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 consisting of five brigades—21 batteries in all. This Artillery Corps of the Army of the Potomac was under command of General Henry J. Hunt. Prior to the adoption of corps organizations, the various armies of the Union consisted of divisions numbered in the order of their formation. This plan was adhered to in the Western armies until December, 18Gi>. The Army of the Ohio contained several divisions, each division containing three brigades. But these brigades were numt>ered without reference to their divisions, and hence, in the roster of the Army of Ohio, at Shiloh, we find, for instance, that the Fourth Division—Nelson's—was composed of the loth, l!»th and -J-Jnd Brigades; and at Perryville, in the Eleventh Division -- Sheridan's - the brigades were not the 1st, 2d, and :kl, but the 35th, 30th and 37th Brigades. The Army of the Tennessee contained six divisions at Shiloh, and the Army of the Mississippi fought at luka without any corps formation. This lack of proper organization did not last long, and in 18(53 the Western armies took the field with corps organizations similar to those which General McClellan had instituted in the Army of the Potomac, and which were retained during the remainder of the war. KIL'ST ('( HvTS. CEDAR MOUNTAIN ; RAPPAHANNOCK ; GAINESVILLE ; GROVETON ; SECOND BULL RUN ; SOUTH MOUNTAIN ; ANTIETAM ; FREDERICKSBURG ; FrrzHuGH's CROSSING ; CHANCELLORSVILLE ; GET TYSBURG ; MINE RUN. The First Corps, when at its maximum, contained 4<> regiments of infantry and 12 bat teries of light artillery. It was organized in March, ISttt, with three divisions, —King's, Mri 'all's, ami I-Yank lin'-. Genera] [rwin McDowell was placed! rnmand. Wlien Gen eral McClellan moved the Army to the Peninsula, in April, 18<>2, McDowell's corps was left in Northern Virginia. Franklin's Division was ordered, soon after, to the Peninsula, where it was used in forming the Sixth Corps, its place in McDowell's command l>eing taken by Ricketts'Division. In June, McCall's Division--the famous Pennsylvania Reserves — was also sent to the Peninsular Army, but upon the return of McClellan's forces to Washington, the Reserves rejoined McDowell, and fought under him at Second Bull Run. During the absence of the Army of the Potomac, McDowell was engaged in an active campaign which culminated in the battles around Manassas, the first general engagement in which the corps participated ; loss, 595 killed, 2,853 wounded, and 2,021 missing, out of alxmt 18,500 effective men. During the short time in which the army was under Pope, McDowell's Corps was officially designated as the Third Corps, Army of Virginia; but upon General McClellan's restoration to command it resumed its former and proper title, —the First Army Corps. While on the Maryland campaign the Corps was commanded by General Hooker, and the divisions by Generals Hatch, Ricketts and Meade ; it numbered 14,s50 men. It was prom inently engaged at South Mountain, and also at Antietam, where it oijened the battle, its casualties in that engagement amounting to 417 killed, 2,051 wounded and 1-22 missing. Gen-eralJohn F. Reynolds was in command at Fredericksburg, with Doubleday, Gibbon and Meade as division generals ; loss, 347 killed, i,4i >( .» wounded, and 5(51 missing ; total, 3,337. After this battle, the division of Pennsylvania Reserves -Meade's (3d) Division-withdrawn from the front, and ordered to Washington that it might rest and recruit. This division, in addition to the battles of the First Corps, had served previously on the Peninsula, where it had encountered hard fighting and heavy losses. While on the Peninsula, the Re-serves were attached to the Fifth Corps. When the division rejoined McDowell's Corps, at Manassas, it was with depleted ranks which were still further thinned by its subsequent battles. After taking its departure for Washington it never rejoined the First Corps, its B _02899
