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 Crampton's Gap, driving the enemy from a strong ]x>sition; Slocum's loss was m killed, 418 wounded, and two missing; total, 533. The corps was under fire again at Antietam, but was only partially engaged; the third Brigade (Irwin's) of Smith's Division, took an active part, however, i In- Seventh Maim- ami Twentieth Ne\\ York sustaining severe losse Important changes in the corps now took place. It received a valuable accession by the transfer of Couch's Division of the Fourth Corps, which now l>ecame the Third Division of the Sixth, with General John Newton in command. General Franklin was promoted to the command of the Left Grand Division, Sixth and First Corps, and General Smith succeeded to the command of the corps. General Slocum's able services were acknowledged by his promotion to the command of the Twelfth Corps, and General W. T. Brooks succeeded Slo-cum in command of the First Division, while General A. P. Howe succeeded to the com mand of Smith's (2nd) Division. The next battle occurred at Fredericksburg, Dec. 18, 18(52, in which only a few regiments of the corps were engaged, although all were under a severe artillery lire. But the cori>s was engaged on the same field, May 3, 18t>3, in an action which made it famous on account of the brilliant display of dash and daring. When Hooker took the Army to Chancellors-viile he left the Sixth Corps in front of Fredericksburg, which was still held by a strong force of the enemy. General Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the corps command, ordered an assault on Marye's Heights, and that strong position which had defied the assaults of the previous battle, was now carried by the Sixth Corps at the point of the bayonet. The divisions of Newton and Howe were the ones engaged ; Brooks' (1st) Division was engaged later in the day, at Salem Church. The corps lost in this battle, 4sr> killed, 2,<>H> wounded, and 1,485 missing ; total 4,589. The missing ones were, for the most part, lost in the action at Salem Church. On the day before this battle, the corps returns showed a strength of 23,730, "present for duty," of whom less than 20,000 were present in action. The Gettysburg campaign came next, in which the divisions were commanded by Generals Wright, Howe, and Newton. The corps was held in reserve at Gettysburg, excepting Shaler's Brigade, which was sent into action as a support to the Twelfth Corps; several casualties, also, occurred in Eustis' and Wheatou's Brigades, of Newton's Division. During the pursuit of Lee's Army, after Gettysburg, the Vermont Brigade was engaged in a very creditable affair at Funkstown, Md., where this one brigade, drawn out in a skirmish line of over a mile in length, alone and unassisted, repelled a determined attack of a vastly sui>erior force, which in massed columns charged this skirmish line repeatedly. The Vermonters sustained but slight loss, as they occupied a strong, natural position. Having returned to Virginia, the corps participated, November 7, 18(53, at Rappahannock Station in a successful assault on the enemy's intrenehments. In this affair there was another display of that dash and gallantry which was so eminently characteristic of the Sixth Corps.* The Sixth Maine and Fifth Wisconsin distinguished themselves particularly in this action, leading the storming party and carrying the works with the bayonet only. It was a brilliant success, resulting not only in a victory, but in the capture of a large numl>er of prisoners, small arms, artillery and battle fiags. On the Mine Run campaign the divisions were commanded by Generals Wright, Howe, and H. D. Terry, but were not in action to any extent. The corps went into winter-quarters at Brandy Station. Upon the reorganization of the Army, in March, ls«H, several changes were made. The Third Division was broken up. Shaler's Brigade being transferred to Wright's (1st) Division, while the brigades of Eustis and \Vheaton were placed in the Second Division, •At Rappahannoek Station, Captain Furlong, of the Sixth Maine, leaped over the enemy's work*, and after emptying his revolver, fought with a clubbed musket, swinging it round his head until he fell dead. After the battle his body was found among a pile of dead, «BTeral of whom had been killed by the blows of a musket stock. _03009
