Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses THRKK HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. MNF.TY-SKVKNTH NKNV VOKK INFANTRY "CONKLING RIFLES." BAXTER'S BRIGADE --ROBINSON'S DIVISION- FIRST CORPS. 0) COL. CHARLES WHEELOCK ; BVT. BKKI.-GKN. (Died). (2) Coi.. JOHN P. 8POFFORD; BVT. BUIO.-GEN. Total Enrollment. '9 187 201 2 <5 222 l8 9 222 2O4 220 20 7 219 2,105 K.&M.W. White Oak Swamp, Va. (1864) i Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864) i 2 Siege of Petersburg, Va 16 Weldon Railroad, Va 10 Hatcher's Run, Va Gravelly Run, Va 2 Five Forks, Va $ Picket Line, Va i Total of killed and wounded, 704 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 51. BATTLES. K.&M.W. BATTM - Manassas, Va 15 South Mountain, Md 3 Antietam, Md 37 Fredericksburg, Va 6 Gettysburg, Pa 16 Wilderness, Va 25 Spotsylvania, Va 14 North Anna, Va i Cold Harbor, Va 11 Present, also, at Cedar Mountain; Rappahannock; Thoroughfare Gap; Chancellorsville; Mine Run; Totopotomoy; White Oak Road ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Known also as the Third Oneida, being composed almost wholly of men from Oneida and Herki-mer counties. It was mustered in at Boonville, N. V., on Febniary 19, 1862, leaving that place on March i2th. It arrived at the National Capital on the zoth, where it went into camp at Fort Corcoran. In April, 1862, it was assigned to DuryeVs Brigade, and in May took the field with Ricketts's Division of McDowell's Corps. The Ninety-seventh was under fire at Cedar Mountain and at Rappahannock, losing a few wounded men in those en gagements ; but at Manassas, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Spofford, it was actively engaged, losing 7 killed, 42 wounded, and 62 captured or missing ; total, 111. The regiment suffered its severest loss at Antietam, where it *as commanded by Major Northrup, its casualties in that action amounting to 24 killed, 74 wounded, and 9 missing; total, 107. The Ninety-seventh — then in Robinson's Division, Baxter's Brigade — made a gallant and successful charge at Gettysburg, capturing the colors of the Twentieth North Carolina and 382 men. Its loss in that battle was 12 killed, 36 wounded, and 78 missing or captured. The regiment was transferred to the Fifth Corps in March, 1864, and served afterwards in that corps until the end of the war. It was hotly engaged at the battle of the Wilderness, in which it lost 15 killed, 71 wounded, and 13 missing ; and at Spotsylvania, where it lost 6 killed, 67 wounded, and 2 missing. In its various battles two color-bearers were killed and three wounded, while twenty more were killed or wounded in the color-guard. The Ninety-seventh served in the Second Division (First Corps), known successively as Ricketts's, Gibbon's, Robinson's, and Crawford's (5th A. C.). _06394
