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 THUKK HUNDRED FIGHTING RI.<.IMI:NTS. 237 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVENTH NEW YORK INFANTRY. CUTLKK'S BRIGADE — WADSWORTH'S DIVISION - - FIRST CORPS. (1) COL. ANDREW S. WARM I; (2) Cou JOHN (J. BUTLER. (8)Coi.. FRANCIS C. MILLER. Total of killed and wounded, 581 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 62. BATTLES. K. & M.W. BATTLES. K.&M.W. Cold Harbor, Va i Petersburg Assault, Va., June 16-1 7, 1864 15 Siege of Petersburg, Va 5 Weldon Railroad, Va Hatcher's Run, Va 6 White Oak Road, Va Five Forks, Va 4 Picket Line i Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va 2 Gettysburg, Pa 76 Haymarket, Va i M ine Run, Va 2 Wilderness, Va 28 Spotsylvania, Va 11 North Anna, Va 2 Bethesda Church, Va 2 Present, also, at Chancellorsville ; Totopotomoy; Boydton Road ; Hicksford ; Chapel House ; Appomattox. NOTES. —The One Hundred and Forty-seventh was organized in the city of Oswego, N. V., from companies recruited in Oswego county, and was mustered into service on September 23, 1862. Its first casualties in battle occurred May 29, 1863, in the affair at Fitz Hugh's Crossing below Fredericksburg, one of the preliminary movements of the Chancellorsville campaign. The regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, then marched to Gettysburg. The brigade — Cutler's — was the first infantry to arrive on that field, and to it fell the honor of opening that famous battle, the first volley coming from the rifles of the Fifty-sixth Pennsylva nia.* When Cutler's troops were forced back, the order to retire failed to reach the One Hundred and Forty-seventh, as Colonel Miller fell wounded and senseless just as he received it, and so the gallant band, under Major Harney, continued to hold their ground. A temporary success near by enabled them to retire in good order; but not all of them, for of the 380 who entered that fight, 76 were killed or mortally wounded, 146 were wounded, and 79 were missing; total, 3Oi.| During Grant's bloody campaign of 1864-5, tne regiment fought in Warren's Fifth Corps, being actively-engaged in all its battles. In December, 1864, the remnant of the Seventy-sixth New York infantry was trans ferred to the One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York. • This honor is also claimed by the Fourteenth Brooklyn, of the same brigade; but, after list'-ning attentively to an exhaustive argument, made on the ground, and in whieh both parties were ably represented by surviving itarticipants, thu evidence appeared to favor the Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania. t From inscription on monument at Gettysburg. _06866
