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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
rches. In August, 1863, it went to Folly Island, S. C., taking part in the operations about Charleston Harbor; then, on February 23, 1864, sailed for Florida, encamping at Jacksonville until April 21st, when the Division embarked for the battle-fields of Virginia. Arriving at Yorktown, it was assigned to Drake's (2d) Brigade, Ames's (3d) Division, Tenth Corps, Army of the James, and soon after sailed up the James River to Bermuda Hundred, where it disembarked on the 6th of May. Lieutenant-Colonel Carpienter, a very popular officer, was mortally wounded at Drewry's Bluff (May 16th), and Colonel Drake, who was in command of the brigade, was killed at Cold Harbor, where, in an assault, the regiment lost 28 killed, 140 wounded, and 12 missing. At Chaffin's Farm, its casualty list showed 6 killed, 38 wounded, and 16 missing; and at Darbytown Road, 4 killed, 28 wounded, and 3 missing. In December, 1864, it sailed with Ames's Division to Fort Fisher, N. C., where it took a prominent part i