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 THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 105 TWENTY-FIRST MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. LEASURE'S BRIGADE —STEVENSON'S DIVISION --NINTH CORPS. (1) COL. Al'ursTVS MOUSE. (2) COL. WILLIAM S. OLAHK. (8) COL. (JEOUOE P. I1AWKES ; BVT. Biiio. OKN. 159 killed — 13.4 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 560; died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 6. BATTLES. K. AM.\V. BATTI.I - Roanoke Island, N. C 13 New Berne, N. C 23 Camden, N. C 4 Chantilly, Va 38 Antietam, Md i o Fredericksburg, Va 13 Knoxville, Tenn 4 Wilderness, Va 3 Spotsylvania, Va., May 12 4 Present, also, at Manassas ; South Mountain ; Blue Springs ; Campbell's Station ; Cold Harbor ; North Anna. K.&M.W. Spotsylvania, Va., May 18 i Shady Grove Road, Va 3 Bethesda Church, Va 13 Petersburg, Assault, June 17 6 Petersburg Mine, Va 7 Siege of Petersburg 10 Weldon Railroad, Va 3 Poplar Grove Church, Va 4 NOTES. —Composed mainly of Worcester county men. It left the State August 23, 1861, and was stationed at Annapolis until January 6, 1862, when it sailed with the Burnside expedition to North Carolina, having been brigaded in General Reno's command. Under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Alberto C. Maggi, it was promi nently engaged at Roanoke Island, where its casualties were 5 killed and 39 wounded. In the following month, commanded by Colonel Clarke, it fought gallantly at New Berne, where it suffered a loss of 15 killed and 42 wounded; among the killed was Adjutant Stearns. At Chantilly—in Ferrero's Brigade, Reno's Division -the regiment encountered the hardest fighting in its experience ; Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph P. Rice was killed, and the total of casualties amounted to 22 killed, 98 wounded, and 26 captured, out of less than 400 men present in action. At Fredericksburg — Ferrero's (20!) Brigade, Sturgis's (2d) Division — the regiment rendered efficient service by the skill with which, from an advanced position and good marksmanship, it kept down the enemy's fire. In this action two color bearers were killed, and others were wounded, one of the latter losing both arms. Leasure's Brigade distinguished itself particularly in the battle of the Wilderness, where it swept down the line, across and opposite Hancock's front; it was a daring charge, and accomplished with a remarkably small loss. The Twenty-first was mustered out in October, 1864; the men remaining in the field were trans ferred to the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts. _04772
