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Seventy-Second Pennsylvania Infantry--“Baxter Zouaves.”
Philadelphia Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second Corps.
（1)
Col. De Witt C. Baxter;
Bvt. Brig.-Gen.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 170 |
| | B | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 11 | 11 | 173 |
| | C | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 10 | 10 | 158 |
| | D | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 10 | 10 | 176 |
| | E | 1 | 26 | 27 | | 9 | 9 | 179 |
| | F | | 16 | 16 | | 7 | 7 | 128 |
| | G | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 10 | 10 | 145 |
| | H | | 10 | 10 | | 10 | 10 | 145 |
| | I | 2 | 19 | 21 | | 8 | 8 | 146 |
| | K | | 11 | 11 | | 7 | 7 | 160 |
| Cos. L. M. N.
O. P. | | 20 | 20 | | 26 | 26 | |
| Totals | 11 | 182 | 193 | 2 | 117 | 119 | 1,596 |
193 killed == 12.9 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 736; total of captured and missing, 165.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 3 | Mine Run, Va. | 2 |
| Picket, Va. (June 1862） | 6 | Wilderness, Va. | 7 |
| Savage Station, Va. | 24 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 5 |
| Antietam, Md. | 58 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 9 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 6 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 64 | Petersburg, Va. | 7 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. | 1 | Jerusalem Road, Va. |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
Peach Orchard;
Glendale;
Malvern Hill;
Chantilly;
Chancellorsville;
North Anna.
notes.--Recruited in
Philadelphia as a “Fire Zouave” regiment.
It was organized in August, 1861, with fifteen companies, five of which were disbanded in 1862 and the men distributed to the other ten companies.
In the fall of 1861, the regiment was in
Stone's Division, which was guarding the
Maryland side of the
Upper Potomac.
In March, 1862, it moved up the Shenandoah Valley in
Banks's command, but was transferred soon after to the
Peninsular Army.
There the
Philadelphia Brigade was placed under command of
General Wm. W. Burns, and was assigned to
Sedgwick's Division.
At Savage Station--one of the Seven Days battles — the regiment lost 14 killed and 85 wounded; at
Antietam it fought under
Sedgwick at the Dunker Church, where it lost 38 killed, 163 wounded, and 36 missing; total, 237.
General Alex. S. Webb commanded the brigade at
Gettysburg.
In that battle the Seventy-second occupied an exposed position during the terrible artillery firing of the third day, and then took a conspicuous part in the repulse of
Pickett's Virginians.
The monument of the Seventy-second, which stands on that historic spot, states in its inscription, that the regiment had 473 men in line that day and that their loss was 44 killed, 145 wounded, and 2 missing; total, 191.
At
Mine Run,
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Hesser was killed on the skirmish line, while in command of the regiment.
Its shortened lines were actively engaged in all the battles of the
Wilderness campaign, and then, while in the trenches before
Petersburg, August, 1864, it received the order for its muster-out.
