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 LOSSES SUSTAINED BY EACH STATE. TABLE A. -CONTINUED. TOTAL DEATHS AND PERCENTAGES BY STATES. *Not including loss in th« three Massachusetts colored rudiments, which ware organized and officered exclusively by that State ; their enrollment and loss is included with that of the white troops from Massachusetts. tThe number of men in the Regular Army was about 07.000; in the Veteran Reserve Corps, 60,508; Hancock's Veteran Corps, 10.H3.S; Ui.ited States Sharpshooters (Berdan's two regiments!, 2,570; other organizations of white volunteers, about 8,500. All these (except about 20,000 Regulars who were in service at the outbreak of the war) are included in the number of men furnished by the various States, but the •net share furnished by each State is not known. For this reason, the actual percentage of loss by each State is somewhat larger than the apparent one. } Includes 35 deaths in the Engineer Battalion. enlisted for three years, Many of the three-years' men who were discharged for physical disability or other reasjns, enlisted again in other regiments before the war had closed, and thus were counted twice. Over 300,000 men enlisted just before the close of the war, few of whom, if any, participated in any active service. It is doubtful if there were 2,000,000 individual- actually in service during the war. The smaller percentage of killed belonging to some States does not necessarily imply any lack of fighting qualities, but rather that the troops from such States were more largely assigned to post or garrison duty, and that a smaller proportion of their contingent was engaged at the front. Still, in the heavy percentage of deaths in battle credited to Vermont and New Hampshire, one cannot help-but trace a connection with the hard and continuous fighting which 1VH to the lot of the Vermont Brigade, and the Fifth New Hampshire. The number of officers and men in the Regular Army among whom the casualties occurred—as stated in Table A--is placed officially at (57,000, and the percentage of deaths is based on that number. But this number includes enlistments after the fighting had ceased, _15714
