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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 10 (search)
uished itself particularly at Rappahannock Station, carrying the enemy's works by a bayonet charge in which some of the regiments lost heavily. However fortunate the Forty-ninth may have been in previous battles, it was destined to suffer a terrible loss at Spotsylvania. In that battle it was one of the twelve selected regiments which formed the assaulting column under the gallant Upton. In that charge, 260 of its men were cut down by the enemy's fire, and Colonel Hulings and Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Miles were killed Two days later the regiment was engaged in the bloody contest at the Angle with still further loss. From May 6th to May 13th, 1864--including the Wilderness and Spotsylvania — this regiment lost 317, in killed or wounded, out of the 530 who crossed the Rapidan. Fiftieth Pennsylvania Infantry. Christ's Brigade — Willcox's Division--Ninth Corps. （1) Col. Benjamin C. Christ; Bvt. Brig. Gen. （2) Col. William H. Telford. companies. killed and died of