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REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

It may be of interest to know the maximum of percentage, as based on the total of killed, ivounded 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.

1st Minnesota 141st Pennsylvania 101st New York 25th Massachusetts 36th Wisconsin (4 Cos.) 20th Massachusetts

8th Vermont 81st Pennsylvania 12th Massachusetts

1st Maine H. A.

9th Louisiana Colored lllth New York 24th Michigan

5th New Hampshire

9th Illinois

9th New York (8 Cos.) 15th New Jersey 15th Massachusetts 69th New York 51st Illinois 19th Indiana 121st New York

5th New York 93d New York

2d Wisconsin 41st Illinois 148th Pennsylvania 15th Indiana

7th Ohio 80th New York 63d New York

3d Wisconsin 114th New York 59th New York 26th Ohio

2d Wisconsin

3d Maine

17th U. S. Inf. (7 Cos.) 126th New York 45th Pennsylvania

Battle.

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Manassas

Cold Harbor

Bethesda Church

Fredericksburg

Cedar Creek

Fredericksburg

Antietam

Petersburg

Milliken's Bend

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Fredericksburg

Shiloh

Antietam

Spotsylvania

Gettysburg

Antietam

Chickamauga

Manassas

Salem Church

Manassas

Wilderness

Gettysburg

Jackson

Gettysburg

Corps.

Second

Third

Third

Eighteenth

Second

Second

Nineteenth

Second

First

Second

•Engaged. Killed. * Wounded. Missing.

Second

First

Second

Ninth

Sixth

Second

Second

Twentieth

First

Sixth

Fifth

Second

First

Sixteenth

Second Missionary Ridge Fourth Cedar Mountain Twelfth

Gettysburg

Antietam

Antietam

Opequon

Antietam

Chickamauga

Manassas

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Cold Harbor

First

Second

Twelfth

Nineteenth

Second

Twenty-first

First

Third

Fifth

Second

Ninth

262f

198

168

310

240

238

156

261

334

950

300

390

496

303

578

373

432

239

317

209

423

453

490

433

302

338

210

334

307

287

341

340

315

381

362

511

210

260

402

315

47

25

6

53

20 25 17 15 49 115 62 58 69 20 61 45 75 23 44 18 47 48 79 42 26 27 19 24 31 35 35 27 21 48 27 53 18 25 40 18

168 103 101 139 108 138

66 141 165 489 130 177 247 154 300 176 159

97 152

92 168 173 170 213 155 135 101 175 149 111 165 173 164 153 140 213

59 118 181 141

21 17

28 38

23

20 10

28

14

t

19

5

14 38

28

18 44

55

48

5

40 5

2 24

9,

23 45 32 45

7 10

22

Per Ct.

82.0

75.7

73.8

70.0

69.0

68.4

67.9

67.4

67.0

66.5

64.0

63.8

63.7

63.6

63.3

63.0

62.9

61.9

61.8

61.2

61.2

60.9

60.6

60.0

59.9

59.7

59.5

59.5

59.2

59.2

59.2

58.8

58.7

58.7

58.5

58.3

58.0

57.6

57.4

57.4

•Including the mortally wounded. tAction of July ad-8 companies engaged ; total casualties at Gettysburg were 224

i and wounded there were 47 missing §In addition to the killed and wounded there were 52 missing.'

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