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 FAMOUS DIVISIONS AND BUKJADES. us SYKES'S DIVISION. Another division remarkable for superiority in discipline and efficiency, was Sykes's Division of Regulars. The regular troops of the United States Army serving in the Army of the Potomac were formed into one division of two brigades, under command of Major-General George Sykes, who was succeeded in 1803 by General Romeyn B. Ayres. This division in cluded the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth, and Seven teenth United States Infantry. The regiments were small, seldom having over eight companies to a regiment, and often only three. At Gaines's Mill, and at Gettysburg, they sustained a terrible percentage of loss. The division became so reduced in numbers that it was withdrawn from the field in 1864. The largest losses in the division occurred in the Fourteenth Infantry ; but that might have been due to larger numbers. The Regular Division was, undoubtedly, the best officered of any division in the Army, the officers being selected solely with reference to their ability. In addition to those from the National Military Ac;id«Mii\ . a large miiiilii-r were |u-«nii. >!.•(! from ili«' ranks. Attached to the division of Regulars was an additional brigade, composed of volunteer regiments, which had demonstrated by their discipline and efficiency their tit ness to 1x3 asso ciated with the Regulars. Conspicuous among the volunteer regiments thus attached to the Regular Division was the Fifth New York, or Duryee Zouaves—General Wan-en's old regiment. HANCOCK'S DIVISION. But the hardest fighting and greatest loss of life occurred in the First Division of the ('or].-. - Hancock's old division--in which more men were killed and wounded than in any other division in the Union Army, east or west. Its losses aggregated 2.2*7 killed, 11,72-4 wounded,* and 4,833 missing ; total, 18,844. This division was the one which Rich ardson--its first commander — led on the Peninsula, and at whose head he fell at Antietam ; the one which, under Hancock, made the bloody assault on Ma rye's Heights; which, under Caldwell, fought so well in the Gettysburg wheat-field ; which, under Barlow, surged over the enemy's works at Spotsylvania ; and which, under Miles, was in at the death in 18(55. Within its ranks were the Irish Brigade, and crack regiments like the Fifth New Hampshire, the One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania, and the Sixty-fourth New York. Over 14,<mo men were killed or wounded in this division "during the war ; yet it never numbered 8,0oo muskets, and often could muster only half of that. After the charge on Marye's Heights it numbered only 2,800. Close to it, however, in point of loss stands Gibbon's (2d) Division f of the Second Corps, and Griffin's (1st) Division:}: of the Fifth Corps. The heaviest loss sustained by any division in anyone battle, occurred in Getty's (2di Division, Sixth Corps, at the Wilderness, where that divison lost 480 killed, 2,318 wounded, and 196 missing ; total, 2,994. Gibbon's Division, at Gettysburg, lost 344 killed, 1.1 :»7 wounded, and 101 missing ; total, i,642, out of 3,773 engaged — a loss of 43.5 per cent. «Including the mortally wounded, t Formerly Sudgwick's. J Formerly Morell'n. _03380
