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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 8: Corps organizations. (search)
a deadly struggle, the percentage of killed in the Fifteenth New Jersey being equalled in only one instance during the whole war. On May 10th--at Spotsylvania--General Upton led a storming party of twelve picked regiments selected from the Sixth Corps, which carried the Confederate works after a hand-to-hand fight in which bayonet wounds were freely given and received. Extract from a private letter from General Upton: My dear Sir — Your letter of the 7th, enclosing extract, is received. Bayonet wounds and sabre cuts are very rare. But at Spotsylvania there were plenty of bayonet wounds: and, no picture could give too exalted an idea of the galla the dispositions for a counter advance, and was about to move forward when Sheridan resumed command. From a letter in the National Tribune, May 26, 1887: Upton's charge, May 12th--J. W. Johnson, and Thomas Hassatt, of the 121st New York, received severe bayonet wounds Simon Mann, of Company G, of the same regiment, fell o