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 REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. RUSSELL'S BRIGADE — WRIGHT'S DIVISION — SIXTH CORPS. (1) COL. PETER C. ELLMAKER. (2) COL. GIDEON CLARK ; BVT. BBIG.-GEN. 141 killed = 11.5 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 519; died in Confederate prisons (previously included). 21. BATTLES. K. &M. W Fredericksburg, Va., April 29, 1863 i Salem Church, Va 24 Banks's Ford, Va , May 6, 1863 i Rappahannock Station, Va, 17 Brandy Station, Va i Wilderness, Va 18 BATTLES. K. & M. W. Spotsylvania, Va 56 Hanover, Va i Cold Harbor, Va 4 Opequon, Va 7 Petersburg, Va 8 Sailor's Creek, Va 3 Present, also, at First Fredericksburg; Marye's Heights; Gettysburg; Mine Run; Weldon Railroad; Fort Stevens; Hatcher's Run ; Appomattox. NOTES. —Recruited at Philadelphia in August, 1862. It arrived at Washington, September ist, and after a month's stay proceeded to Harper's Ferry where it joined the Army of the Potomac. It was there assigned to General Calvin E. Pratt's Brigade of Howe's Division. The regiment was under fire at the first battle of Fred ericksburg, 1862, but was not actively engaged. In the second battle — May 3, 1863—it took part in the engagement at Salem Church, where it sustained a loss of 10 killed, 74 wounded, and 38 missing, a total of 122 out of 432 present for duty. It was at that time in Russell's Brigade, Brooks's Division. In the affair at Rappa hannock Station the brigade made a successful bayonet charge, capturing the works, together with a large number of prisoners, flags, and cannon. The loss in the One Hundred and Nineteenth was 7 killed, 37 wounded, and i missing; Colonel Ellmaker led the brigade, General Russell being in command of the division. The regiment was hotly engaged at Spotsylvania, being one of the picked regiments in Upton'S storming party on May loth; on the 12th it participated in the bloody contest at the "Angle " where Major Truefit and Captain Warner, the regimental commandants were killed. The loss at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania—May 5th to i2th—was 231 killed and wounded, out of about 400 effectives that crossed the Rapidan. It also suffered a heavy percentage of loss in the Shenandoah Valley, its previous casualties having left but few in line. Early in the spring of 1863, the regiment was transferred to the Third Brigade, First Division, in which command it remained without further change. This division was commanded, successively, by Generals Brooks, Wright, Russell, and Wheaton; the brigade by Generals Russell, Eustis, and Edwards. _08484
