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Forty-Fourth New York Infantry--“Ellsworth's Avengers.”
Bartlett's Brigade —
Griffin's Division--Fifth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | | 28 | 28 | | 14 | 14 | 158 |
| | B | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 17 | 17 | 144 |
| | C | | 18 | 18 | | 15 | 15 | 137 |
| | D | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 16 | 16 | 162 |
| | E | | 18 | 18 | | 14 | 14 | 152 |
| | F | | 20 | 20 | | 16 | 16 | 166 |
| | G | | 21 | 21 | | 16 | 16 | 182 |
| | H | | 17 | 17 | | 13 | 13 | 161 |
| | I | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 13 | 13 | 156 |
| | K | 1 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 152 |
| Totals | 4 | 178 | 182 | 2 | 145 | 147 | 1,585 |
182 killed == 11.4 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 643, total of missing and captured, 79; died in Confederate prisons, 10.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Yorktown, Va. | 1 | Rappahannock Station, Va. | 3 |
| Hanover C. H., Va. | 34 | Wilderness, Va. | 12 |
| Gaines's Mill, Va. | 17 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 21 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 21 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| Manassas, Va. | 13 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 6 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 7 | Petersburg, Va. | 5 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 1 | Poplar Spring Church, Va. | 2 |
| Middleburg, Va. | 1 | Place unknown | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 36 | | |
Present, also, at Seven Days;
Antietam;
Shepherdstown;
Mine Run;
Totopotomoy; Weldon Road.
notes.--The enlisted men in this regiment were the finest of any in the service.
They were recruited from every county in the
State, in conformity to requirements calling for unmarried, able-bodied men, not over thirty years of age, not under five feet eight inches in height, and of good moral character.
The men were of a high order of intelligence, and when the regiment was organized it was found that the average age was twenty-two, and the average height five feet ten and one-half inches. The men wore a zouave uniform during the first year of their service.
At Hanover Court House, its first battle, the Forty-fourth made a gallant fight, losing 27 killed and 59 wounded; at
Gaines's Mill--
Lieutenant-Colonel Rice commanding — it lost 5 killed, 22 wounded, and 29 missing; and at
Malvern Hill, 11 killed, 84 wounded, and 4 missing, out of 225 who were engaged.
The regiment was then in
Butterfield's Brigade of
Morell's (1st) Division.
Two new companies (C and E) joined in October, 1862 (one of them composed of students from the State Normal School at
Albany), and took the place of two companies which had been consolidated with the others.
At
Gettysburg,--then in
Vincent's Brigade,
Barnes's Division,--the Forty-fourth was one of the first regiments to seize and hold
Little Round Top, meeting its greatest loss there; casualties, 20 killed, 82 wounded, and 3 missing; total, 111.
At
Manassas,--
Major Freeman Conner commanding,--the regiment lost 5 killed, 48 wounded, and 18 missing, out of 12 officers and 148 men in action; at the
Wilderness, it lost 4 killed and 63 wounded; and at
Spotsylvania, 8 killed, 48 wounded, and 9 missing. Mustered out September 24, 1864.
