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 REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. EIGHTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. TYLER'S BRIGADE — GIBBON'S DIVISION — SECOND CORPS, (1) COLONEL PETER A. PORTER (Killed). (2) COLONEL WILLARD W. BATES (Killed). (3) COLONEL JAMES M. WILLET'. (4) COLONEL JOEL B. BAKER. 361 killed=i4 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 1,010 ; died of disease in Confederate prisons (previously included), 102. BATTLES. K. & M.W. Spotsylvania, Va., May 19, 1864 10 North Anna, Va 2 Cold Harbor, Va 207 Petersburg Assault, Va 42 Weldon Railroad, Va., June 22, 1864 34 Siege of Petersburg, Va 16 Deep Bottom, Va 4 BATTLES. K. & M.W. Ream's Station, Va 24 Boydton Road, Va 13 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 i Dabney's Mills, Va 2 White Oak Poad, Va 2 Picket, Va., Feb. 8, 1865 i By Prison Guards > 3 Present, also, at Totopotomoy ; High Bridge ; Farmville ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Organized at Lockport in August, 1862, as the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, the men coming from Niagara, Orleans, and Genesee counties. It was changed to heavy artillery in December, 1862, and two additional companies were added in January, 1864. The regiment performed garrison duty until May, 1864, when it was sent with the other heavy artillery commands to the front to reinforce General Grant. It was in action for the first time at Spotsylvania, Va., May 19, 1864, where it lost 8 killed, 21 wounded, and 4 missing. At Cold Harbor the Eighth lost 80 killed, 339 wounded, and 86 missing; total, 505 --it having twelve large companies engaged there. In that battle Colonel Porter led the regiment in its grand charge upon the enemy's works, and fell dead in the extreme advance. Eight officers were killed in that action. In the assault on Petersburg the regiment made another gallant attack on the Confederate lines, in which Col. Bates and Major Blake fell mortally wounded. In the actions around Petersburg, June 15-23, 1864, the regiment lost 42 killed, 261 wounded, and 5 missing; total, 308. Though known as an artillery regiment, the men carried rifles, and were drilled as infantry. When they took the field, their full ranks — twelve companies of 150 men each—^made them a very efficient organization, but their heavy losses in action soon reduced their long lines, until but few were left to witness the last fight at Appomattox. During all its service in the field, in i864_'65, the regiment was attached to the Second Division (Gibbon's) of the Second Corps. _05449
