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 fur different proportion, will in its aggregate of battles, show the usual ratio; particularly so if its losses are not complicated by too large a number of missing. The exact number of wounded who die of injuries received in any l>attle is an important element in this matter of losses in action. The man who dies under the surgeon's knife should be included with the killed as well as the one who, a few hours before, slowly bled to death upon the field. The mangled soldier who survived a day belongs with the killed as much as the one who was buried where he fell. And, yet, they never are. Take Gettysburg, for instance. The official figures for the Union loss at Gettysburg have lately been revised and corrected at the War Department, This final statement shows that the Union Army lost at Gettysburg 3,003 killed, 14,402 wounded, and 5,435 missing. But, as usual, the mortally wounded are included in the 14,41)2 wounded. As no further statement of this loss will he made by the War Department, the question arises as to how many of the wounded died of their injuries. How many of the Union Army were killed or died of their wounds as a result of the battle of Gettysburg ? What was the actual loss of life ? Hitherto, this hn{>ortant question has never been answered. The writer, impressed with its importance, has examined the rolls of each regiment which fought at Gettysburg, and picked off, name by name, the number of those who were killed or died of wounds in that greatest of historic battles. As a result, it api>ears that 5,291 men lost their lives, fighting for the Union on that field. To the recapitulation of losses, as published by Mr. Kirkley in 1886, I have attached here the numl>er of killed, as increased by those who died of wounds, three-fourths of whom died within a week, GETTYSBURG, JULY 1-3, 18G3. Captured Killed and Killed. Wounded. or Missing. Total. Died oj Wounds. General Headquarters 4 4 1st Army Corps 503 3,200 2,222 (5,024 1,008 2d Army Corps 700 3,180 30S 4,350 1,238 3d Army Corps 578 3,026 000 4,2lo 1,050 5th Army Corps 365 1,611 211 2,187 503 6th Army Corps 27 185 30 242 46 llth Army Corps 368 1,022 1,511 3,801 724 12th Army Corps 204 810 67 1,081 32o Cavalry Corps 00 352 407 840 152 Reserve Artillery 4i> 187 13 242 7<> Total 3,063 14,402 5,435 22,000 5,201 From these figures it appears that the Second Corps sustained the greatest loss in killed, although the First Corps is credited with the largest numter of casualties. The strength of each Corps, in infantry, present for duty equipped, June 30, 1863, was :- First Corps, 0,403 Fifth Corps, 11,054 Twelfth Corps, 8,103 Second Corps, 12,363 Sixth Corps, 14,516 Cavalry Corps 14,073 Third Corps, 11,247 Eleventh Corps, 0,107 Artillery, 6,602 It is extremely doubtful, however, if any one of these corps carried into action four-fifths of this reported strength. The returns for the First Corps do not include Sk-unianl's Vermont Brigade (three regiments), which joined July 2d ; the two other regiments of this brigade were with the wagon train. _01502
