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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 38 2 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 37 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 30 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 3 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 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 25 9 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 22 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 19 1 Browse Search
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ster G. Hill Killed at Nashville. Brigadier-General Theodore Read Killed at High Bridge. There were also 23 Brevet Brigadier-Generals who were killed in action, but who were without brigade commands. They were regimental or staff officers whose brevets, in most instances, dated from the day they were killed. There were 35 general officers who died of disease during the war. Among them were several prominent and able officers--Generals Summer, C. F. Smith, Birney, Mitchel, Welsh, Buford, Corcoran, Ransom, Crocker, and other noted generals. A large number of brigades were commanded by Colonels, some of whom held a brigade command for a long time, during which they displayed marked ability, but without any recognition of their services on the part of the Government In the Confederate Army, each brigade commandant was commissioned as a Brigadier-General, except where the appointment was a temporary one. The list of Brigadiers killed in action would convey an erroneous im
ced at its head. It numbered 11,402 men present for duty, and was divided into three commands under Generals Pleasanton, Buford and Averell. Stoneman's corps made a raid on the enemy's rear during the Chancellorsville campaign, but, owing to variousengaged, Duffie's Division having been detached to hold a position elsewhere. The three divisions were commanded by Generals Buford, Duffie and Gregg. A proper compliment of horse artillery was attached, and two brigades of infantry were also presd, 177 wounded, and 161 missing; total, 401. At Gettysburg, the Cavalry Corps was still under Pleasanton's command, with Buford, Gregg and Kilpatrick as division-generals, and numbered 11,000 sabres and 27 guns. Two brigades of horse artillery--Robf captured men (6th U. S. Cavalry) at Fairfield, Pa. total, 641, the heaviest loss falling on Custer's Michigan Brigade. Buford's Division had the honor of opening this historic battle, his long skirmish-line of dismounted troopers holding the enemy
ng to 12 killed, 31 wounded, and 7 missing. Colonel Davis was killed in a personal encounter in this action. At Gettysburg the Eighth fought in Gamble's Brigade, Buford's Division — the brigade which opened that historic battle. During Sheridan's raids and the Shenandoah campaign, in 1864, the regiment served in Wilson's (3d) Diassas while leading a charge; the loss of the regiment in that battle was 8 killed, 13 wounded, and 97 captured,--many of the latter being wounded; it was then in Buford's Cavalry Brigade. In 1863 the regiment was assigned to Custer's Brigade of Michigan Cavalry. At Gettysburg the regiment lost 10 killed, 43 wounded, and 20 missre fire, in which Colonel Boomer was seriously wounded. Two weeks later, under Lieutenant-Colonel Holman, it was engaged at the battle of Corinth; it was then in Buford's (1st) Brigade, Hamilton's (3d) Division, Army of the Mississippi. During the Vicksburg campaign it was in Boomer's (3d) Brigade, Crocker's Division, Seventee
erly Ford, Va.             June 9, 1863.             8th New York Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 12 31 7 50 2d U. S. Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 11 29 26 66 WincheBuford's Cavalry 11 29 26 66 Winchester, Va.             June 13, 1863.             123d Ohio Milroy's Eighth 21 62 466 549 18th Connecticut Milroy's Eighth 18 46 534 598 67th Pennsylvania 5 5th Michigan Cavalry Kilpatrick's Cavalry 8 30 18 56 3d Indiana Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 6 21 5 32 Morgan's Raid, Ky.             July 4, 1863.         dy Station, Va.             August 1, 1863.             6th Penn. Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 5 20 4 29 9th New York Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 4 21 4 29 2d U.Buford's Cavalry 4 21 4 29 2d U. S. Cavalry Buford's Cavalry 5 18 -- 23 White Sulphur Springs, Va.             August 26-27, 1863.             14th Penn. Cavalry ------------ ---------- 10 Buford's Cavalry 5 18 -- 23 White Sulphur Springs, Va.             August 26-27, 1863.             14th Penn. Cavalry ------------ ---------- 10 42 50 102 3d West Va., M. Inf. ------------ ---------- 5 29 5 39 2d West Va., M. Inf. -----------
0 105 3 191 194 299 Gregg's Cavalry, A. P. Nov., ‘62 17th Pennsylvania 6 98 104   128 128 232 Buford's Cavalry, A. P. Nov., ‘62 18th Pennsylvania 5 55 60 2 230 232 292 Wilson's Cavalry, A. P. , A. C. Sept., ‘61 3d Indiana Reenlisted and served through the war. 1 62 63 1 130 131 194 Buford's Cavalry, A. P. Aug., ‘62 4th Indiana 3 25 28 5 193 198 226 McCook's Cavalry, A. C. Aug.,alry. Sept., ‘61 8th Illinois Reenlisted and served through the war. 7 68 75 1 174 175 250 Buford's Cavalry, A. P. Sept., ‘61 9th Illinois Reenlisted and served through the war. 1 45 46 6 States 7 60 67 2 90 92 159 Torbert's Cavalry, A. P.   6th United States 2 50 52 1 106 107 159 Buford's Cavalry, A. P.   Artillery.                     1st United States Not including deathanding, belongs the historic honor of firing the first volley on that field. The skirmishers of Buford's Cavalry were earlier on the field, but were only holding the ground until th