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 REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. Division. Cleburne's McLaws's Breckenridge's A. P. Hill's Regiment. Battle. 1st Arkansas . - - - Chickamauga 18th Mississippi . Antietam 9th Kentucky .. Chickamauga 14th South Carolina.-. Gaines's Mill 33d North Carolina, Chancellorsville A. P. Hill's 5th Alabama .. Malvern Hill D. H Hill's Hampton Legion... Fair Oaks Hood's 26th Alabama . Malvern Hill D. H. HiU's But the foregoing were only a few of the many instances of heavy percentages of loss. They represent only the few cases in which the official reports happened to mention the number of effectives taken into action, and which, again, happened to appear before the order was issued, forbidding any further mention in official reports of the strength in action. Equally surprising percentages are found in the brigade reports :— BRIGADE LOSSES. Brigade. Battle. Garnett's (Va.) Gettysburg-Perry's (Fla.) Gettysburg Wofford's (Texas)- .... Antietam Anderson's (S. C.) fSeven Days Pryor's fSeven Days Wilcox's (Ala.) .. fSeven Days Benning's (Ga.) Chickamauga Bate's Chickamauga Ramseur's (N. C.) Chancellorsville Featherston's (Miss.) _. fSeven Days Lane's (N. C.) Gettysburg Donelson's (Terni.) Stone's River Gregg's Chickamauga Clayton's (Ala.) Chickamauga Semmes's - - Antietam Daniels's (N. C.)--- -- Gettysburg Rodes's (Ala.). Malvern Hill Division. Present. Pickett's 1,427 Anderson's 700 Hood's 854 Longstreet's 1,250 Longstreet's 1,400 Longstreet's 1,850 Hood's 900 Stewart's 1,187 D. H. Hill's 1,509 Longstreet's 1,350 Fender's 1,355 Cheatham's 1,529} B. R. Johnson's 1,352 Stewart's 1,446 McLaws's 709 Rodes's 2,100 D. H. Hill's 1,027 These terrible losses were not confined to regiments and brigades ; in some divisions the men were cut down equally fast throughout the entire ranks of the command. During the Seven Days' Battle, Longstreet's Division lost in the actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale 766 killed, 3,435 wounded and 237 missing ; total, 4,438,—out of 8,831 engaged, or, 50.2 per cent. Nor was this an uncommon loss. The official reports of Confederate Division-Generals, though lacking the figures necessary for a statement of an exact percentage, often indicate plainly a division-loss in killed and wounded of over forty per cent. Through four years of desperate war and its score of battles these excessive percentages divided and subdivided the ranks, until the end came and with it a division which was merely a thing of shreds and patches. 'Theofficial report for Garnett's brigade says : "It is feared from the information received that the majority of those reported missing are either killed or wounded." tThis loss occurred in the two actions at Gaines's Mill and Glendale. ^General Donelson stated the number in his official report at " about 1,400 men." _16570
