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, Chapter 9: famous divisions and brigades., page 119

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Chapter 1 : the casualties of war — maximum of killed in Union regiments — maximum of percentages.

Chapter 2 : maximum of regimental loss in killed in any one battle — proportion of wounded to killed.

Chapter 3 : percentage of killed in regiments in particular battles — comparison of such losses with those of European regiments.

Chapter 4 : loss in officers — list of Generals killed — Surgeons and Chaplains killed.

Chapter 5 : casualties compared with those of European wars — loss in each arm of the service — deaths from disease — classification of deaths by causes.

Chapter 6 : the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease.

Chapter 7 : muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics.

Chapter 9 : famous divisions and brigades.

Chapter 11 : list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each.

Chapter 12 : list of regiments and Batteries in the Union Armies with mortuary losses of each — the number killed and number of deaths from disease or other causes.

Chapter 13 : aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy .

Chapter 14 : the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate.

Chapter 15 : Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies --casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy .

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First Jersey Brigade.

First Division, Sixth Corps.

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
1st New Jersey Infantry	153
2d New Jersey Infantry	96
3d New Jersey Infantry	157
4th New Jersey Infantry	161
10th New Jersey Infantry	93
15th New Jersey Infantry	240

Total (during the war)	900

the Excelsior Brigade. （Sickles').

Hooker's (2D) Division, Third Corps.

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
70th New York Infantry	190
71st New York Infantry	88
72d New York Infantry	161
73d New York Infantry	156
74th New York Infantry	130
120th New York Infantry	151

Total (during the war)	876

the Philadelphia Brigade.

Gibbon's (2D) Division, Second Corps.

This brigade was commanded at Gettysburg by General Alex. S. Webb, and was the one which so successfully withstood the brunt of the attack made by Pickett's Divisioni:--

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
69th Pennsylvania Infantry	178
71st Pennsylvania Infantry	161
72d Pennsylvania Infantry	193
106th Pennsylvania Infantry	104

Total (during the war)	636

The gallant little Iowa Brigade (Belknap's) of the Seventeenth Corps:--

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
11th Iowa Infantry	93
13th Iowa Infantry	119
15th Iowa Infantry	126
16th Iowa Infantry	105

Total (during the war)	443

1888.

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