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Second Vermont Infantry.
Vermont Brigade--
Getty's Division--Sixth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | 1 | 3 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | | 28 | 28 | | 20 | 20 | 209 |
| | B | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 9 | 9 | 168 |
| | C | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 13 | 13 | 169 |
| | D | | 23 | 23 | | 23 | 23 | 178 |
| | E | 2 | 26 | 28 | | 26 | 26 | 197 |
| | F | | 20 | 20 | | 16 | 16 | 179 |
| | G | | 21 | 21 | | 11 | 11 | 168 |
| | H | | 19 | 19 | | 17 | 17 | 170 |
| | I | | 24 | 24 | | 15 | 15 | 176 |
| | K | | 20 | 20 | | 25 | 25 | 184 |
| Totals | 6 | 218 | 224 | | 175 | 175 | 1,811 |
224 killed == 12.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 887; Loss by disease includes 22 deaths in Confederate prisons.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| First Bull Run, Va. | 5 | Wilderness, Va., May 5-6 | 80 |
| Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862 | 2 | Spotsylvania, Va., May 10-13 | 46 |
| Yorktown, Va., April 30, 1862 | 3 | Spotsylvania, Va., May 18 | 3 |
| Savage Station, Va. | 8 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 7 |
| Antietam, Md. | 1 | Charlestown, W. Va. | 5 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 5 | Opequon, Va. | 7 |
| Marye's Heights, Va. | 16 | Cedar Creek, Va. | 10 |
| Banks's Ford, Va. | 10 | Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 | 3 |
| Funkstown, Md. | 1 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 10 |
| Gunboat service, Miss. | 1 | Picket Line, Va., Sept. 11, 1861 | 1 |
Present, also, at
Williamsburg; Golding's Farm;
White Oak Swamp;
Malvern Hill; Crampton's Gap;
Salem Heights ;
Gettysburg ; Rappahannock Station;
Fort Stevens;
Fisher's Hill;
Sailor's Creek.
notes.--Organized at
Burlington, leaving the
State June 24, 1861.
The Second rendered important service on many battle fields, though with comparatively small casualty lists, until May 3, 1863, when it was hotly engaged at the storming of
Marye's Heights, and in the covering of the retreat on the next day, at Banks's Ford.
The brigade was then in
Howe's Division, Sixth Corps; the losses of the regiment in the two daysactions were 17 killed and 116 wounded At the
Wilderness it lost 49 killed, 285 wounded, and 14 missing, a total of 348 out of about 700 men engaged.
In this battle
Colonel Stone fell dead from his horse, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Tyler, who succeeded him, received a mortal wound.
The next week, the regiment fought at
Spotsylvania, with a loss — of 27 killed, 80 wounded, and 16 missing; total, 123.
The Second participated in all the battles of the Sixth Corps, serving from first to last in the Second Brigade of the Second Division.
It was engaged in the final battles about
Petersburg; and, at
Sailor's Creek, while skirmishing with the rear guard of the retreating enemy, the men of the Second fired the last shots of the Sixth Corps; though a matter of chance, the honor could not have been better awarded.
