Various Union Army Corps.
At
Gaines' Mill,
Slocum's Division of the Sixth Corps was sent to the support of
General Porter, and lost 2,021 out of less than 8,000 present in the hot engagement.
It was in front of
Fredericksburg May 3, 1863, under
General Sedgwick, that the
Corps made its most brilliant display of dash and daring.
It carried at the point of the bayonet
Marye's Heights, the strong position before which there had fallen, gloriously but in vain, nearly 13,000 men the previous December.
Most of the
Corps was held in reserve at
Gettysburg, and its casualties there were slight, but it added again to its laurels at Rappahannock Station.
In the battles of the
Wilderness and
Spotsylvania it encountered its hardest fighting, the percentage of killed of the Fifteenth New Jersey in the latter battle being equaled in only one instance during the whole war. At Cold Harbor it suffered heavily again, and the appearance of two of its divisions at
Fort Stevens checked
Early's advance on
Washington.
It pursued
Early up the
Shenandoah, and fought at
Opequon and
Cedar Creek.
In the final assault on
Petersburg it played an important part.
It was no less prominent in its final appearance at the
Grand Review in
Washington.
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The nineteenth army corps |
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The sixth army corps in the grand review—the corps that saved Washington from capture |
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The twentieth army corps |
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