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 TllltKK HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. liG'J FIFTIETH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. CHRIST'S BRIGADE — WILLCOX'S DIVISION--NINTH CORPS. (l)CoL. BENJAMIN C. CHRIST; BVT. BRIO. GEN. WOOL. WILLIAM II. TELFOHD. K.&M.W. Wilderness, Va 20 Spotsylvania, Va 41 North Anna, Va i Cold Harbor, Va 8 Petersburg, Va. June 17, 1864 16 Petersburg Mine, Va 3 Siege of Petersburg, Va 12 Weldon Railroad, Va 9 Peeble's Farm, Va 2 Total of killed and wounded, 594 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 76. BATTLKS. K.&M.W. BATI Pocotaligo, S. C 4 Picket, S. C., 1862 i Manassas, Va 16 Chantilly, Va 11 South Mountain, Md i Antietam, Md 12 Jackson, Miss i Blue Springs, Tenn i Campbell's Station, Tenn 2 Knoxville, Tenn 3 Present, also, at Coosa River, S. C.; Fredericksburg; Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.; Hatcher's Run; Fort Stedman. NOTES. —Organized at Harrisburg, Pa., in September, 1861, having been recruited in the central part of the State. Proceeding to Annapolis it was brigaded with General Stevens's command, and in October sailed with General Sherman's (T. W.) expedition to Hilton Head, S. C. The regiment remained in this department sev eral months, during which time it had a varied experience in campaigning and fighting ; at Pocotaligo, Captain Charles H. Parker was killed while bravely leading a forlorn hope across the string pieces of an abandoned bridge. In July, 1862, the Fiftieth joined the Ninth Corps at Fort Monroe, then on its way to reinforce Pope. It was actively engaged in the battles of Manassas and Chantilly, in which the regiment lost 19 killed, 119 wounded, and 15 missing; total, 153. After more hard fighting,at Antietam, it was transferred with the Corps to the West, where it participated in the Siege of Vicksburg, it being then in Potter's (2d) Division. In the fighting before Jackson, Miss., the regiment lost its Lieutenant-Colonel, Thomas S. Brenholz, who was mortally wounded there. The Fiftieth shared the privations and dangers of the campaign at Knoxville, Tenn., and then returned to Virginia in the spring of 1864, it having rei-nlisted in the meanwhile and received its veteran furlough. It fought under Grant from the Rapidan to Appomattox, and was mustered out July 30, 1865. Its casualties at Spotsylvania were 23 killed, 109 wounded, and 113 captured or missing. At the dedication of the Gettysburg monument, July 4, 1865, the Fiftieth was present by order of the War Department as a representative of the army. _07748
