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It may be of interest to know the maximum of percentage, as based on the total of killed, wounded and missing, instead of on the killed and mortally wounded alone. Such percentages, however, are apt to be unsatisfactory, as the missing includes the captured men. In the following table the missing are mostly, if not all, killed or wounded men.

maximum percentage of casualties.

Regiment. Battle. Corps. Engaged. Killed. 1Wounded. Missing. Per Ct.
1st Minnesota Gettysburg Second 2622 47 168 -- 82.0
141st Pennsylvania Gettysburg Third 198 25 103 21 75.7
101st New York Manassas Third 168 6 101 17 73.8
25th Massachusetts Cold Harbor Eighteenth 310 53 139 28 70.0
36th Wisconsin (4 Cos.) Bethesda Church Second 240 20 108 38 69.0
20th Massachusetts Fredericksburg Second 238 25 138 -- 68.4
8th Vermont Cedar Creek Nineteenth 156 17 66 23 67.9
81st Pennsylvania Fredericksburg Second 261 15 141 20 67.4
12th Massachusetts Antietam First 334 49 165 10 67.0
1st Maine H. A. Petersburg Second 950 115 489 28 66.5
9th Louisiana Colored Milliken's Bend ------- 300 62 130 -- 64.0
111th New York Gettysburg Second 390 58 177 14 63.8
24th Michigan Gettysburg First 496 69 247 3 63.7
5th New Hampshire Fredericksburg Second 303 20 154 19 63.6
9th Illinois Shiloh ------- 578 61 300 5 63.3
9th New York (8 Cos.) Antietam Ninth 373 45 176 14 63.0
15th New Jersey Spotsylvania Sixth 432 75 159 38 62.9
82d New York Gettysburg Second 305 45 132 15 62.9
15th Massachusetts Gettysburg Second 239 23 97 28 61.9
69th New York Antietam Second 317 44 152 -- 61.8
51st Illinois Chickamauga Twentieth 209 18 92 18 61.2
19th Indiana Manassas First 423 47 168 44 61.2
121st New York Salem Church Sixth 453 48 173 55 60.9
5th New York Manassas Fifth 490 79 170 48 60.6
93d New York Wilderness Second 433 42 213 5 60.0
2d Wisconsin Gettysburg First 302 26 155 4 59.9
41st Illinois Jackson Sixteenth 338 27 135 40 59.7
148th Pennsylvania Gettysburg Second 210 19 101 5 59.5
15th Indiana Missionary Ridge Fourth 334 24 175 -- 59.5
7th Ohio Cedar Mountain Twelfth 307 31 149 2 59.2
80th New York Gettysburg First 287 35 111 24 59.2
63d New York Antietam Second 341 35 165 2 59.2
3d Wisconsin Antietam Twelfth 340 27 173 -- 58.8
114th New York Opequon Nineteenth 315 21 164 -- 58.7
59th New York Antietam Second 381 48 153 23 58.7
26th Ohio Chickamauga Twenty-first 362 27 140 45 58.5
2d Wisconsin Manassas First 511 53 213 32 58.3
3d Maine Gettysburg Third 210 18 59 45 58.0
17th U. S. Inf. (7 Cos.) Gettysburg Fifth 260 25 118 7 57.6
126th New York Gettysburg Second 402 40 181 10 57.4
45th Pennsylvania Cold Harbor Ninth 315 18 141 22 57.4
49th Pennsylvania Spotsylvania Sixth 478 50 180 44 57.3
6th U. S. Colored Chaffin's Farm Eighteenth 367 41 160 8 56.9
15th Massachusetts Antietam Second 606 65 255 24 56.7
26th New York Fredericksburg First 300 23 136 11 56.6
14th Indiana Antietam Second 320 30 150 -- 56.2
96th Illinois Chickamauga Reserve 401 39 134 52 56.1
26th Pennsylvania Gettysburg Third 382 30 176 7 55.7
11th New Jersey Gettysburg Third 275 17 124 12 55.6
1st Michigan Manassas Fifth 320 33 114 31 55.6
19th Indiana Gettysburg First 288 27 133 5 55.5
12th New Hampshire Cold Harbor Eighteenth 301 23 129 15 55.4
61st Pennsylvania Fair Oaks Fourth 574 68 152 43 55.4
25th Illinois Chickamauga Twentieth 337 10 171 24 54.9
14th Ohio Chickamauga Fourteenth 449 35 167 43 54.5
2d New Hampshire Gettysburg Third 354 20 137 36 54.5
8th Kansas Chickamauga Twentieth 406 30 165 25 54.1
16th Maine Fredericksburg First 427 27 170 34 54.0
16th United States Stone's River Fourteenth 308 16 133 16 53.5
55th Illinois Shiloh -------- 512 51 197 27 53.7
69th New York Fredericksburg Second 238 10 95 23 53.7
35th Illinois Chickamauga Twentieth 299 17 130 13 53.5
22d Indiana Chaplin Hills Fourteenth 303 49 87 23 52.4
11th Illinois Fort Donelson -------- 500 70 181 6 50.1

1 Including the mortally wounded.

2 Action of July 2d--8 companies engaged; total casualties at Gettysburg were 224.

3 In addition to the killed and wounded there were 47 missing.

4 In addition to the killed and wounded there were 52 missing.

5 In addition to the killed and wounded there were 50 missing.

6 In addition to the killed and wounded there were 88 missing.

1888.

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