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 THKKK HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 171 THIRTY-FOURTH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY. \\ i i.i.s's r>i;i«; \I>K THOBURN'S DIVISION --EIGHTH CORPS. (1) COL. GEORGE I). WELLS; BVT. BRIO. GEN. (Killed). (2) COL. WILLIAM S. LINCOLN ; BVT. Bma.Onr. Total Enrollment. 16 121 I2 5 118 141 127 142 132 '33 126 128 135 killed — 10.3 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 645 ; died in Confederate prisons, 54. BATTLES. Berryville, Va., Oct. 18, 1863. .. New Market, Va., May 15, 1864 Piedmont, Va., June 5, 1864. K.&M.W. 2 •• 39 22 Lynchburg, Va., June 18, 1864 6 Island Ford, Va., July 18, 1864 3 Berryville, Va., Sept. 4,1864 i Opequon, Va., Sept. 19, 1864 23 BATTLES. K.&M.W. Fisher's Hill, Va., Sept. 22, 1864 4 Strasburg, Va., Oct. 13, 1864 15 Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864 5 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 31,1 865 2 Fort Gregg, Va., April 2, 1 865 9 High Bridge, Va., April 6, 1865 i Place Unknown 3 Present, also, at Martinsburg ; Halltown ; Petersburg ; Appomattox. NOTES. —Recruited in the five Western counties of the State. Colonel Wells had already served with honor able distinction as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Massachusetts before he was transferred to the command of the Thirty-fourth. The regiment left Worcester, 1,015 strong, on August 15, 1862, and proceeded direct to Virginia. For several months it was stationed at Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Va., and also did duty awhile in Washington. In July, 1863, it was ordered to Harper's Ferry, and, thence, on various campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley. It commenced the spring campaign of May, 1864, with 670 men present for duty, and took about 500 into the action at New Market,May 15, 1864, its casualties amounting to 28 killed, 174 wounded, and 19 missing; total, 221. At Piedmont it lost 15 killed, and 95 wounded ; at Opequon, 6 killed and 96 wounded out of less than 300 en gaged ; at Strasburg, 9 killed, 48 wounded, and 40 missing, out of 250 present in that fight. In the latter action Colonel Wells was killed and fell into the enemy's hands. In December, 1864, the regiment was transferred to Eastern Virginia, and assigned to Turner's Division, Twenty-fourth Corps, Army of the James. It participated in the desperate but victorious assault on the works at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and, taking part in the pursuit of Lee's Array, was present at the final scenes at Appomattox. _04945
