| regiments. | Casualties. | Number Engaged. | Percentage of Casualties. | Killed and Died of Wounds. | Percentage of Killed. | ||||
| Killed. | Wounded. | Missing. | Total. | ||||||
| Caldwell's Brigade. | |||||||||
| Staff | -- | 3 | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 5th New Hampshire | 20 | 154 | 19 | 193 | 303 | 63.6 | 51 | 16.8 | |
| 7th New York | 26 | 184 | 33 | 243 | 488 | 49.7 | 56 | 11.4 | |
| 61st New York | 9 | 27 | -- | 36 | 435 | 24.8 | 26 | 5.9 | |
| 64th New York | 4 | 68 | -- | 72 | |||||
| 81st Pennsylvania | 15 | 141 | 20 | 176 | 261 | 67.4 | 46 | 17.6 | |
| 145th Pennsylvania | 34 | 152 | 43 | 229 | 500 | 45.8 | 91 | 18.2 | |
| Irish Brigade. | |||||||||
| 28th Massachusetts | 14 | 124 | 20 | 158 | 416 | 37.9 | 37 | 8.8 | |
| 63d New York | 2 | 38 | 4 | 44 | 162 | 27.1 | 11 | 6.7 | |
| 69th New York | 10 | 95 | 23 | 128 | 238 | 53.7 | 34 | 14.2 | |
| 88th New York | 17 | 97 | 13 | 127 | 252 | 50.3 | 38 | 15.0 | |
| 116th Pennsylvania | 7 | 67 | 14 | 88 | 247 | 35.6 | 25 | 10.1 | |
| Zook's Brigade. | |||||||||
| 27th Connecticut | 10 | 83 | 20 | 113 | 384 | 29.4 | 36 | 9.3 | |
| 2d Delaware | 4 | 41 | 9 | 54 | 244 | 22.1 | 15 | 6.1 | |
| 52d New York | 6 | 37 | -- | 43 | 160 | 26.8 | 12 | 7.5 | |
| 57th New York | 8 | 78 | 1 | 87 | 192 | 45.3 | 20 | 10.4 | |
| 66th New York | 11 | 55 | 9 | 75 | 238 | 31.5 | 24 | 10.0 | |
| 53d Pennsylvania | 21 | 133 | 1 | 155 | 314 | 49.3 | 39 | 12.4 | |
| 4th U. S. Artillery “C” | 1 | 4 | -- | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Total | 219 | 1,581 | 229 | 2,029 | 4,834 | 41.9 | 561 | 11.6 | |
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effective strength.
The Union Armies generally outnumbered the Confederates, but the disparity was not so great as the official figures always implied.
Although the reports of the Union commanders seldom mentioned the number taken into action by each regiment, General Hancock was thoughtful enough in his report for Fredericksburg to specify the number present on the field in each regiment of his division.
As the loss in Hancock's Division, in its memorable assault on Marye's Heights, was one of the severest of the war, it is given here in full.
In addition to the official figures, the number of killed, as increased by those who died of their wounds, is also given — the number having been ascertained by examining the muster-out rolls of each regiment.
Having the exact number engaged, these casualties are of interest as showing the outside limit of loss to which troops are subjected in action.
There are on record some higher percentages in cases of individual regiments in certain engagements, but no greater percentage in any division.
Nearly all the missing ones were killed or wounded men, who fell in front of the stone wall at Marye's Heights.
Most of them belong with the killed, and were buried by the enemy.
The number engaged may appear small; but it should be remembered that this division had already lost 3,290 men on the Peninsula and at Antietam.
1888.
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