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FIFTY-THIRD PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY |
| (from William Fox, Regimental Losses in the Civil War) |
| BROOKE'S BRIGADE - BARLOW'S DIVISION - SECOND CORPS |
| (1) Col.
JOHN R. BROOKE; BVT. MAJOR-GEN. (2) Col. OCTAVIUS S. BULL. (3) Col. WILLIAM R. MINTZER; BVT. BRIG. GEN. |
Deaths in the 53rd PVI during the War of the Rebellion |
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| O= Officers M = Enlisted Men T = Total |
K = Killed & Died of Wounds D = Died of Disease, Accidents, Prison, etc. E = Total Enrollment |
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K |
D |
E | ||||
Companies |
O |
M | T | O | M | T |
E |
| Field & Staff | 1 | 1 | 18 | ||||
| Company A | 25 | 25 | 21 | 21 | 207 | ||
| Company B | 14 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 174 | ||
| Company C | 15 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 178 | ||
| Company D | 1 | 27 | 28 | 19 | 19 | 210 | |
| Company E | 10 | 10 | 8 |
8 | 163 | ||
| Company F | 1 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 206 | |
| Company G | 25 | 25 | 1 |
23 | 24 | 246 | |
| Company H | 21 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 209 | ||
| Company I | 1 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 18 | 211 | |
| Company K | 1 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 27 | 171 | |
TOTALS |
5 | 195 | 200 | 1 | 193 | 194 | 1993 |
200 killed = 10 per cent. |
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Total of killed and wounded = 787 |
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Died in Confederate prisons = 56. |
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53rd PVI Killed or Mortally Wounded per Battle |
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BATTLE |
K or MW | ..... | BATTLE | K or MW |
Fair Oaks, Va |
22 | Totopotomoy, Va | 1 | |
Seven Days Battle, Va |
3 | Cold Harbor, Va | 16 | |
| Antietam, Md | 8 | Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864) | 18 | |
| Fredericksburg, Va | 39 | Petersburg Trenches, Va | 29 | |
| Chancellorsville, Va | 1 | Deep Bottom, Va | 4 | |
| Gettysburg, Pa | 11 | Ream's Station, Va | 1 | |
| Bristoe Station, Va | 1 | Picket, Va., Oct. 1 8, 1864 | 1 | |
| Wilderness, Va | 2 | White Oak Road, Va | 20 | |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 41 | Farmville, Va | 2 | |
| Present, also, at Yorktown; Gaines's Mill; Peach Orchard; Savage Station; White Oak Swamp; Malvern Hill; Mine Run; Po River; North Anna; Strawberry Plains; Appomattox. |
| NOTES.--Recruiting commenced
in September, 1861, the companies being raised in various counties. An organization
was effected at Harrisburg, November 5, 1861, after which the regiment
proceeded immediately to Washington. It wintered in Virginia,
near Alexandria, and then went with General McClellan to the Peninsula, having
been assigned to French's (3d) Brigade, Richardson's (1st) Division, Second
Corps, remaining in that famous division throughout its service. Its first
experience in battle was at Fair Oaks; Major Thomas Yeager was killed there,
the total loss of the regiment amounting to 13 killed, 64 wounded, and 17
missing. General Richardson was killed at Antietam, and General Hancock succeeded
to the command of the division. General Zook commanded the brigade at
Fredericksburg, where, in that bloody assault, the Fifty-third lost 21 killed,
133 wounded, and 1 missing, out of the 283 men who were in line that day.
In December, 1863, the regiment reenlisted for the war, and so was present
at all the battles of the Second Corps. It participated, with severe
loss, in Hancock's charge at Spotsylvania, in the assaults at Cold Harbor
and Petersburg, and was actively engaged in the battle near Hatcher's Run,
on March 31, 1865, an engagement known as White Oak Road, or Boydton Road.
Its losses at Spotsylvania were 26 killed, 123 wounded, and 28 missing; total,
177. The regiment was mustered out June 30, 1865.
from Regimental Losses in the American
Civil War 1861 to 1865, by Lt. Col.
William F. Fox, reprint by Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, 1974, p. 271, transcribed by Scott Kunkle, 1999 |
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