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 THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. SECOND WISCONSIN INFANTRY. IRON BRIGADE — WADSWORTH'S DIVISION- I II;M Corn's. (1) COL. S. P. COON. (2) Cou. KDGAR O'CONNOR, OT. |J. (Killed). (3) COL. LUCIUS FAIKCHILD. B.*. (4) COL. JOHN MANSFIELD. 238 killed — 19.7 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 753 ; of missing and captured, 132 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 17. BATTLES. K. & M.W. Blackburn's Ford, Va i First Bull Run, Va 25 Catlett's Station, Va i Gainesville, Va 86 Manassas, Va i South Mountain, Md 10 Antietam, Md 30 Fredericksburg, Va 2 BATTLES. K.&M.W Wilderness, Va 17 Spotsylvania, Va., May 10 4 Spotsylvania, Va., May 21 i North Anna, Va i Petersburg, Va 2 Hatcher's Run, Va 2 Gunboat detail 7 Artillery detail 2 Gettysburg, Pa 46 Present, also, at Cedar Mountain ; Fitz Hugh's Crossing ; Chancellorsville ; Mine Run ; Bcthesda Church ; Cold Harbor; Weldon Railroad. NOTES. —This regiment sustained the greatest percentage of loss of any in the entire Union Army. It was a fine regiment and well officered. Leaving the State June 20, 1861, it went to Virginia, where it was brigaded under command of Colonel William T. Sherman, with which command it marched to First Bull Run ; its casualties in that battle were 24 killed, 65 wounded, and 23 missing. In August, 1861, it was assigned to the command which afterwards became so famous as "The Iron Brigade of the West." This brigade, under General Gibbon, encountered hard fighting at Manassas (1862), in which the regiment lost 53 killed, 213 wounded, and 32 miss ing,— a total of 298. Nearly all these casualties occurred at Gainesville, where the opposing lines faced each other at a distance of 75 paces; Colonel O'Connor was killed there. The loss at Antietam was 19 killed and 67 wounded ; at Gettysburg, 26 killed, 155 wounded, and 52 missing ; Colonel Fairchild lost an arm at Gettysburg, Lieutenant-Colonel George H. Stevens was killed, and the casualties in the regiment amounted to 77 percent, of those present. The Second fought at the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania, after which it was detailed as a provost-guard, having become reduced to less than 100 men present for duty, with both field officers wounded and in the hands of the enemy. On June n, 1864, it was ordered home for muster-out, the recruits and ree'n-listed men having been consolidated into a battalion of two companies, A and B, which were transferred in November to the Sixth Wisconsin. _11239
