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Eighty-First Pennsylvania Infantry.
Cross's Brigade —
Caldwell's Division--Second Corps.
| Losses. | Officers. | En.
Men. | Total. |
| Killed or mortally wounded | 18 | 190 | 208 |
| Died of disease, accidents, etc. | 2 | 75 | 77 |
| Died in Confederate prisons | | 21 | 21 |
| | | | |
| Totals | 20 | 286 | 306 |
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Total enrollment, 1,608; killed, 208 == 12.9 per cent.
| Battles. | Killed. | Wounded.1 | Missing.2 | Total. |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 8 | 32 | 51 | 91 |
| On Picket, Va., June, 1862 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Savage Station, Va. | 1 | 5 | 12 | 18 |
| White Oak Swamp, Va. | | 5 | | 5 |
| Glendale, Va. | 21 | 104 | 5 | 130 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 6 | 14 | 2 | 22 |
| Antietam, Md. | 7 | 44 | | 51 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 15 | 141 | 20 | 176 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 4 | 38 | 19 | 61 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 5 | 49 | 8 | 62 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. | | 5 | | 5 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 1 | 6 | | 7 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 10 | 63 | 4 | 77 |
| Totopotomoy, Va. | | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 8 | 33 | 3 | 44 |
| Petersburg Assault, Va. | 6 | 18 | 1 | 25 |
| Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 11 | 31 | | 42 |
| Deep Bottom, Va. | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 |
| Ream's Station, Va. | 4 | 9 | 15 | 28 |
| Hatcher's Run, Va., December 8, and March 25 | 4 | 8 | | 12 |
| Burkesville, Va. | 3 | 4 | | 7 |
| Farmville, Va. | 11 | 23 | 1 | 35 |
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| Totals | 128 | 643 | 147 | 918 |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
Peach Orchard;
Wilderness;
Po River;
North Anna; Strawberry Plains;
Appomattox.
notes.--Organized at
Philadelphia in October, 1861.
After encamping near
Washington for several months, it commenced active service in the field, March, 1862,--then in
Howard's (1st) Brigade,
Richardson's (1st) Division,
Sumner's (2d) Corps.
Colonel Miller was killed in the first battle —
Fair Oaks — and at
Malvern Hill his successor,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eli T. Conner, fell dead while gallantly leading his men. The division was commanded by
Hancock at
Fredericksburg, where the Eighty-first took part in the memorable assault of that day, losing 176 out of 261 present on the field.
Enough of the men renlisted, in January, 1864, to ensure a continuance of the organization, and they received a veteran furlough.
Hard fighting with further heavy losses were encountered in
Grant's campaigns, and at Cold Harbor,
Colonel McKeen, was killed, while in command of a brigade.
The Eighty-first took part in all the battles of the First Division, being hotly engaged at
Farmville, at which place the Second Corps fought its last battle.
