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 TllKKK HUNDKKI) Kl(JHTIN(J JtKCJIMKNTS. FORTY-NINTH NEW YORK INFANTRY—" SECOND BUFFALO." NEIL'S BRIGADE --GETTY'S DIVISION--SIXTH CORPS. (l)CoL. DANIEL P. BIWVKLL; HVT. BIUO.-OKN. (Killed). (2) Coi.. KKASTfS I). HOLT (Killed*. (8) Coi.. fJEOROE II. SELKIRK. 141 killed = 10.7 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 521 • died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 24. BATTLES. K.&MW Spotsylvania, Va 52 Cold Harbor, Va 5 Fort Stevens, D. C 7 Charlestown, W. Va. • i Opequon, Va 3 Cedar Creek, Va 11 Petersburg, Va 3 Place unknown 2 BATTLES. K.&M.W. Yorktown, Va., April 5, 1862 i Chickahominy, Va., June 27, 1862 i White Oak Swamp, Va i Antietam, Md Fredericksburg, Va. (1862) 2 Fredericksburg, Va. (1863) 4 On Picket, Pa., June 4, 1863 i Fairfield, Pa i Wilderness, Va 39 Present, also, at Dranesville ; Williamsburg ; Golding's Farm ; Malvern Hill; Crampton's Pass ; Gettysburg ; Rappahannock Station ; Mine Run ; Sailor's Creek ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Organized at Buffalo, September 18, 1861. The regiment arrived in Washington, September 21, 1861, and was assigned soon after to Davidson's Brigade, W. F. Smith's Division. In March, 1862, this division was placed in Keyes's (Fourth) Corps and accompanied it to the Peninsula; but on May 18, 1862, the division was detached and used in forming the Sixth Corps, in which command (Third Brigade, Second Division) the regiment served until the end of the war. Although the regiment participated in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and 1863, its losses were comparatively small until 1864, when it encountered some hard fighting and severe losses. The Forty-ninth started on Grant's Virginia campaign, May 4, 1864, with 384 men, losing at the Wilderness, 29 killed, 54 wounded, and 6 missing, and at Spotsylvania, 24 killed, 89 wounded, and 18 missing. Among the killed in these battles were ten officers. At Spotsylvania the regiment behaved with especial gallantry, its percentage of loss in that battle being a remarkable one. Its term of service expired September i 7, 1864, while fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and the remnant of the regiment went home. The rei : nlisted men and recruits with unexpired terms were left in the field and formed into a battalion of four com panies which served through the war. At Cedar Creek this battalion sustained a loss of 8 killed and 30 wounded. The Forty-ninth suffered a severe and unusual loss in the number of its field officers killed in action. Colonel Bidwell, who had been brevetted General, was killed at Cedar Creek ; Major Ellis was mortally wounded at Spotsylvania (shot with a ramrod); Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson was killed at Fort Stevens, while in command; and Colonel Holt fell in the final and victorious assault at the fall of Petersburg. _05716
