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THKEK HUNDRED FIGHTING RKOJIMKNTS.

SEVENTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. RKOOKK'S BRIGADE -- BARLOW'S DIVISION--SECOND CORPS,

(1) COL. LEWIS O. MORRIS, B. *. (Killed). (2) COL. EDWARD A. SI'RINGSTKKD

(8) COL. RICHARD C. DI'RYKA, rffl. p.. B. «.

2qi killed—10.9 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 806 ; missing and captured, 542 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 204.

BATTLES. K. & M.W.

Spotsylvania, Va 13

Milford Station, Va 2

North Anna, Va 4

Picket, Va., May 28, 1864 i

Totopotomoy, Va 28

Cold Harbor, Va 127

Cold Harbor Trenches, Va 20

Petersburg, Va., June 16 55

BATTLES. K. <fc M.W.

Petersburg, Va., June 17-19.. 7

Siege of Petersburg, Va 6

Jerusalem Road, Va 3

Strawberry Plains, Va 3

Deep Bottom, Va 6

Ream's Station, Va 15

Picket, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 i

NOTES. — Recniited and organized at Albany as the One Hundred and Thirteenth New York Infantry. It moved to Washington, August 19, 1862, where it was immediately assigned to duty in the forts near the city. In December following it was changed to a heavy artillery command, and the two additional companies which became necessary by reason of the change were recruited, Company L joining the regiment in August, 1863, and Com pany M in January, 1864. The Seventh remained on garrison duty in various forts near Washington until May 15, 1864, when it was ordered to the front to serve as infantry. It marched out of Washington with 67 officers, 6 non-commissioned staff, and 1,768 muskets, joining Grant's Army on May lyth, at Spotsylvania. It was assigned to Tyler's Division, but was transferred, a few days later, to Barlow's splendid division, and at one time — in September, 1864 — it was attached to the famous Irish Brigade. It served with Barlow until February 22, 1865, when it was withdrawn from the front, and ordered to Baltimore, where it garrisoned Fort McHenry until after the close of the war. During its first hundred days of service in the field — from Spotsylvania to Ream's Station — the Seventh lost 1,254 in killed, wounded, and missing. The casualties at Cold Harbor, including the loss in the trenches, amounted to 45 killed, 259 wounded, and 114 missing; total, 418. Colonel Morris was killed there, the day after the assault, while passing along the trenches. He was an officer of the Regular Army, and a son of the Captain Morris who was killed at Monterey.

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