. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . JOHN SEDGWICK,Commanding Sixth Corps. Killed at Spottsylvania, May 9, 1864. federates fell back to Richmond, and the regiment returned tothe position in the line behind the works on the WilliamsburgRoad. On returning to the old camp it was found devastatedand all the equipage lost. LOSSES AT FAIR OAKS. Killed,wounded and missing as per General McClellans report: Union—Sumner, 1223 Heintzelman, ^394 Keyes, 3120—Total, 5737. Killed, wounded and missing a
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . JOHN SEDGWICK,Commanding Sixth Corps. Killed at Spottsylvania, May 9, 1864. federates fell back to Richmond, and the regiment returned tothe position in the line behind the works on the WilliamsburgRoad. On returning to the old camp it was found devastatedand all the equipage lost. LOSSES AT FAIR OAKS. Killed,wounded and missing as per General McClellans report: Union—Sumner, 1223 Heintzelman, ^394 Keyes, 3120—Total, 5737. Killed, wounded and missing as per General J. E. John-sons report. Cojifederate—Longstreet and Smith, 4283 D. H. Hill, 2500—Total, 6783. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 49. The following is an extract from Report of GeneralKeyes, the corps commander: * * * At a little past twooclock I ordered Neills Twenty-third and Rippeys Sixty-first Pennsylvania Regiments to move to the support ofCaseys right. Neill attacked the enemy twice with greatgallantry. In the first attackthe enemy were driven back ;in the second attack, andunder the immediate com-mand of General Couch,these two regiments assaileda vastly superior force of theenemy and fought with ex-traordinary bravery, thoughcompelled at last to retire,they brought in thirty-fiveprisoners. Both regimentswere badly cut up. Afterthis attack the Twenty-thirdtook part in the hard fight-ing which closed the day nearSeven Pines. * * * Some of the Tenth Massachusetts, now underthe command of Captain Miller; the Ninety-third Pennsyl-vania, under Colonel McCarter, of Pecks Brigade; theTwenty-third Pennsylvania, under Colonel Neill, of Aber-crombies Brigade ; a portion of the Thirty-sixth New York,Colonel Innes ; a po
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