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Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania Infantry.

Graham's Brigade — Birney's Division--Third Corps.

(1) Col. William Maxwell. (3) Col. Peter sides.
(2) Col. Charles T. Campbell; Brig. Gen. (4) Col. George Zinn; Bvt. Brig. Gen.

companies. killed and died of wounds. died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. Total Enrollment.
Officers. Men. Total. Officers. Men. Total.
Field and Staff 2 1 3       18
Company A 1 17 18   20 20 210
  B   16 16   26 26 172
  C   20 20   24 24 166
  D 1 13 14   25 25 166
  E 3 14 17   17 17 142
  F   15 15   19 19 145
  G   14 14   19 19 124
  H 1 13 14   16 16 134
  I 3 11 14   26 26 152
  K 1 15 16   25 25 162
Totals 12 149 161   217 217 1,591

161 killed == 10.1 per cent.

Total of killed and wounded, 593; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 50.

battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W.
Yorktown, Va. 1 Wilderness, Va. 38
Fair Oaks, Va. 16 Spotsylvania, Va. 8
Glendale, Va. 13 North Anna, Va. 2
Malvern Hill, Va. 2 Cold Harbor, Va. 1
Manassas, Va. 1 Siege of Petersburg, Va. 8
Fredericksburg, Va. 28 Peeble's Farm, Va. 1
Chancellorsville, Va. 20 Boydton Road, Va. 2
Gettysburg, Pa. 18 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 1
Mine Run, Va. 1    

Present, also, at Williamsburg; Chantilly; Kelly's Ford; Po River; Totopotomoy; Strawberry Plains; Deep Bottom; Sailor's Creek; Appomattox.

notes.--Organized at Harrisburg, Pa., having been recruited mostly in the western part of the State. It arrived at Washington in December, 1861, where it remained a couple of months, and then marched into Virginia, encamping near Alexandria. With the Army of the Potomac, it took the field early in 1862, under General McClellan, and was actively engaged in the siege operations at Yorktown. It was then in Jameson's Brigade, Kearny's Division, Third Corps. At Fair Oaks it lost 11 killed, 48 wounded, and 1 missing, Major Culp being among the killed. At Fredericksburg, out of 316 present, there was a loss of 18 killed, 80 wounded, and 52 missing, many of the latter being killed or wounded. In that battle the brigade was commanded by General J. H. Ward. At Chancellorsville the loss was 10 killed, 43 wounded, and 18 missing; at Gettysburg, 11 killed, 46 wounded, and 58 missing; at the Wilderness, 22 killed, 128 wounded, and 3 missing. These were the casualties as officially reported. Upon the discontinuance of the Third Corps the regiment became a part of Alex. Hays's Brigade, Birney's (3d) Division, Second Corps. The hard fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania reduced the ranks so that it was consolidated into a battalion of six companies. In January, 1865, it received an accession of four companies from the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania, which had also been consolidated previous to the transfer. Lieutenant-Colonel Zinn of the Eighty-fourth was made Colonel of the Fifty-seventh. The regiment was mustered out June 29, 1865.


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