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 121

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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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Willich's¹ (1ST) Brigade.

Wood's (3D) Division, Fourth Corps.

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
25th Illinois	83
35th Illinois	109
89th Illinois	133
32d Indiana	171
68th Indiana	39
8th Kansas	105
15th Ohio	179
49th Ohio	202
15th Wisconsin	94

Total (during the war)	1,115

Harker's (3D) Brigade.

Sheridan's (2D) Division, Fourth Corps.

	Killed and Died of Wounds.
22d Illinois Infantry	147
27th Illinois Infantry	112
42d Illinois Infantry	181
51st Illinois Infantry	115
79th Illinois Infantry	85
3d Kentucky Infantry	109
64th Ohio Infantry	114
65th Ohio Infantry	126
125th Ohio Infantry²	118

Total (during the war)	1,107

The greatest percentage of loss in any brigade, in any one action during the war, occurred at Gettysburg, in Harrow's (1st) Brigade, Gibbon's (2d) Division, Second Corps. Its loss, as officially reported, was:--

	Killed.	Wounded.³	Missing.	Aggregate.
19th Maine	29	166	4	199
15th Massachusetts	23	97	28	148
1st Minnesota	50	173	1	224
82d New York (2d N. Y. S. M.)	45	132	15	192

Total	147	568	48	763

The four regiments took 1,246 officers and men into action — a loss of 61 per cent.⁴

At Stone's River, the Regular Brigade (15th, 16th, 18th, 19th United States Infantry), of Rousseau's Division, Fourteenth Corps, lost 94 killed, 489 wounded, and 47 missing; total, 630, out of 1,566 engaged.

1 Willich was wounded at Resaca, and succeeded by Col. William H. Gibson.

2 Transferred subsequently to the First Brigade.

3 Including the mortally wounded.

4 The Iron Brigade, also, lost 61 per cent, at Gettysburg; but the loss includes 267, captured or missing.

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