The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-06-15

charge is typical The Seventh went
in after other brigades had been re-
pulsed in front of the stone wall so that
it did not receive the fierce outburst Of
Confederate fire, but in twenty minutes,
OF at the outside thirty minutes, out OF
twenty-five officers in the regiment ten
were killed and eight wounded. and ont
Of 45O men 24O were killed and wound
ed. All of these casualties came from
bullets fred from the stone wall. This
loss in officers killed was never exceed
ed Dut once in the whole civil war. AMI
that was in the case Of the Seventh
New Hampshire at the storming Of
Fort Wagner. In that affair eleven Of
acers Of this regiment were killed out
right
In the attack upon the stone wall the
Seventh Regiment fought with Han
cocks division This division was
brought in as a supporting column to
the initial attack. II consisted of eigh-
teen regiments. and there were nineteen
regimental commanders shot down and
disabled in one hour. Others were hit,
but kept the field. In the brigade of
Col. Caldwell, 10 which the Seventh
Regiment belonged, there We're l16 OIL
GERS present. slXty-two of whom We're
killed or wounded. Gen. Hancock's d.
vision lost 2,O29 killed and wounded out
Of 1891 paper strength; that equals -
per cent. Caldwelrs brigade numbered
1857 on paper, and lost $50 killed and
wounded-that is 10 say, 30 per cent
In a forlorn hope attack upon log
breastwOrks at Petersburg in 1864 the
First Maine heavy artillery carried SD
men in line and lost go killed and
wounded in a rush that kept them I'M
der fire not TO exceed seven minutes.
AT Gettysburg during a crisis, the First
Minnesota was called upon to charge a
moving line of Confederates and cap
ture its colors. in order To stagger the
assailants, who were marching upon
Federal batteries. The Confederates
, held their fire until the daring Yankees
q were close up. and 30 of the Mime
sotans out of 262 were struck down
unon a few square yards of earth. JUS
2 at the point of contact. In the SECOND
battle Of Bull Run. 1862. Duryee's zou
{ ayes stood up in front of a batter!
which was being mobbed by Confeder
2 ate troops and left 119 dead companions
b. stretched in regular rows around whee
2 ruts and trail prints on the spot wher,
4 the guns had stood The regiment mum
r bered 40 at the beginning of the fight
/ The heaviest losers at the battle o
D Gettysburg We're two opposing resi
? ments-the Tweny-fourth Michigan
/ and the Twenty-sixth North Carolina
n They fought in the first days battle al
T. most man for man in the dueling con
e test which took place In Mcpherson
: woods. At the end of the day nothin
o remained Of either regiment eXcep
$ their flags and two pitiful squads o
battle-grimed soldiers. The Michigan
lost S97 out OF 1876. and the North Car,
. linas 6SS out of SO.
The casualties sustained by thes
troons were almost entirely from mus
- kerry fire. Instances might be cited {
show that. under certain circumstance
, artillery fire was still more deadly du
!. ing the civil war. Ii must be taken fC
=, granted that such was the case whel
= ever solid bodies Of troops marched u
/, IN the cannon's mouth. In Pickett
N charge. when the assaultlng colum
~ closed in on the Federal works, II