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Seventy-Fourth New York Infantry--“Fifth Excelsior.”
Excelsior Brigade —
Hooker's Division--Third Corps.
| Losses. | Officers. | En.
Men. | Total. |
| Killed and mortally wounded | 8 | 122 | 130 |
| Died of disease, accidents, etc. | 2 | 57 | 59 |
| Died in Confederate prisons | | 10 | 10 |
| | | | |
| Totals | 10 | 189 | 199 |
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| Battles. | Killed. | Wounded.1 | Missing.2 | Total. |
| Yorktown, Va. | | 1 | | 1 |
| Williamsburg, Va. | 36 | 54 | 53 | 143 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 1 | 19 | | 20 |
| Oak Grove, Va. | 2 | 28 | | 30 |
| Seven Days Battle, Va. | | 9 | 15 | 24 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. (1862） | 10 | 53 | 1 | 64 |
| Manassas, Va. | 1 | 15 | 18 | 34 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 3 | 22 | 15 | 40 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 12 | 74 | 3 | 89 |
| Wapping Heights, Va. | 4 | 7 | | 11 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 1 | 9 | | 10 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 1 | 16 | 7 | 24 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 3 | 12 | 1 | 16 |
| North Anna, Va. | | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Totopotomoy, Va. | | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | | 1 | | 1 |
| Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 2 | 8 | | 10 |
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| Totals | 76 | 335 | 118 | 529 |
Present, also, at
Glendale;
Malvern Hill;
Chantilly;
Fredericksburg;
Deep Bottom.
notes — Organized at New York in June, 1861.
Preparatory to its departure for the field it was encamped on
Staten Island with other regiments of
Sickles's Brigade.
In August, 1861, the command left New York for
Washington, and was stationed near there several weeks.
The brigade, having been assigned to
Hooker's Division, was ordered to occupy the line of the
Lower Potomac in
Maryland, where it patrolled the river for twenty miles. In November, 1861, part of the regiment crossed the river with
Colonel Graham on an expedition to
Mathias Point, Va. In April, 1862, the brigade left its winter-quarters in
Maryland to join
General McClellan's advance up the
Peninsula.
The Seventy-fourth distinguished itself at
Williamsburg, where the brigade fought in an
abattis of felled timber, holding its position successfully against the main force of the enemy.
The division was commanded at
Chancellorsville by
General Berry, who was killed there.
The Seventy-fourth received but few recruits, and when it marched to
Gettysburg its thinned ranks showed the effects of bullets and disease.
Still it faced the hottest of the musketry on that historic field, with the consequent heavy percentage of loss.
The Third Corps was transferred to the Second in March, 1864, and with it the
Excelsior Brigade under
Colonel Brewster.
The brigade under this arrangement became the Second Brigade of
Mott's Division.
The Seventy-fourth was mustered out June 26, 1864; the reenlisted men and recruits with unexpired terms were transferred to the Fortieth New York.
As only one of the “Excelsior” regiments reenlisted, the service of that famous brigade terminated in July, 1864.
