Pennsylvania 62d Infantry Regiment Regimental History: Casualties Monument at Gettysburg dedicated to the Pennsylvania 62d Infantry Regiment on September 11, 1889 photo from Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, 1893

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Excerpt from Fox's Regimental Losses

Companies

Comparisons

Individual Campaigns

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If the regiment was full on 24 July 1861, it may have had 1000 to 1200 soldiers. Its total enrollment, including replacements, was approximately 1600. Before its first battle, the regiment had already lost many soldiers to typhoid fever and other diseases. By the start of the Gettysburg campaign, the regiment was reported to have 26 officers and 400 privates. Before the Battle in the Wilderness, the regiment totaled 557, including officers and enlisted.

	Figures from Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, Harrisburg: 1893.	Figures from Frederick H. Dyer's A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines: 1908.
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded	17	17
Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded	147	152
Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident	77	89
Aggregate Killed	241	258
Officers Wounded	30
Enlisted Wounded	473
Aggregate Wounded	503
Officers Captured or Missing	5
Enlisted Captured or Missing	153
Aggregate Captured or Missing	158
Aggregate	902

Casualties and Brief History,
excerpted from Fox's Regimental Losses in the American Civil War

The following text is a transcription of a transcription. The original is an excerpt from Fox's Regimental Losses in the American Civil War. I transcribed a passage from Centennial anniversary of the founding of Monongahela City, Pa. : celebrated November 15th, 1892. Monongahela City : C. W. Hazzard, 1895 (Available online through the Historic Pittsburgh Full Text Collection) that quoted Regimental Losses.

Recruited in July, 1861, encamped in Virginia in September, 1861, and after six months of drill, discipline and field duty, confronted the enemy at the seige of Yorktown. After the fall of Yorktown, in May, 1862, it moved up the peninsula, then in Griffith's Brigade, Morrell's Division, Fifth Corpt, in which command it fought at Gaines' Mills. Colonel Black was killed in that battle, the regiment losing 15 killed, 73 wounded, and 76 missing. It was engaged four days later at Malvern Hill, where its colors were cut down five times, but borne from the field flying. At Gettysburg the Division was commanded by General Barnes. It fought there in the historic wheat-field, the 62d losing in that battle 28 killed, 107 wounded, and 40 missing. The winter of 1863-64 was passed quietly in winter quarters. When in May, 1864, with 557 men, the regiment entered upon the bloody campaign which occurred between May 6th and June 18th of that year. In the hard fight about Spottsylvania it lost 14 killed, including the commander (Lieutenant-Colonel James C. H[u]ll, 112 wounded and 18 missing. "The 62d, during its active service, was always in the Second Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Colonel Sweitzer commanding the Brigade during most of the time, and took part in the following engagements: Yorktown, Gaines' Mills, Malvern Hill, Harrison's Landing, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Ann[a], Tolopotomy, Bethesda Church and Petersburg. Present also at Hanover C. H., Seven Days, Manassas, Antietam, Shepherdstown, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run. "Losses: 169 killed, 10.7 per cent; total killed and wounded 633; died in Confederate prisons, 8; mustered out of service July 13, 1864, its term of service having expired."

Companies

These statistics are derived a John Lewis Cribbs (Company E) Web site compiled by John Michael Cribbs. His source, I believe, was
Fox, William F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War,1861-1865. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1985 reprint. A footnote at the bottom of Cribbs table indicates that 8 soldiers from the 62d died in prison camps and that the total of killed and wounded was 633.

Company	Officers Killed	Enlisted Killed	Aggregate Killed	Died of Disease (or accident)	Aggregate Casualties
Field and Staff	5	--	5	--	17
A	1	10	11	6	105
B	0	9	9	8	106
C	1	10	11	8	112
D	2	8	10	8	130
E	0	14	14	13	158
F	0	20	20	2	142
G	2	19	21	6	161
H	2	16	18	9	135
I	1	10	11	8	114
K	1	9	10	10	148
L	0	18	18	5	118
M	2	9	11	6	125
Totals	17	152	169	89	1571

NOTES: No officers were listed as dying from disease or accident.

Comparisons

	Most		Second Most
Officers Killed	Gettysburg	4	Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor	2
Enlisted Killed	Gettysburg	24	Gaines Mill	14
Officers Wounded	Gettysburg	10	Fredericksburg and The Wilderness	8
Enlisted Wounded	Spottsylvania	107	Gettysburg	97
Officers Missing or Captured	Gaines Mill	3	The Wilderness	1
Enlisted Missing or Captured	Gaines Mill	74	Gettysburg	40
Officers Aggregate	Gettysburg	10	Fredericksburg	8
Enlisted Aggregate	Gettysburg	161	Gaines Mill	156
Killed	Gettysburg	28	Gaines Mill	15
Wounded	Spottsylvania	112	Gettysburg	107
Missing or Captured	Gaines Mill	77	Gettysburg	40
Aggregate	Gettysburg	175	Gaines Mill	164

Individual Campaigns

Return of Casualties, Peninsular Campaign/Seven Days Battles, 25 June to 2 July 1862

The Peninsular Campaign included, for the 62d, Yorktown, Mechanicsville, and the Seven Days Battles. In some of the battles the regiment was held in reserve or saw little action. Most of the 62d Pennsylvania's casualties occurred at the Battle at Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill. Numbers from "Return of Casualties in the Army of the Potomac during the operations before Richmond, Va., June 25-July 2, 1862, inclusive" and "Return of Casualties in the Union forces at the battle of Gaines Mill, Va., June 27, 1862." Tables in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902.

	Hanover Courthouse	Battle at Gaines' Mill	Peninsular Campaign
Officers Killed	0	1	2
Enlisted Killed	0	14	22
Aggregate Killed	0	15	24
Officers Wounded	0	5	10
Enlisted Wounded	8	68	164
Aggregate Wounded	8	73	174
Officers Captured or Missing	0	3	4
Enlisted Captured or Missing	0	74	81
Aggregate Captured or Missing	0	77	85
Aggregate	8	164	283

Return of Casualties, Battle at Fredericksburg, Va., 11-15 December 1862.

Numbers from tables in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902. I have been unable to locate a return of casualties for the battle at Chancellorsville. There were 136 for the entire First Division.

Officers Killed	2
Enlisted Killed	5
Aggregate Killed	7
Officers Wounded	8
Enlisted Wounded	55
Aggregate Wounded	63
Officers Captured or Missing	0
Enlisted Captured or Missing	0
Aggregate Captured or Missing	0
Aggregate	70

Return of Casualties, Battle at Gettysburg, 2 July 1963.

Figures based on a transcript of a monument engraving at Gettysburg, and confirmed by tables in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902.

Officers Killed	4
Enlisted Killed	24
Aggregate Killed	28
Officers Wounded	10
Enlisted Wounded	97
Aggregate Wounded	107
Officers Captured or Missing	0
Enlisted Captured or Missing	40
Aggregate Captured or Missing	40
Aggregate (out of 426)	175

Return of Casualties, Campaign of Maneuvers (Mine Run) 27 November 1863.

The Return of Casualties for Rappahannock Station was none. Bates indicates that 7 were wounded. A table in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902) indicates that 7 were captured.

Officers Killed	0
Enlisted Killed	0
Officers Wounded	0
Enlisted Wounded	7?
Officers Captured or Missing	0
Enlisted Captured or Missing	7?
Aggregate	7 or 14

Overland Campaign Casualties, 5 May to 3 June 1864.

The Overland Campaign included, for the 62d, battles at The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna, Totopotomoy, Bethesda Church, and Cold Harbor. In some of the battles the regiment was held in reserve or saw little action. Numbers from tables in The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902.

	The Wilderness	Spottsylvania Court House	North Anna, Pamunkey, and Totopotomoy	Cold Harbor and Bethesda Church	Aggregate for the Campaign
Officers Killed	0	1	0	2	3
Enlisted Killed	0	13	1	3	17
Aggregate Killed	0	14	1	5	20
Officers Wounded	8	5	0	1	14
Enlisted Wounded	47	107	13	24	191
Aggregate Wounded	55	112	13	25	205
Officers Captured or Missing	1	0	0	0	1
Enlisted Captured or Missing	5	18	1	0	24
Aggregate Captured or Missing	6	18	1	0	25
Aggregate	61	144	15	30	250

Return of Casualties, Petersburg Campaign, 18 and 21 June 1864.

Officers Killed	0
Enlisted Killed	1
Officers Wounded	0
Enlisted Wounded	12
Officers Captured or Missing	0
Enlisted Captured or Missing	0
Aggregate	13

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This page authored and maintained by John R. Henderson (jhenderson@ithaca.edu), Lodi, NY.
First created for the Web:13 January 2002
Last modified: 11 April 2006
John R. Henderson's grandfather, John G. Henderson, had an uncle, John Henderson, a resident of Elders Ridge in Indiana County, who was a soldier in Company D.
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