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 these the flag-bearer was shot, and the captain brought out the flag himself.* This loss of the 26th North Carolina, at Gettysburg, was the severest regimental loss during the war. The next instance, in point of numerical loss, is that of the 6th Alabama — Colonel John B. Gordon — at Fair Oaks. This regiment was then in Rodes's Brigade of D. H. Hill's Divi sion, which in this fight was pitted against Naglee's Brigade of Casey's Division. The regi ment lost 91 killed, 277 wounded, and 5 missing ; total, 373, out of about 632 engaged. In the same battle, and in D. H. Hill's Division also, the Fourth North Carolina, of G. B. Anderson's Brigade, sustained a loss of 77 killed, 286 wounded, and 6 missing ; total, 369, out of 678 engaged. At Gaines's Mill the First South Carolina Rifles, Gregg's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, charged a battery which was supported by the Duryee Zouaves. The Rifles lost in this affair, 81 killed, 234 wounded, and 4 missing ; total, 3113, out of 537 engaged. At Stone's River the Eighth Tennessee, of Donelson's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, lost 41 killed and 265 wounded ; total, 306, out of 4-U engaged. The 8th sustained the principal part of this loss while engaged with some troops of Sheridan's Division, and in a successful charge on Houghtaliiig's Battery, in which they captured several pieces of artillery from that and other batteries. The severest losses are not always the largest numerically. To understand the extent of a regimental loss in any particular battle, one must know the number of men taken into action by the regiment. Many of the Confederate Colonels were intelligent and thoughtful enough in making their battle reports, to mention in connection with the casualties, the number of men engaged, without which all such statements convey no definite idea. By doing so they have, in many instances, secured for their regiments an honored place in history which otherwise would have been lost. The following table of percentages was compiled from the official reports of Confederate regimental commandants : REMARKABLE PERCENTAGES OF LOSS IN CONFEDERATE REGIMENTS AT PARTICULAR ENGAGEMENTS. From the magazine •' Our Living and our Dead." tlncludinjr the mortally wounded. ;l« addition to the f>8ft killed and wounded, this resriment lost 120 missing, many of whom were killed §Gen. Ewell, m his official report, states that the 3d N. C. Battalion lost 200 killed and wounded out of 240 present. _16508
