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

One Hundred and Forty-Seventh New York Infantry.

Total of killed and wounded, 581; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 62.

Present, also, at Chancellorsville; Totopotomoy; Boydton Road; Hicksford; Chapel House; Appomattox.

notes.--The One Hundred and Forty-seventh was organized in the city of Oswego, N. Y., from companies recruited in Oswego county, and was mustered into service on September 23, 1862. Its first casualties in battle occurred May 29, 1863, in the affair at Fitz Hugh's Crossing below Fredericksburg, one of the preliminary movements of the Chancellorsville campaign. The regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, then marched to Gettysburg. The brigade — Cutler's — was the first infantry to arrive on that field, and to it fell the honor of opening that famous battle, the first volley coming from the rifles of the Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania.¹ When Cutler's troops were forced back, the order to retire failed to reach the One Hundred and Forty-seventh, as Colonel Miller fell wounded and senseless just as he received it, and so the gallant band, under Major Harney, continued to hold their ground. A temporary success near by enabled them to retire in good order; but not all of them, for of the 380 who entered that fight, 76 were killed or mortally wounded, 146 were wounded, and 79 were missing; total, 301.²

During Grant's bloody campaign of 1864-5, the regiment fought in Warren's Fifth Corps, being actively engaged in all its battles. In December, 1864, the remnant of the Seventy-sixth New York infantry was transferred to the One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York.