History of the Nineteenth Army CorpsIrwin, Richard B. (Richard Biddle)
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History of the Nineteenth Army Corps
Irwin, Richard B. (Richard Biddle)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States. Army. Corps, 19th
(1) On veteran furlough in August and September.
(2) On veteran furlough in August and September, at Martinsburg
afterward.
(3) On veteran furlough in August and early September.
(4) From November 19, 1864.
DETACHMENTS LEFT IN LOUISIANA.
The following troops served under Canby in the siege of Mobile,
March 20 - April 12, 1865:
1st Indiana Heavy Artillery.
31st Massachusetts, as mounted infantry, from Pensacola, with
Steele.
2d Massachusetts Battery. Also engaged at Daniel's Plantation,
Alabama, April 11, 1865.
4th Massachusetts Battery. Afterward at Galveston.
7th Massachusetts Battery. " " "
15th Massachusetts Battery. " " "
4th Wisconsin Cavalry. Afterward on Rio Grande in Weitzel's corps.
1st Michigan Heavy Artillery.
161st New York, in Third brigade, First division, new XIIIth Corps,
Kinsey commanding the brigade. Loss: 2 killed, 1 wounded.
Afterward in Florida.
7th Vermont, in First brigade, Third division, new XIIIth Corps.
Loss: 18 wounded, 43 captured. Afterward on Rio Grande in Weitzel's
Corps of Observation.
18th New York Battery.
21st New York Battery.
26th New York Battery.
Battery G, 5th U. S. Artillery.
8th New Hampshire, as mounted infantry, served at Natchez and at
Vidalia, opposite.
91st New York, after returning from veteran furlough, September,
1864, went to Baltimore as part of Second separate brigade, VIIIth
Corps. March, 1865, joined First brigade, Third division, Vth
Corps, Army of the Potomac. Fought at White Oak Ridge, March
29-31, and Five Forks, April, 1865. Loss: 61 killed and mortally
wounded, 152 wounded, 17 captured or missing; total, 230.
110th New York, at Key West, Florida, from February 9, 1864.
3d Massachusetts Cavalry, detached to remount December 26, 1864;
with Chapman's brigade; in cavalry review May 23, 1865; afterward
in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.
LOSSES IN BATTLE.
BATON ROUGE.
August 5, 1862.
Killed Wounded Captured or missing
COMMAND O E O E O E Aggregate
General Officers 1 1
9th Connecticut 1 9 4 14
21st Indiana 2 22 7 91 4 126
14th Maine 36 7 64 12 119
30th Massachusetts 1 2 3 12 18
6th Michigan 15 4 40 1 5 65
7th Vermont 1 9 5 15
Troop B Massachusetts Cavalry 1 1
2d Massachusetts Battery 4 1 5
4th Massachusetts Battery 1 5 6
6th Massachusetts Battery 3 1 8 1 15
__ ___ __ ___ __ ___ ____
Total 4 80 23 243 1 32 383
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