News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-21


all Sc men killed, SOP wounded and 12o
Cxilled or woundeD missing. One COM
pany went in the first day with officers
and 81 men, and all the officers and So men
were killed or wounded.
At Fair Oaks Gen. John B. Gordon's
Sixth Alabama lost 81 killed, 277 wounded
500 out of 632. In the same battle the
Fourth North Carolina lost a. killed and
$50 wounded-353 out of 67S engaged. At
Gaines Mills the First South Carolina
Rifles lost 81 killed, 234 wounded-3l5 out
of 537 engaged. At Stones River the
Eighth Tennessee had Al killed and 265
wounded-31j out of Az engaged.
The percentage of loss for the whole war
cannot be given for Confederate regiments.
Four lost over 30 per cent. in single en-
gagements, as follows: First Texas, Antie-
tam-present, 225; killed, 45; wounded, al;
per cent, S2.3. Twenty-first Georgia, Ma
nassas Second Bull Run)-present, 242;
killed, IS; wounded 146; per cent, IS.
Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Gettysburg
present, $40; killed, IS; wounded, SOP; per
cent, III Sixth Mississippi, Shiloh
present, 425; killed, 81; wounded, 239; per
cent, 10.5 Fifty-three Confederate reSi-
ments lost 80 per cent. and upward. In
the Union armies complete records display
the startling facts in all particulars. The
infantry regiment at the head of the roll
of honor for killed and mortally wounded
is the Fifth New Hampshire. During four
years service it lost in action 295 men.
The second highest, the Eighty-third Penn
sylvania, lost 2S2 men in action. The Sew
enth Wisconsin lost $50 the Fifth Michi-
gan 253 and the Twentieth Massachusetts
$50 The maximum of these regiments
was 1000 men and the total enrolment
less than 1000.
At the head of the list for maximum
percentages of enrolment killed stands the
Second Wisconsin. This regiment enrolled
1908 men, of whom 23S, or 1911 per cent,
were killed. The next is the First Maine
Heavy Artillery, which enrolled 2,202, OF
whom 423, or 1872 per cent, were killed. The
Fifty-seventh Massachusetts, enrolled 1,052,
of whom 201, or 1871 per cent, were killed.
The Union regiment at the head of per-
centages killed in one action is the First
Minnesota which lost at Gettysburg 3 per
cent. killed, "a percentage unequaled in
military annals" Col. Fox declares. The
next is the Fifteenth New Jersey, which
lost 20 per cent. of its men at SpottSylvania.
The Twenty-fifth Massachusetts went in
at Cold Harbor with 80 men and lost a
killed within fifteen minutes This was
a per cent.
The Confederates said the regiment strug-
gled ahead for a time under u Calling fire
and then suddenly disappeared. Only 62
were left for duty The One Hundred and
Forty-first Pennsylvania lost 24 per cent.
at Gettysburg, and the Fifth New York
(Duryee's Zouayes) lost % per cent. at Sec
ond Bull Run. This loss, liz out of 400,
was the highest death list in one battle of
any infantry regiment in the war. There
were twenty regiments in the Army of the
Potomac and three in the west that lost 10
per cent. and upward IN killed. Forty-one
infantry regiments and nine of heavy ar
tilIery in the Army of the Potomac lost
over 200 men killed in action, and in the
western armies four infantry regiments
belong to the roll. GEORGE l.. kILMER.