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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 7: muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics. (search)
rs there were 3,613 who were over 6 feet 3 inches, and among them were some who were over 7 feet. The tallest man for whose stature the testimony is complete and unimpeachable, is Captain Van Buskirk, of the Twenty-seventh Indiana. General Silas Colgrove, formerly colonel of that regiment writes that he has frequently seen him measured and that his stature was full 82 1/2 inches, without his shoes, or 209.5 centimeters. General Colgrove adds that he was a brave man, and bore the fatiguesGeneral Colgrove adds that he was a brave man, and bore the fatigues of marching as well as most men of ordinary stature. The shortest man for whom the record is satisfactorily verified was a member of the One Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio. At the time of enlistment he was 24 years old, and 40 inches in height. Colonel F. W. Butterfield, his commanding officer, vouches for the correctness of this record. He also assures us that he knew the man well; and, that there was no soldier in his command who could endure a greater amount of fatigue and exposure.--D
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)
served next in Davis's (2d) Division, Fourteenth Corps. Twenty-Seventh Indiana Infantry. Ruger's Brigade — Williams's Division--Twelfth Corps. Colonel Silas Colgrove; Bvt. Brig.-Gen. companies. killed and died of wounds. died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. Total Enrollment. Officers. Men. Total. Officers.Pa. 40 On Picket 1 Gunboat service 1     Present, also, at Front Royal, Va.; Cassville, Ga., Dallas, Ga.; Lost Mountain, Ga.; Kenesaw, Ga. notes.--Silas Colgrove was the typical old-fashioned Colonel of the American Army. At times, brave and courageous to a fault; at others, careful and judicious to an admirable degre wounded, and 1 missing At Resaca, Ga., the regiment captured the colors and the Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Alabama, together with a large number of prisoners, Colgrove handling his men well in this fight, the loss not exceeding 68 killed and wounded, while it inflicted five times that on the enemy. In 1864 the designation of t
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, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each. (search)
as a well-known and efficient command. The 9th Indiana Battery lost 29 men killed in a boiler explosion on the Steamer Eclipse, January 27, 1865, at Paducah, Ky.; the 9th Cavalry lost 78 men on the Steamer Sultana; and the 69th Infantry lost 2 officers and 20 men drowned by the swamping of a boat in Matagorda Bay. Many of the noted generals of the war were Indianians: Generals Lew. Wallace, Hovey, Jefferson C. Davis, Meredith, Wagner, Jos. J. Reynolds, Kimball, Foster, Cruft, Harrow, Colgrove, Miller, Cameron, Gresham, Coburn, Hascall, Harrison, Veatch, Manson, Benton, Scribner, Wilder, Grose, and others. The age and height of 118,254 Indiana soldiers (out of about 200,000 enlistments) was recorded, with the following interesting result: Height. No. of men. Height. No. of men. Age. No. of men. Age. No. of men. Under 5 ft. 1 in. 501 At 5 ft. 10 in. 15,047 Under 17 years 270 At 26 years 4,283 At 5 ft. 1 in. 263 At 5 ft. 11 in. 8,706 At 17 years 634 At 27 years 3,7