
| Savage Station, Va. | 1 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 20 |
| Glendale, Va. | 8 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 12 |
| Antietam, Md. | 20 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 12 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 48 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 2 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 3 | Boydton Road, Va. | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 44 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 1 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. | 1 | Guerillas, Va. | 1 |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
West Point;
Peach Orchard;
Malvern Hill;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy; Strawberry Plains; Ream's Station;
Sailor's Creek;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--
General Humphreys--
Chief of Staff, Army of the Potomac--in his able history, The Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865, alludes to the Twentieth as “one of the very best regiments in the service.”
It served on the
Peninsula, and at
Antietam, in
Dana's (3d) Brigade,
Sedgwick's (2d) Division.
At
Fredericksburg, the brigade, under
Colonel Norman Hall of the Seventh Michigan, distinguished itself by crossing the river in the face of the enemy's riflemen, who occupied the buildings on the opposite bank.
To the Twentieth was assigned the bloody task of clearing the streets; in column of companies, led by
Macy, it fought its way through the main street of the city exposed to a terrible fire from the windows and housetops; its casualties in this fight were 25 killed and 138 wounded;
no missing. At
Gettysburg, it lost 30 killed, 94 wounded, and 3 missing; total, 27, out of 12 officers and 218 men who went into that action.
The Twentieth sustained the greatest loss in battle of any
Massachusetts regiment; also, a remarkable fatality in its
Field and Staff, losing a Colonel,
Lieutenant-Colonel, two
Majors, an Adjutant, and a Surgeon, killed in battle.
Colonel Revere was mortally wounded at
Gettysburg;
Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand Dreher received a fatal wound at
Fredericksburg;
Major Henry L. Abbott was killed at the
Wilderness;
Major Henry L. Patton died of wounds received at
Deep Bottom; and
Surgeon Edward H. Revere was killed at
Antietam while in the discharge of his duties.
