A preview from The Petersburg Regiment, 12th Virginia Infantry, Copyright John Horn 2016:
Table 7: The
Petersburg Regiment Compared with Some Foes[1]
Sometimes,
despite the confusion of battle (particularly in woods), it is possible to
identify the particular enemy regiment or regiments opposing the 12th Virginia
or a portion thereof in a given fight. The
Petersburg Regiment compared very favorably with the average Union regiment,
which lost about five percent. It often
met some of the best regiments in the Federal army, yet compared favorably with
some of them as well.
Regiment Killed or Died of Percentage
(Foe
of 12th Virginia at) Wounds during War Lost
during War
(Seven Pines, June 1, 1862)
20th
Indiana 201* 14.3%*
87th
New York 29 2.8%
(King’s
School House, June 25, 1862)
1st United
States Sharpshooters 153* 10.9%*
(Malvern
Hill, July 1, 1862)
18th
New York 39 3.5%
31st
New York 71 7.6%
95th
Pennsylvania 182* 9.2%
(Crampton’s
Gap, September 14, 1862)
8th
Pennsylvania Cavalry 60
(Chancellorsville,
April 30-May 1, 1863)
1st
Delaware 158* 7.6%
12th
New Jersey 177* 9.5%
106th
Pennsylvania 104 9.7%
(Gettysburg,
July 2, 1863)
140th
Pennsylvania 198* 17.4%*
(Bradshaw’s
Farm, May 8, 1864)
51st
Pennsylvania# 177* 8.6%
(Spotsylvania,
May 12, 1864)
1st
Vermont Heavy Artillery 164* 7.1%
62nd
New York 98
(Gurley
House, June 23, 1864)
Regiment Killed
or Died of Percentage
(Foe
of 12th Virginia at) Wounds
during War Lost during War
14th
New York Heavy Artillery 226* 9.0%
(Globe
Tavern, August 19, 1864)
155th
New York 115 13.8%*[3]
170th
New York 129 12.8%*
(Second
Reams Station, August 25, 1864)
63rd
Pennsylvania# 186* 13.8%*
105th
Pennsylvania+ 245* 12.2%*
(Burgess
Mill, October 27, 1864)
12th Virginia 159* 10.3%*
Average
Union Regiment 5.0%
*
Meets criterion for inclusion in Fox’s Fighting 300 Regiments (130 or 10%
killed or died of wounds).
#
Lost a flag to the 12th Virginia that day.
+
Lost two flags to the 12th Virginia that day.
[1] My figures come from Fox, Regimental Losses; Samuel P. Bates, History
of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, Prepared in Compliance with Acts of the
Legislature (5 Volumes) (Harrisburg, 1869); and Frederick Phisterer, New York in the War of the Rebellion (5
Volumes) (Albany, 1912).
[2] Adjusted by Fox to 17.9%.
[3] Despite the percentage loss, Fox
did not include the 155th among his Fighting 300 Regiments.
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