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 Officers Regiment. Battle. Division. Corps. Killed. 7th New Hampshire Fort Wagner Seymour's Tenth 11 7th New York Fredericksburg Hancock's Second 9 22d New York Manassas Hatch's First 9 59th New York Antietam Sedgwick's Second 9 145th Pennsylvania Fredericksburg Hancock's Second 9 43d Illinois Shiloh McClernand's 8 87th Indiana Chickamauga Brannan's Fourteenth 8 1st Michigan Manassas MorelPs Fifth 8 14th New Hampshire Opequon Grover's Nineteenth 8 24th Michigan Gettysburg Wadsworth's First 8 120th New York Gettysburg Humphreys's Third 8 In addition, mention should be made of the loss of officers in the heavy artillery at certain battles. The First Maine H. A. lost 12 officers, killed or wounded, at Spotsylvania, May 19th, of whom 0 were killed or mortally wounded ; and at Petersburg, June 18th, the same regiment lost 32 officers, killed or wounded, of whom 10 lost their lives. In the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, t) officers were killed at Cold Harbor. But the large number of extra officers allowed these regiments will not admit of their classification with the infantry regiments just mentioned. There is a remarkable difference between the loss of officers in battle and by disease, as compared with that of the enlisted men. In battle, one officer was killed for every 16 enlisted men ; but, among the deaths from disease, one officer died to every 72 men, and in the colored regiments, one officer to every 215 men. The officers had better facilities for purchasing food, and were furnished with better quarters while in camp ; but in an active campaign, in bivouac or on the march, they encountered substantially the same exposure and privation ; they were exposed to the same storms and their food was equally scanty. There was not enough of difference in the fare to account for this remarkable difference in the death-rate. It might account for some of it, but for the greater part the reason must be looked for elsewhere. The general officers never hesitated in time of battle to share the danger with the men whenever it became necessary. The gallantry with which they were wont to expose them selves is fully evidenced by the long list of those who were killed. GENERAL OFFICERS KILLED IN ACTION. ARMY COMMANDERS. Major-General James B. McPherson, Army of Tennessee, Killed at Atlanta. CORPS COMMANDERS. Major-General Joseph K. Mansfield, 12th A. C., Killed at Antietam. Major-General John F. Reynolds, 1st A. C., Gettysburg. Major-General John Sedgwick, (ith A. C., Spotsylvania. DIVISION COMMANDERS. Major-General Isaac I. Stevens . _Killed at Chantilly. Major-General Philip Kearny Chantilly. Major-General Jesse L. Reno . South Mountain. Major-General Israel B. Richardson* Antietam. Major-General Amiel W. Whipple* Chancellorsville. : Mortally wounded. _02348
