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. TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY. IRON BRIGADE — WADSWORTH'S DIVISION — FIRST CORPS. COLONEL HENRY A. MORROW ; BVT. BRIG.-GEN. 189 killed == 11.4 per cent. Total killed and wounded, 589 ; missing and captured, 153 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 30. BATTLES. K.&M.W. Cold Harbor, Va 3 Petersburg, Va. (assault) 9 Siege of Petersburg, Va 5 Weldon Railroad, Va 4 Hatcher's Run, Va i Picket, Dec. 6, 1864 i Dabney's Mills, Va 5 BATTLES. K. & M. W. Fredericksburg, Va 9 Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va 4 Gettysburg, Pa 94 Wilderness, Va 25 Spotsylvania, Va 24 North Anna, Va 3 Totopotomoy, Va i Bethesda Church, Va i Present, also, at Chancellorsville ; Mine Run ; Hicksford. NOTES. — The largest number of casualties in any regiment at Gettysburg occurred in the Twenty-fourth Michigan. It was then in the Iron Brigade, Wadsworth's (ist) Division, First Corps, and fought in the battle of the first day, while in position in McPherson's woods near Willoughby Run. It was obliged to fall back from this line, but did not yield the 'ground until three-fourths of its number had been struck down. Entering the engage ment with 28 officers and 468 men, it lost 69 killed, 247 wounded, and 47 missing; total, 363.* Fully one-half of the missing ones were killed or wounded, Eight officers were killed, and fourteen wounded ; four color-bearers were killed, and three wounded; Colonel Morrow was wounded and captured. Upon the discontinuance of the First Corps, in March, 1864, Wadsworth's Division was transferred to the Fifth Corps, becoming the Fourth Division, with the brigade under command of General Cutler. At the Wilder ness, the regiment captured the colors of the Forty-Eighth Virginia; Colonel Morrow was severely wounded, and the casualties amounted to 14 killed, 48 wounded, and 42 missing or captured. Under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Albert M. Edwards, it was under fire at Spotsylvania in the various engagements near that place, sustain ing a loss of 20 killed, 39 wounded, and i missing. The regiment became so reduced by its losses that it mus tered only 120 men for the assault on Petersburg, June 18, 1864. It was withdrawn from the field in February, 1865, and ordered to Springfield, 111., where it was assigned to duty at the draft rendezvous. The regiment was mustered into the United States service August 15, 1862, having been recruited within thirty days. It was mus tered out, at Detroit, June 30, 1865. 'Colonel Morrow in his report, states the loss at 79 killed, 237 wounded, and " about" 83 missing. The nominal list handed in by Captain -bdwards after the battle shows 363 casualties, but divided differently from the above. _11159
