. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rd (1st Artillery Reserves) ; 28th, 69th, 95th, and 116th Infantry. ABOVE ONE HUNDRED. Seventh, nth, 16th, 17th Cavalry; 41st Infantry (12th Reserves), 23d, 26th,29th, 56th, 71st, 73d, 82d, 88th. 90th, 91st and 188th Infantry. ABOVE FIFTY. Second, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 18th Cavalry; 31st (2d Reserves), 32d(3d Reserves), 33d (4th Reserves), 36th (7th Reserves), 58th, 67th, 68th, 74th, 75th,104th, 109th, 114th, 147th, 183d, 187th and 203d Infantry. *Dyers Compendium. 298 BATTLES IX WHICH PHILADELPHIA TROOPS SUSTAINED THEGREAT
. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rd (1st Artillery Reserves) ; 28th, 69th, 95th, and 116th Infantry. ABOVE ONE HUNDRED. Seventh, nth, 16th, 17th Cavalry; 41st Infantry (12th Reserves), 23d, 26th,29th, 56th, 71st, 73d, 82d, 88th. 90th, 91st and 188th Infantry. ABOVE FIFTY. Second, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 18th Cavalry; 31st (2d Reserves), 32d(3d Reserves), 33d (4th Reserves), 36th (7th Reserves), 58th, 67th, 68th, 74th, 75th,104th, 109th, 114th, 147th, 183d, 187th and 203d Infantry. *Dyers Compendium. 298 BATTLES IX WHICH PHILADELPHIA TROOPS SUSTAINED THEGREATEST LOSSES OF ANY COMMANDS IX ACTION.* Fair Oaks Shepherdstown Fort Stevens, D. C Strawberry Plains Fort Fisher . Sailors Creek Brandy Station Wilsons Raid . White Sulphur Shepherdstown (July, 1863) Killed, Wounded and Missing. .61st Regiment .263 . 118th Regiment .269 .98th Regiment 36 . 110th Regiment •• 31 .203d .191 .82c! Regiment. .. 89 .6th Cavalry 29 .nth Cavalry .183 .14th Cavalry ...102 .16th Cavalry 24 BOY SOLDIERS OF 61=65. I N the course of a recent editorial in the SaturdayEvening Post it was stated that the Union Armiesof the Civil War included eight hundred andforty-six thousand boys sixteen years of age orless, one million one hundred and fifty thousand ofeighteen years or less, and that ninety thousand boysdied in battle or from disease while in the boy wanted to be a soldier. Thousands ofmothers trembled as they watched the martial fever layhold upon the veins of their school-boy sons. Thou-sands of these children wept as the mustering officerturned them away from the doors of the recruiting sta-tions. In every vacant lot infant officers were drillingtheir puerile squads. It was hard in those stirring daysto be so young, when the best one could do was tomarch along abreast of the stunning bands of thenever-ending regiments of other and older boys, ontheir way to the waiting military trains at Broad andPrime streets, or t
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