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 THKEE HUNDRED FIGHTING UEGIMENTS. FIFTH. WISCONSIN INFANTRY. RUSSELL'S BRIGADE — WRIGHT'S DIVISION — SIXTH CORPS. (1) COL. AMASA COBB ; BYT. BKIO.-GBN. (2) Coi.. THOMAS 8. ALLEN ; BVT. Prior to the re-organization October. 1864, 165 were killed— 12.5 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 749; missing and captured, 106. BATTLES. K. & M. W. Picket, Lee's Mills, Va i Williamsburg, Va 17 Golding's Farm, Va i Gaines's Mill, Va i First Fredericksburg, Va i Second Fredericksburg, Va 49 Rappahannock Station, Va 15 Gunboat Service (detailed) i BATTLES. K it M. W. Wilderness, Va 20 Spotsylvania, Va., May i o 31 Spotsylvania, Va., May 12 8 Cold Harbor, Va 5 Opequon, Va 5 Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 2 Fall of Petersburg, Va. 15 Sailor's Creek, Va 23 Present, also, at Yorktown ; Savage Station; Glendale.; Malvern Hill; Antietam ; Gettysburg; Fairfield ; Funkstown ; Mine Run ; Fort Stevens ; Charlestown , Appomattox. NOTES. —Arriving at Washington, July 26, 1861, it encamped on Meridian Hill, proceeding thence in Sep tember to Virginia, where it was attached to Hancock's Brigade. It took a prominent part in the " superb " action of Hancock's Brigade at Williamsburg, its casualties amounting to 8 killed, 70 wounded, and i missing. In February, 1863, the famous Light Division of the Sixth Corps, composed of picked regiments, was organized, General Calvin E. Pratt in command ; the Fifth was one of the regiments thus selected. In the successful storming of Marye's Heights, May 3, 1863, the regiment took a leading part in the assault made by the Light Division, earning a reputation for dash and bravery, and sustaining the heaviest loss of any regiment engaged in the assault; its casualties in that action were 35 killed, 122 wounded, and 36 missing; total, 193. In the bril liant affair at Rappahannock Station, the regiment joined the Sixth Maine in its celebrated charge on the enemy's intrenchments, sharing the honors of the victory. Major Horace W. Wheeler fell, mortally wounded, in this charge, the loss in the regiment amounting to 10 killed and 49 wounded. The Fifth was ordered home for mus ter-out July 12, 1864 ; the men with unexpired terms were consolidated into a battalion of three companies, to which seven new companies were added in October. _11302
