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Battle Campaign Date Nearest town Total Union Confederacy Total Total Strength Commander Casualties Casualties as % of strength Gettysburg: Gettysburg campaign: July 1 –3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 93,921 71,699 165,620: George G. Meade: Robert E. Lee: 23,049 28,063 51,112: 24.54% 39.14% 30.86% Chickamauga: Chickamauga campaign ...
The Battle of Gettysburg: A History of the Civil War in America. Digital Scanning, Inc., 1999. ISBN 1-58218-066-0. First published 1869 by Germer Baillière. New York (State), William F. Fox, and Daniel Edgar Sickles. New York at Gettysburg: Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1900. OCLC ...
Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Steven's Furnace July 5. Shepherdstown, West Virginia, July 14-16. Little Washington August 27. Advance to the Rapidan September 13-17. Culpeper Court House September 13. Crooked Run September 18. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Warrenton or White Sulphur Springs October 12-13. Auburn and Bristoe October 14. St.
The 1st Minnesota participated in the battles of First Bull Run, Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg. [1] One of the regiment's most famous actions was on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg when Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the 1st Minnesota to charge into a brigade of 1,200 Confederate soldiers.
The deadliest single-day battle in American history, if all engaged armies are considered, is the Battle of Antietam with 3,675 killed, including both United States and Confederate soldiers (total casualties for both sides were 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing Union and Confederate soldiers September 17, 1862). [1] [a] [2]
The people of Gettysburg say they still feel the spirits of lives lost during the three-day battle that would define American history. "It was the bloodiest single battle of the American Civil War ...
After the battle, the regiment went into winter quarters, but in the spring of 1863 was heavily engaged at the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1–3, 1863, suffering over 50% casualties. At the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, the unit was detached from the rest of the brigade and sent to the southern part of the Peach Orchard.
Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3. ... Casualties The regiment lost a total of 233 men during service; 5 officers and 81 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 ...