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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 8: Corps organizations. (search)
the last campaign of the First Corps; for in March, 1864, the organization was ordered discontinued and transferred to the Fifth Corps, the brigades having been consolidated into two divisions, which, under Robinson and Wadsworth, became respectively the Second and Fourth Divisions of the Fifth Corps. This was an act of gross injustice, and a cruel violation of the corps pride. It was entirely unnecessary; and a serious blunder, instead of an improvement on the army organization. General Humpreys: Virginia Campaign, pp. 3 and 4. The men were, however, allowed to wear their old First Corps badges, a concession highly valued, as they had made The little flannel discs synonymous with all that was gallant and grand in war. The corps had contained some exceptionally good material. The division composed of the Pennsylvania Reserves had no equal in thle Army as a division, while the Iron Brigade was famous for its hard fighting, its percentage of killed exceeding that of any other