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 THE SECOND Cows. C7 monts. This corps was to l>e designated the First, with General llancock in command, but the war closed Iwfore a corps organization was fully effected, and Ix'foro any of tho nine regiments thus raised wore ready for the field, leaving the gallant old First in undivided possession of all the laurels that clustered around that name. SECOND CORPS. SIEGE OP YORKTOWX; FAIR OAKS; OAK GROVK; ({.VISES' MILL; SAVAGE STATION ; PEACH ORCHARD; WHITE OAK SWAMP; GLKNDALK; MAJ.VKRX HILL; ANTIKTAM ; FRKD- ERICKSHURG ; ClIANCELLORSVlLLE ; GKTTYSHU1W ; BuiSTOK STATION ; MlXE RUN ; MoRTOX's FORD; WILDERNESS; COKBIN'S BRIDGE; Po RIVKR; SI-OTSYLVAXIA ; NORTH ANNA; TOTOFO-TOMOY ; COLD HARBOR; ASSAULT ox PETERSBURG, JUNE ISTII ; JERUSALEM ROAD; STRAW BERRY PLAINS; DEEP BOTTOM; REAM'S STATION; POPLAR SPUING CHURCH; BOYDTON ROAD ; HATCHER'S RUN ; SIEGE OF PETERSBURG ; WHITE OAK ROAD ; SUTHERLAND STATION ; SAILOR'S CREEK ; FARMVILLE ; APPOMATTOX. The second corps was prominent hy reason of its longer and continuous service, larger organization, hardest fighting, and greatest number of casualties. Within its ranks w;us the regiment which sustained the largest percentage of loss in any one action ; also, the regiment which sustained the greatest numerical loss in any one action ; als"o, the regiment which sustained the greatest numerical loss during its term of service; while, of the one hundred regiments in the Union Army which lost the most men in battle, thirty-five of them l>elonged to the Second Corps. The corps was organized under General Orders No. l»»l, March 13, 18<>2, which assigned General Edwin V. Simmer to its command, and Generals Richardson, Scdgwick, and Blenker to the command of its divisions. Within three weeks of its organization the corps moved Avith McClellan's Army to the Peninsula, excepting Blenker's Division, which was withdrawn on March 31st from McClellan's command, and ordered to ree'nforce Fremont's troops in Western Virginia. Blenker's Division never rejoined the corps, — in fact, it had never really joined. The remaining two divisions, which constituted the corps, numbered 21,500 men, of whom 18,000 were present for duty. The first general engagement of the corps occurred at Fair Oaks, where Simmer's prompt and soldierly action brought the corps on the field in time to retrieve a serious disaster, and change a rout into a victory. The casualties of the two divisions in that battle amounted to 196 killed, 899 wounded, and 90 missing. In the Seven Days' Battle it lost 2<>1 killed. 1.195 wounded, and 1,024 missing. UIKHI the withdrawal of the Army from before Rkjimond, it moved to the support of Pope at Second Bull Run, arriving on that field in time to go into position at Chantilly, but was not engaged. The corps then marched on the Maryland campaign, during which French's (Third) Division was added. At Antietam the corps was prominently engaged, its casualties amount ing to more than double that of any other corps on the field. Out of 15,000 effectives, it lost 883 killed, 3,859 wounded, and 390 missing ; total, 5,138. Nearly one-half of these casualties occurred in Sedgwick's (Second) Division, in its bloody and ill-planned advance on the Dunker church, an affair which was under Simmer's personal direction. The Irish Brigade, of Richardson's (First) Division, also sustained a terrible loss in its fight at the "Bloody Lane," but, at the same time, inflicted a greater one on the enemy. General Richardson was killed in this battle, and General Sedgwick received three wounds. The next battle was at Fredericksburg. In the meantime Simmer had l>een promoted to the command of a Grand Division — Second and Ninth Corps—and General Darius N. Couch, _02920
