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 403 Captain Easton fell beside a gun at Gaines's Mill, shouting, " No ! we never surrender," in reply to the demand of the victors to give up his battery.* At Gettysburg, young Gushing shouts to his general that he will give them "one shot more," and falls dead as Pickett's men surge up to the muzzles of his pieces. Of the noted batteries mentioned in the accompanying list of casualties, Kern, Woodruff, Burnham, Hazzard, DeHart, Dimmick, Rorty, Hazlitt, Leppien, McGilvery, Geary (of Knap's), Simonson, Erickson and Whitaker (of Bigelow's)--were killed in action. When closely pressed by a charge of the enemy, the gunners, though unarmed, would often defend their pieces with rammers and handspikes used as clubs. In the charge of the Louisiana Tigers on Ricketts's Pennsylvania Battery, at Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, one of the assailants fell dead in the battery, killed by a stone which was bin-led at him. Some of the light batteries sustained a remarkable loss in horses, killed in battle. Bigelow lost, at Gettysburg, 50 horses killed and 15 wounded, according to the official report of Lieutenant Milton, who brought the battery off the field.f Lieutenant Sears states in a newspaper article that the Eleventh Ohio Battery lost, at luka, "42 horses killed upon the field, and (a coincidence' 42 so disabled from wounds that they had to be turned over, unfit for service." Lieutenant Snow, First Maine Battery, in his official report for Cedar Creek, states that he "lost 40 horses killed in harness." The maximum losses of horses killed in any one action seems to have been reached in these instances ;^ at least, a careful examination of official reports fails to show any greater. The following list of remarkable losses in the light artillery, during the last war, embraces every instance in which a battery lost twenty or more killed and wounded, in any one action, the mortally wounded being included with the wounded. MAXIMUM LOSSES OF LIGHT ARTILLERY Ix ANY ONE ENGAGEMENT. Synonym. Battery. "Sands's" .. llth Ohio «Q~O,^ » ir e 4t h United States v «, Seeley's".. K,{ Campbell's ". B,§ 4th United States Cushing's".. A, Burnham's". H, Parsons's " .. I, Stewart's" .. B, SangerV . E,|[ Langdon's" M, "Arnold's".. A,§ "Wood's". A, tt <( tt 4th United States 5th United States 4th United States 4th United States 3d United States 1st United States 1st Rhode Island 1st Illinois ' Burrows's " 14th Ohio Randolph's". E, 1st Rhode Island Bigelow's " 9th Massachusetts Leppien's" _^[ 5th Maine Battle. luka Chancellorsville \ntietam Gettysburg Chickamauga Chaplin Hills Gettysburg Olustee Olustee Gettysburg Shiloh Shiloh Gettysburg Gettysburg Chancellorsville Killed. 16 9 6 13 10 2 11 4 3 4 4 3 8 6 IVoundcd. 35 38 31 32 18 19 31 22 22 28 26 26 26 18 22 Missing, 3 13 lo 3 6 6 1 1 2 54 45 40 38 44 39 36 39 32 32 30 30 30 28 28 *Batee's History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. tGeneral Hunt, Chief of Artillery, jn an article in the Century Magazine, states that Bigelow lost 80 horses killed or wounded, out of 88 horses. JA tabulated report of artillery losses at Stone's River (official), mentions some large figures; but as in each case, the battery captured and held by the enemy, it would appear that the captured horses had been erroneously included in the column with the killed. ^Appears twice in this list. 'Including loss in the detail from " Les Enfans Perdus." ^Appears three times in this list _14562
