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 HUNDKKD Fl<JHTIN(J HKUIMKNTS. 281 EIGHTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. CROSS'S BKKJADK - CALIWKIJ/S DIVISION - - SECOND COUPS. (1) COL. JAMES MILLER (Killed). (2) COL. CHARLES F. JOHNSON. (8) COL. HENRY HOYI) MrKEKN (Killwl). (4) COL. WILLIAM WILSON. Totals 128 643 147 918 Present, also, at Yorktown ; Peach Orchard ; Wilderness ; Po River; North Anna; Strawberry Plains ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Organized at Philadelphia in October, 1861. After encamping near Washington for several months, it commenced active service in the field, March, 1862,— then in- Howard's (ist) Brigade, Richardson's (ist) Division, Sumner's (zd) Corps. Colonel Miller was killed in the first battle— Fair Oaks — and at Malvern Hill his successor, Lieutenant-Colonel Eli T. Conner, fell dead while gallantly leading his men. The division was com manded by Hancock at Fredericksburg, where the Eighty-first took part in the memorable assault of that day, losing 176 out of 261 present on the field. Enough of the men reenlisted, in January, 1864, to ensure a contin uance of the organization, and they received a veteran furlough. Hard fighting with further heavy losses were encountered in Grant's campaigns, and at Cold Harbor, Colonel McKeen, was killed, while in command of a brigade. The Eighty-first took part in all the battles of the First Division, being hotly engaged at Farmville, at which place the Second Corps fought its last battle. _08103
