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 MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE OF CASUALTIES. 37 Regiment. 49th Pennsylvania Oth U. S. Colored 15th Massachusetts 20th New York 14th Indiana 90th Illinois 26th Pennsylvania llth New Jersey 1st Michigan 19th Indiana 12th New Hampshire Olst Pennsylvania 25th Illinois 14th Ohio 2d New Hampshire sth Kansas 10th Maine I Oth United States 55th Illinois 09th New York 35th Illinois 22d Indiana llth Illinois Battle. Spotsylvania Chaftin's Farm Antietam Fredericksbuig Antietam Chickamauga Gettysburg ( it-ii \ -inn- Manassas Gettysburg Cold Harbor Fair Oaks Chickamauga Chickamauga Gettysburg Chickamauga Fredericksbuig Stone's River Shiloh Fredericksburg Chickamauga Chaplin Hills I'rr Ct. 57.3 56.9 56.7 56.6 56.2 56.1 55.7 55.6 55.6 55.5 55.4 55.4 54.9 54.5 54.5 54.1 54.0 53.8 53.7 53.7 53.5 52.4 50.1 Fort Donelson There are other instances which deserve a place in tin- pivrrdiug list, hut are omitted ;i-it is impossible to ascertain definitely the number of men engaged. It is well to pause here, and consider \vhat these figures mean ; to think of what such extraordinary percentages imply. Perhaps their significance will l>e better understood when compared with some extraordinary loss in foreign wars; some well known instance which may serve as a standard of measurement. Take the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Its extraordinary loss has been made a familiar feature of heroic verse and story in every land, until the whole world has heard of the gallant Six Hundred and their ride into the Valley of Death. Now, as the Light Brigade accomplished nothing in this action,— merely executed an order which was a blunder,— it must be that it was the danger and its attendant loss which inspired the interest in that historic ride. What was the loss ? The Light Brigade took 673 officers and men into that charge ; they lost 113 killed and 134 wounded § ; total, 247, or 30.7 per cent. The heaviest loss in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian war occurred in the Sixteenth Infantry (Third Westphalian), at Mars La Tour. Like all German regiments of the line it numbered 3,000 men. As this battle was the first in which it was engaged,—occurring within a few days of the opening of the campaign,—it carried 3,000 men into action. It lost 509 killed and mortally wounded, 019 wounded, and 305 missing !; total. 1484, or 49.4 per cent. The Garde-Schutzen Battalion, 1,000 strong, lost at Metz, August 18th. 162 killed and mortally wounded, 294 wounded, and 5 missing; total, 401, or 40.1 per cent. A comparison of these percentages with those of the Union regiments in certain battles just cited will give some idea of the desperate character of the fighting during the American Civil War. 'Including the mortally wounded. + In addition to the killed and wound* Jin ji'lcUti.ui to the killed and wounded th.>n> wero RS raiMtaff. (Dr. Engel: Director des knniglich preussis«:h«n statistisohen Bureaus. _02275
