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REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED.

*Enlisted for nine months. tEnlisted for one year. ^Hundred-days' men.

the 18th of April.* On the following day, the 26th Pennsylvania and the 6th Massachusetts arrived at Baltimore en-route for the Capital, and in the fight with the mob in the streets of that city the 26th Pennsylvania lost one man killed and several wounded.

The nine-months regiments from Pennsylvania furnished some noteworthy items to the casualty lists of the war. For instance :

Killed and Wounded.

184

REGIMENT.

I25th Pennsylvania I3oth Pennsylvania 13151 Pennsylvania I32d Pennsylvania

BATTLE. Antietam Antietam Fredericksburg Antietam

Killed and Wounded.

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178

175 152

REGIMENT.

i33d Pennsylvania i34th Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania^

BATTLE.

Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Gettysburg Fort Fisher

148

233t 191

The greatest battle of the war was fought on the soil of Pennsylvania, and by a well-ordered fortune the first volley to greet the invading foe flashed from the rifles of a Pennsylvania regiment. To the 5 6th Pennsylvania Infantry, Colonel J. W. Hofman commanding, belongs the historic honor of firing the first volley on that field. The skirmishers of Buford's Cavalry were earlier on the field, but were only holding the ground until the infantry

*IIist. Penn. Vols.: S. P. Bates. tNot including 102, missing or captured. jEnlisted for one year.

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