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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 233 233 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 34 34 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 30 30 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 27 27 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 21 21 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 20 20 Browse Search
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 13 13 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 7 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 6 Browse Search
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f loss which tells better than any flight of rhetoric how often and how well they faced the enemy's fire. The story of the muster-out-roll is, at best, but a sad one. One is carried back to the war and surrounded by its sad pictures. In scanning the remarks attached to the names there are the ever recurring phrases which recall vividly its thrilling scenes. Killed, July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg; and one thinks of Pickett's charge, or other incidents of that historic field. Killed, May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights; and the compiler lays down his pencil to dream again of that fierce charge which swept upward over the sloping fields of Fredericksburg. Wounded and missing, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, suggests a nameless grave marked, if at all, by a Government headstone bearing the short, sad epitaph, Unknown. Killed at Malvern Hill, July 11 1862; and there rises a picture of an artilleryman lying dead at the wheels of his gun. Died of gunshot wound before Atlanta, Aug
command of the corps. General Slocum's able services were acknowledged by his promotion to the command of the Twelfth Corps, and General W. T. Brooks succeeded Slocum in command of the First Division, while General A. P. Howe succeeded to the command of Smith's (2nd) Division. The next battle occurred at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, in which only a few regiments of the corps were engaged, although all were under a severe artillery fire. But the corps was engaged on the same field, May 3, 1863, in an action which made it famous on account of the brilliant display of dash and daring. When Hooker took the Army to Chancellorsville he left the Sixth Corps in front of Fredericksburg, which was still held by a strong force of the enemy. General Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the corps command, ordered an assault on Marye's Heights, and that strong position which had defied the assaults of the previous battle, was now carried by the Sixth Corps at the point of the bayonet. The divi
muzzles of a line of rifles. In the successful assault on Marye's Heights, May 3, 1863, the flag of the Sixth was the first to wave over the enemy's works. The reer, rejoined the corps in January, 1863, and were engaged at Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863 with a loss of 12 killed, 49 wounded, and 31 missing. In May, 1864, the region 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 couished itself in the hard-fought battle of the Sixth Corps at Salem Heights, May 3, 1863, in which action it lost 7 killed, 68 wounded, and 6 missing. At the Wildernf Fredericksburg, 1862, but was not actively engaged. In the second battle--May 3, 1863--it took part in the engagement at Salem Church, where it sustained a loss othe regiments thus selected. In the successful storming of Marye's Heights, May 3, 1863, the regiment took a leading part in the assault made by the Light Division,
teenth 10 65 -- 75 69th Indiana Osterhaus's Thirteenth 14 45 -- 59 42d Ohio Osterhaus's Thirteenth 12 47 -- 59 Chancellorsville, Va.             May 1-3, 1863.             12th New Hampshire Whipple's Third 41 213 63 317 124th New York Whipple's Third 28 161 15 204 141st Pennsylvania Birney's Third 23 152 60 23 101 149th New York Geary's Twelfth 15 68 103 186 Marye's Heights, Va. Including losses at other parts of the field, Salem Heights, etc.             May 3, 1863.             5th Wisconsin Burnham's Sixth 35 122 36 193 33d New York Howe's Sixth 17 130 74 221 7th Massachusetts Newton's Sixth 22 125 3 150 6th Maine Burnham's Sixth 23 111 35 169 2d Vermont Including loss at Banks' Ford. Howe's Sixth 17 115 -- 132 Salem Church, Va.             May 3, 1863.             121st New York Brooks's Sixth 48 173 55 276 15th New Jersey Brooks's Sixth 24 126 4 154 95th Pennsylvania Brooks's Sixth 23
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 14: the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate. (search)
Ninth Corps. The Virginia Campaign of ‘64 and ‘65: Humphreys; pp. 408-411. As regards the loss in the Union armies, the greatest battles of the war were: Date. Battle. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Aggregate. July 1-3, 1863. Gettysburg 3,070 14,497 5,434 23,001 May 8-18, 1864. Spotsylvania 2,725 13,416 2,258 18,399 May 5-7, 1864. Wilderness 2,246 12,037 3,383 17,666 Sept. 17, 1862. Antietam Not including South Mountain or Crampton's Gap. 2,108 9,549 753 12,410 May 1-3, 1863. Chancellorsville 1,606 9,762 5,919 17,287 Sept. 19-20, 1863. Chickamauga 1,656 9,749 4,774 16,179 June 1-4, 1864. Cold Harbor 1,844 9,077 1,816 12,737 Dec. 11-14, 1862. Fredericksburg 1,284 9,600 1,769 12,653 Aug. 28-30, 1862. Manassas Including Chantilly, Rappahannock, Bristoe Station, and Bull Run Bridge. 1,747 8,452 4,263 14,462 April 6-7, 1862. Shiloh 1,754 8,408 2,885 13,047 Dec. 31, 1862. Stone's River Including Knob Gap, and losses on January 1st and 2d. 1863
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 15: Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies--casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy. (search)
0th South Carolina Anderson's Withers's 16 91 2 109 10th Texas Cav'y (dismounted) Ector's McCown's 10 93 15 118 Arkansas Post, Ark.             Jan. 11, 1863.             24th Texas ---------- ---------- 12 17 25 54 6th Texas ---------- ---------- 8 24 21 53 Thompson's Station, Tenn.             March 5, 1863.             1st Texas Legion ---------- ---------- 11 59 7 77 4th Mississippi ---------- ---------- 9 37 -- 46 Chancellorsville, Va.             May 1-3, 1863.             37th North Carolina Lane's A. P. Hill's 34 193 -- 227 2d North Carolina Ramseur's D. H. Hill's 47 167 -- 214 13th North Carolina Pender's A. P. Hill's 31 178 7 216 3d North Carolina Colston's Trimble's 38 141 17 196 22d North Carolina Pender's A. P. Hill's 30 139 15 184 17th North Carolina Lane's A. P. Hill's 37 127 -- 164 4th North Carolina Ramseur's D. H. Hill's 45 110 58 213 5th Alabama Rodes's D. H. Hill's 24 130 121 275