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 TIIUKE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 387 SIXTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY. VINCENT'S BRIGADE --GRIFFIN'S DIVISION FIFTH COUPS. (1) COL. T. H. STOCKTON, I. i 1 (2) COL. NORVAL E. WELCH (Killed). (3) COL. BKN JAM IN F. I'ARTRIIHJE ; BVT. BIUO.-GEN. 247 killed=i2.8 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 870 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 15. BATTLES. K.&M.W. Spotsylvania, Va 14 North Anna, Va 3 Totopotomoy, Va 4 Bethesda Church, Va 3 Siege of Petersburg, Va 22 Weldon Railroad, Va 5 Peebles's Farm, Va 18 Dabney's Mills, Va 9 Gravelly Run, Va 3 Five Forks, Va 2 BATTLES. K.&M.W. Hanover Court House, Va i Gaines's Mill, Va 78 Glendale, Va i Malvern Hill, Va 10 Manassas, Va 25 Fredericksburg, Va 11 Chancellorsville, Va i Middleburg, Va i Gettysburg, Pa 29 Wilderness, Va 7 Present, also, at Yorktown ; Mechanicsville ; White Oak Swamp ; Antietam ; Rappahannock Station ; Mine Run ; Cold Harbor ; Hatcher's Run ; White Oak Road ; Appomattox. NOTES. — Organized originally as " Stockton's Independent Regiment," under authority from the Secretary of War, but it was soon included in the State service. It left the State on September 16, i ^64, with ten companies, - 761 officers and men ; two companies of sharpshooters joined it later, making twelve companies, one joining in 1862, the other in 1864. The regiment went into winter quarters at Hall's Hill, Va., and in March, 1862, moved to the Peninsula. It was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, in which it remained throughout the war; at that time the brigade was commanded by General Butterfield, and the division by General Morell. The regiment suffered a severe loss at Gaines's Mill, its casualties amounting to 47 killed, 114 wounded, and 53 missing; many of the latter were killed or wounded. Under command of Captain Elliott it was hotly engaged at Manassas, where it lost 16 killed, 64 wounded, and 16 missing, out of 290 engaged. Colonel Welch was in command at Gettysburg, where it took part in the historic contest of Vincent's Brigade for the possession of Little Round Top, losing in that battle 23 killed, 34 wounded, and 3 missing. Major Robert T. Elliott was killed at the Totopotomoy, and Colonel Welch in the assault at Peebles's Farm. Welch was killed on the parapet of a redoubt, which he was the first to scale. _11087
