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THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS.

TWENTY-SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. CARR'S BRIGADE — HUMPHREYS'S DIVISION — THIRD CORPS.

(1) COL. WILLIAM F. SMALL.

(2) COL. BENJAMIN C. TILGHMAN ; Bvr. BRIO. OBH. (3) COL. ROBERT L. BODINK ; BVT. BKIO. GEN.

Total of killed and wounded, 489; captured and missing, 65 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 23.

BATTLES.

Yorktown, Va... Williamsburg, Va. Oak Grove, Va..,

K. &M.W. i

7

2

Seven Days Battle, Va 2

Manassas, Va 11

Fredericksburg, Va 6

BATTLES. K.&M.W.

Chancellorsville, Va 28

Gettysburg, Pa 65

Mine Run, Va 10

Wilderness, Va 5

Spotsylvania, Va 12

Present, also, at Savage Station ; White Oak Swamp; Glendale ; Malvern Hill; Chantilly ; Kelly's Ford; North Anna; Totopotomoy.

NOTES. —The Twenty-sixth was one of the first regiments that marched to the defence of the National Capital. In company with the Sixth Massachusetts, it was attacked by a mob while passing through Baltimore, on April 19, 1861, in which affair the regiment lost one man killed and several wounded. The regiment was not mustered-in until May 5th, when it was sworn in for three years; the enrollment, however, included very few of the original command who were at Baltimore, as they had tendered their services for a short term only. The Twenty-sixth encamped at Washington in May, 1861, and in October, having been assigned to Graver's Brigade, Hooker's Division, moved to Budd's Ferry, Md., where it was stationed until the spring campaign of 1862. At Chancel lorsville— in Berry's Division — it made a good fight, Colonel Tilghman being severely wounded, while the regi ment lost 11 killed, 71 wounded, and 9 missing. Its hardest fighting occurred at Gettysburg, where, out of 382 engaged, it lost 30 killed, 176 wounded, and 7 missing; total, 213; two officers and three color bearers were killed there. In 1864 the regiment served in McAllister's Brigade, Mott's Division, Second Corps. It took part in Hancock's grand charge at Spotsylvania, and in the subsequent movements to the Pamunkey; at the latter place it embarked for Washington, June 3, 1864, en route for home. It was mustered-out at Philadelphia, June 18, 1864, the recruits and reenlisted men remaining in the field having been transferred to the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania.

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