| Regiment. | Division. | Corps. | Killed. | Wounded.1 | Missing.2 | Aggregate. |
| great Bethel, Va. | ||||||
| June 10, 1861. | ||||||
| 5th New York | Pierce's | ---------- | 6 | 13 | -- | 19 |
| Rich Mountain, W. Va. | ||||||
| July 11, 1861. | ||||||
| 13th Indiana | Rosecrans's | ---------- | 8 | 9 | -- | 17 |
| Blackburn's Ford, Va. | ||||||
| July 18, 1861. | ||||||
| 1st Massachusetts | Tyler's | ---------- | 10 | 8 | 14 | 32 |
| 12th New York | Tyler's | ---------- | 5 | 19 | 10 | 34 |
| First Bull Run, Va. | ||||||
| July 21, 1861. | ||||||
| 1st Minnesota | Heintzelman's | ---------- | 42 | 108 | 30 | 180 |
| 69th New York | Tyler's | ---------- | 38 | 59 | 95 | 192 |
| 79th New York | Tyler's | ---------- | 32 | 51 | 115 | 198 |
| Wilson's Creek, Mo. | ||||||
| August 10, 1861. | ||||||
| 1st Missouri | Lyon's | ---------- | 76 | 208 | 11 | 295 |
| 1st Kansas | Lyon's | ---------- | 77 | 187 | 20 | 284 |
| Carn Fex Ferry, W. Va. | ||||||
| Sept. 10, 1861. | ||||||
| 10th Ohio | Rosecrans' | ---------- | 9 | 50 | -- | 59 |
| Ball's Bluff, Va. | ||||||
| Oct. 21, 1861. | ||||||
| 15th Massachusetts | Baker's | ---------- | 14 | 61 | 227 | 302 |
| 20th Massachusetts | Baker's | ---------- | 13 | 40 | 228 | 281 |
| Belmont, Mo. | ||||||
| Nov. 7, 1861. | ||||||
| 7th Iowa | Grant's | ---------- | 26 | 93 | -- | 119 |
| 22d Illinois | Grant's | ---------- | 23 | 74 | -- | 97 |
| Camp Alleghany, W. Va. | ||||||
| Dec. 13, 1861. | ||||||
| 25th Ohio | Milroy's | ---------- | 6 | 54 | 6 | 66 |
| Dranesville, Va. | ||||||
| Dec. 20, 1861. | ||||||
| 1st Penn. Rifles | McCall's | ---------- | 3 | 26 | -- | 29 |
| Mill Springs, Ky. | ||||||
| Jan. 19, 1862. | ||||||
| 10th Indiana | Thomas's | ---------- | 10 | 75 | -- | 85 |
| 4th Kentucky | Thomas's | ---------- | 8 | 52 | -- | 60 |
| Fort Donelson, Tenn. | ||||||
| Feb. 12-16, 1862. | ||||||
| 11th Illinois | McClernand's | ---------- | 70 | 181 | 88 | 339 |
| 8th Illinois | McClernand's | ---------- | 54 | 188 | -- | 242 |
| 18th Illinois | McClernand's | ---------- | 53 | 157 | 18 | 228 |
| 9th Illinois | C. F. Smith's | ---------- | 36 | 165 | 9 | 210 |
| 2d Iowa | C. F. Smith's | ---------- | 33 | 164 | -- | 197 |
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using their carbines only.
Their horses were available for rapid movements or marches, but, in fighting, they relied on their carbines and dismounted tactics.
Some of the regiments which were recruited for the cavalry service in 1863, experienced a long delay in receiving their horses from the Government, during which they were assigned to infantry divisions, where they fought and manoeuvred as infantry.
The maximum casualties of the Light Artillery, in particular engagements, will also be found appended to the following lists.
Right here, however, it may be well to caution the reader against any assumption that, the regiments most prominent in these casualty lists were, necessarily, the ones which rendered the most efficient service.
At times some commands, by an exercise of dash and daring, accomplished brilliant results with but slight loss, while others, under similar circumstances, succeeded only at a bloody cost.
Among the leading regiments in point of loss at Gettysburg, as given here, the Twelfth Corps is scarcely represented; and, yet, the services rendered on that field by that command were unsurpassed in gallantry and important results.
The remarkable losses sustained by Johnson's (Confederate) Division and the three brigades attached to his command, were inflicted by regiments which have no place in the list of those prominent at Gettysburg, by reason of their casualties.
Granted, that Greene's Brigade delivered that deadly fire from behind breastworks; but, when Williams's and Geary's Divisions returned from Round Top, and found that during their absence their works had been occupied by the enemy, they became the assaulting party; they drove the enemy out of the works, re-took the position, and saved the right.
That, in accomplishing this, they could inflict so severe a loss and sustain so slight a one, is as good evidence of their gallantry and efficiency as any sensational aggregate of casualties.
list of battles, with the regiments sustaining greatest loss in each.
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