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Seventy-Second New York Infantry--“Third Excelsior.”
Sickles's Brigade —
Hooker's Division--Third 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 | 1 | | 1 | | | | 15 |
| Company | A | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 101 |
| | B | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 10 | 10 | 132 |
| | C | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 6 | 6 | 151 |
| | D | 3 | 20 | 23 | | 5 | 5 | 123 |
| | E | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 10 | 10 | 127 |
| | F | | 14 | 14 | | 5 | 5 | 115 |
| | G | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 10 | 10 | 118 |
| | H | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 10 | 10 | 145 |
| | I | | 11 | 11 | | 16 | 16 | 118 |
| | K | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 5 | 5 | 105 |
| Totals | 11 | 150 | 161 | 1 | 88 | 89 | 1,250 |
161 killed == 12.8 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 509; captured and missing, 158; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 10.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Williamsburg, Va. | 77 | Wapping Heights, Va. | 2 |
| Seven Days Battle, Va. | 1 | Mine Run, Va. | 5 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 20 | Wilderness, Va. | 4 |
| Bristoe Station, Va. (1862） | 7 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 4 |
| Manassas, Va. | 2 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. | 3 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 18 | On Picket, Va. | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 15 | | |
Present, also
Yorktown;
Fair Oaks,
Glendale;
Totopotomoy; Cold Harbor;
Deep Bottom (1 Co.); Peeble's Farm.
notes.--Recruited principally in New York city and
Chautauqua county, Company B coming from
Jamestown, N. Y., and Companies D and E from
Dunkirk, N. Y. A regimental organization was effected at
Staten Island, where the other regiments of
Sickles's Brigade were forming, and in June, 1861, the command left for
Washington.
The brigade was attached to
Hooker's Division and ordered on duty along the
Lower Potomac, where it remained until it joined
General McClellan's army in 1862.
Colonel Taylor commanded the brigade at
Williamsburg, where it received the principal force of the enemy's attack.
The Seventy-second held an advanced position there, and lost 59 killed, 90 wounded, and 46 missing, the most of the latter being either killed or wounded.
The regiment was prominently engaged at
Malvern Hill, its losses in that action amounting to 14 killed and 47 wounded, out of about 300 who were in the engagement.
Colonel Stevens and four other officers were killed at
Chancellorsville, the regiment losing in that battle, 11 killed, 31 wounded, and 59 missing; total, 101.
At
Gettysburg, the
Excelsior Brigade participated in
General Sickles's grand battle, known as the second day's fight, the thinned ranks of the Seventy-second being again sadly depleted by the enemy's fire.
Its casualties on that field were 7 killed, 79 wounded, and 28 missing; total, 114.
The Excelsior Brigade was commanded, first by
General Sickles, and then by
Colonel Taylor, who was succeeded by
Colonel W. R. Brewster.
The division commanders were
Hooker,
Berry and
Humphreys.
Upon the transfer of the Third Corps to the Second, in April, 1864, the brigade was placed in
Mott's (4th) Division, afterwards
Birney's.
