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 The next battle was Maoaasas (Second Bull Run), where the corps, still under command of General Porter, did some of the bust fighting on that field, the largest regimental loss, in killed and wounded, in Poj>e's entire Army at that battle, occurring in the Duryee Zouaves, one of Porter's regiments. The two small divisions of Morell and Sykes sustained a loss there of IJ31 killed, I, iit'.i* \voimded, and 4f>«> missing; a total of 2,151, out of about (5,500 engaged; Griffin's Brigade not being in action. At Antietam, Porter's Corps was held in reserve ; still, it Was drawn on freely during the day, so that Sykes'Division was, almost wholly, in action. Soon after this battle a third division was assigned to the corps, taking the place of the Pennsylvania Reserves. This new division was commanded by General Humphreys, and was composed of two brigades; the regiments were all from Pennsylvania and were mostly nine-months men, newly recruited. General Daniel Buttertield commanded the corps at Frederick si mrg, and Generals Griffin. Sykes, and Humphreys the divisions; loss, ii(Mi killed, 1,C(JU wounded, and 300 missing; total, 2,175. Over half of the loss fell on Humphreys'new recruits, who made a dashing attempt, under his personal leadership, t<> carry Marye's Heights after all other efforts had failed. General Meade succeeded Butterfield, and led the corps to Chancellorsville, where it was but partially engaged ; loss, 65) killed, 472 wounded, and l.V.» missing. The time of the nine-months regiments in Humphreys' Division expired soon after Chancellorsville, and that divis ion was necessarily discontinued ; but upon the news of Lee's invasion, in ls<>3, the Penn sylvania Reserves, who were then on duty in Washington, petitioned that they be allowed to march to the defence of their state. Accordingly, two brigades of the Reserves rejoined the Army of the Potomac, and were assigned to the Fifth Corps, in which they again served as the Third Division, this time under command of General S. W. Crawford. General Meade having been promoted to the command of the Army, just before the battle of Gettysburg, General Sykes succeeded to his place ; the divisions, were commanded at Gettysburg by Generals Barnes, Ayres, and Crawford. The corps distinguished itself in that battle by its fighting in the wheat-field, and also by the gallant action of Vincent's Brigade in seizing Little Round Top, just in time to save the Army from what might have been a serious disaster. The corps' loss at Gettysburg was 3(55 killed, 1,(HI wounded, and 211 miss ing ; a total of 2,187, out of about 11,000 actually engaged. The regular troops of the Army of the Potomac were all in the Fifth Corps, Second (Ayres') Division, and at Gettysburg these two brigades, under Colonels Day and Burbank, again displayed that marked efficiency which, at Games' Mill and on other fields, had made them famous, their thinned ranks becoming again sadly depleted under the terrible fire which they encountered. General Sykes remained in command, and handled the corps on the Mine Run campaign ; the division generals were Bartlett, Ayres, and Crawford. In March, 1804, the First Corps was transferred to the Fifth, and General G Warren was assigned to the command. The First and Second Divisions of the Fifth Corps were consolidated, forming the First Division, under General Griffin, while the Third Division -Crawford's Pennsylvania Reserves — remained unchanged ; the First Corps had l>een consoli dated into two divisions, prior to the transfer, which now became the Second and Fourth Divisions of the Fifth Corps, under command, respectively, of Generals Robinson and Wadf worth. Under this reorganization, the Fifth Corps contained <J7 regiments of infantry, ami 0 batteries of light artillery (48 guns), numbering in all 25,695 officers and men " present dutv, equipped." General Wads worth was killed in the battle of the Wildernefi and General was severely wounded, losing a leg at Spotsylvania. General Cutler, of the Iron Brigade, _02993
