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 The largest numl>er of officers killed in any infantry regiment in tho Union Annies is found in the Sixty-first Pennsylvania, of tho Sixth Corps, in which in officers were killed or mortally wounded during the war. Among the numl>er were three colonels : Col. Rippey was killed at Fair Oaks ; Col. Spear fell while leading a successful assault on Marye's Heights; and Col. Crosby, who had lost an arm at Fort Stevens, was killed in the final and victorious assault on Petersburg. The total loss of the Sixty-first in killed and died of wounds, was 1!» officers and 218 enlisted men ; total, 237. It was a gallant regiment and was bravely led, as its loss in officers clearly shows. The following list embraces every regiment which lost 16 or more officers killed during the war : INFANTRY. OMeert ftegiment. Division. Corps. A'illsJ. 61st Pennsylvania Getty's . Sixth 19 5th New Hampshire Barlow's Second. 18 12th Massachusetts Robinson's First. 18 48th New York . Terry's Tenth 18 73d New York . Hooker's Third 18 81st Pennsylvania Barlow's Second 18 145th Pennsylvania Barlow's Second 18 31st Maine . Potter's Ninth 18 20th Massachusetts Gibbon's Second. 17 14th Connecticut Gibbon's Second. 17 62d Pennsylvania Griffin's. Fifth . 17 63d Pennsylvania Birney's Third 17 5th Michigan ... Birney's Third 1»> ICth Massachusetts Humphreys's Third H', 61st New York . Barlow's Second. h> 126th New York . Barlow's Second ItJ 82d Ohio Schurz's . Eleventh. 1C 100th Pennsylvania Stevenson's . Ninth. 16 r.th Wisconsin AVadswi >rth's. First 16 HEAVY ARTILLERY. 1st Maine . Birney'f Second. Sth New York. Gibbon's Second. A heavy artillery regiment had just twice as many line officers as an infantry regiment. The largest regimental loss of officers killed in any one battle, occurred in the Seventh New Hampshire at the assault on Fort Wagner, the regiment losing 11 officers mortally wounded in that bloody affair. Among the killed was Col. Putnam, who fell i he had gained an entrance within the outer works of the fort. He was a graduate of Wes Point and an officer of the Regular Army ; like many other Regular officers he had received permission to accept the command of a volunteer regiment. The Twenty-second New York Infantry lost at Manassas 10 officers out of 24 present in action ; 9 of them were killed, among whom was the Lieutenant-Colonel, Gorton T. Thomas. The following list includes every infantry regiment in the service which lo> officers killed in any one engagement : _02320
