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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 6: the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease. (search)
other regiments of the Corps d'afrique were actively engaged, but with fewer casualties. The First Louisiana Native Guard was attached to Augur's (1st) Division, and participated in the assaults of May 27th and June 14th, in which its principal loss occurred, its dead lying among those nearest the enemy's works. This regiment should not be confounded with the First Louisiana Infantry, also of Angur's Division,--a white regiment which, also, sustained a severe loss at Port Hudson. On June 7th, 1863, the colored troops composing the garrison at Milliken's Bend, La., were attacked by Walker's Division numbering 3,000 men. The garrison consisted of three colored regiments: the Ninth Louisiana, Eleventh Louisiana, and First Mississippi, In addition there were 200 men of the 23d Iowa (white) who had been escorting prisoners up the river, and were on their return to the front. The regiments were small, many of the men, and most of the officers, being absent on recruiting service or othe
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 10 (search)
part in the battle, the regiment losing only two men wounded. The Sixty-fifth was under fire at the Siege of Corinth, after which it marched with Buell on the long and arduous campaigns of the summer of 1862. At the battle of Stone's River, it fought in Harker's (3d) Brigade, Wood's (1st) Division, Crittenden's Corps (Left Wing), its casualties in that action aggregating 35 killed, 100 wounded, and 38 missing, out of 382 engaged. After a five months rest at Murfreesboro the Army moved, June 7, 1863, on its advance on Chattanooga. At Chickamauga the regiment lost 14 killed, 71 wounded, and 18 missing, Major Samuel C. Brown being among the killed. In October, 1863, the regiment was placed in Harker's (3d) Brigade, Newton's (2d) Division, Fourth Corps, in which command it fought during the long and bloody campaign against Atlanta. General Harker was killed while leading the assault on Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864. After the fall of Atlanta the Fourth Corps served in Tennessee, o