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. TWENTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. HECKMAN'S BRIGADE --WEITZEL'S DIVISION --EIGHTEENTH CORPS. (1) COL. EDWARD UPTON. (2) COL. JOSIAH 1'ICKKTT: BYT. Hum. GEX. (8) COL. JAMES TUCKER. 161 killed — 11.7 percent. Total of killed and wounded, 564; died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 61. BATTLES. K. &M.\V. Roanoke Island, N. C 11 New Berne, N. C 5 Goldsboro, N. C 2 Walthal Junction, Va 5 Arrow-field Church, Va 18 Proctor's Creek, Va 2 BATTLES. K.AM.W. Drewry's Bluff, Va 21 Cold Harbor, Vaf • 74 Petersburg, Va. (assault) 11 Petersburg Trenches, Va 11 Picket, N. C. (1862) i Present, also, at Kinston, N. C.; Whitehall, N. C.; Wise's Forks, N. C. NOTES. —Recruited in Worcester county, and left the State November i, 1861. It went to Annapolis, and thence with the Burnside expedition to North Carolina, arriving at Hatteras Inlet on February 6, 1862. It was in Foster's (ist) Brigade, and was engaged at Roanoke Island with a loss of 6 killed and 44 wounded. It remained in North Carolina — in the Eighteenth Corps — until October, 1863, when it moved into South eastern Virginia. In the meantime, 432 of the men reenlisted, and in February, 1864, the regiment returned to Massachusetts on a veteran furlough. In April, 1864, the corps joined the Army of the James, and on May 51)1 landed at Bermuda Hundred. Fighting soon commenced, and on May gth, at Arrowfield Church, the regiment lost 16 killed, 60 wounded, and 69 captured or missing. At Cold Harbor it sustained its heaviest loss, its casual ties amounting to 24 killed, 142 wounded, and 49 missing, a total of 215 out of 300 reported for duty that morning; six of the officers lost their lives in that action, and the missing ones were nearly all killed or wounded. The brigade was withdrawn 'in September, 1864, from its position in the Petersburg Trenches, and ordered to New Berne, N. C., on garrison duty. It was mustered out October 20, 1864, and the men remaining in the field were consolidated into a battalion of four companies, which served in North Carolina until the close of the war. •One authority states the loss as 106 killed and Gl died of wounds; total l(i». mortally wounded. reports (unofficial; »aySJ; 52 killed, 30 _04828
