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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 4: loss in officers — list of Generals killed — Surgeons and Chaplains killed. (search)
r some of it, but for the greater part the reason must be looked for elsewhere. The general officers never hesitated in time of battle to share the danger with the men whenever it became necessary. The gallantry with which they were wont to expose themselves is fully evidenced by the long list of those who were killed. General officers killed N action. Army commanders. Major-General James B. McPherson, Army of Tennessee, Killed at Atlanta. Corps commanders. Major-General Joseph K. Mansfield, 12th A. C., Killed at Antietam. Major-General John F. Reynolds, 1st A. C., Killed at Gettysburg. Major-General John Sedgwick, 6th A. C., Killed at Spotsylvania. Division commanders. Major-General Isaac I. Stevens Killed at Chantilly. Major-General Philip Kearny Killed at Chantilly. Major-General Jesse L. Reno Killed at South Mountain. Major-General Israel B. Richardson Mortally wounded. Killed at Antietam. Major-General Amiel W. Whipple Mortall
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 8: Corps organizations. (search)
12th, General Order 129, it was ordered that its designation be changed to that of the Twelfth Corps, and that General Joseph K. Mansfield be placed in command. In the meantime the corps had done considerable hard fighting under its former title.tietam, it entered the fight early in the morning, and carried a position near, and in front of, the Dunker Church. General Mansfield fell, mortally wounded, while deploying his columns, and the command of the corps during the battle devolved on Genwounded, and 85 missing; total, 1,744), out of about 8,000 present in action. The vacancy caused by the death of General Mansfield was filled by the appointment of Major-General Henry W. Slocum, a division general of the Sixth Corps, who had alrew of May, 1865; he was absent only when in temporary command of the corps. He commanded the Twelfth Corps at Antietam, Mansfield having been killed while going into action; also, at Gettysburg, Slocum being in command then of the Right Wing. He al
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)
12, 1862. While stationed in the fortifications about Washington it was changed to heavy artillery November 9, 1862, and two additional companies, L and M, were added. Company M was organized originally at Lockport, N. Y, in October, 1862, as the Twenty-second Light Battery, and was transferred to the Ninth in February, 1863; Company L, was organized in 1863, and joined the regiment in December of that year. During its stay within the defences of Washington the Ninth built Fort Simmons, Mansfield, Bayard, Gaines, and Foote. On May 18, 1864, the regiment left Alexandria, Va., for the front, where it was assigned, soon after its arrival, to Colonel B. F. Smith's (3d) Brigade, Ricketts's (3d) Division, Sixth Corps. With the Sixth Corps it took part in the storming of the earthworks at Cold Harbor, its first experience under fire. Only two battalions were engaged there, the Third Battalion, under Major Snyder--Cos. G, I, L and F--having been ordered on detached service with the arti
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), Chapter 5: losses in the battles of the Civil War, and what they mean (search)
the Civil War knows, that it was not always the oldest regiments that were the bravest. In the gallant, though finally unsuccessful, assault that was made by the Federals at Salem Church, May 3, 1863, just where the Confederate line was broken for a time, the official reports show that the one hundred and twenty-first New York was in the Federal generals killed in battle—group no. 1—army and corps commanders Maj.-Gen. James B. McPherson, Atlanta. July 22. 1861. Maj.-Gen. Jos. K. Mansfield, Antietam, September 18, 1864. Maj.-Gen. John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864. Maj.-Gen. John F. Reynolds, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. on this and the following six pages are portraits of the fifty-one Union generals killed in battle. Beneath each portrait is the date and place of death, or mortal wounding. Since no such pictorial necrology existed to aid the editors of this History, many questions arose—such as the determination of the actual rank of an officer at a <