. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . ntry. ABOVE ONE HUNDRED AND (ist Artillery Reserves) ; 28th, 69th, 95th, and Ii6th Infantry. ABOVE ONE , nth, i6th, 17th Cavalry; 41st Infantry (12th Reserves), 23d, 26th,29th, s6th, 71st, 73d, 82d, 88th, 90th, 91st and i88th Infantry. ABOVE FIFTY. Second, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, T4th, i8th Cavalry; 31st (2d Reserves), 32d(3d Reserves), 33d (4th Reserves), 36th (7th Reserves), 58th, 67th, 68th, 74th, 7Sth,104th, 109th, 114th, 147th, 183d, 187th and 203d Infantry. *Dyers Compendium. 298 BATTLES IN WHICH PHILADELPHIA TROO
. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . ntry. ABOVE ONE HUNDRED AND (ist Artillery Reserves) ; 28th, 69th, 95th, and Ii6th Infantry. ABOVE ONE , nth, i6th, 17th Cavalry; 41st Infantry (12th Reserves), 23d, 26th,29th, s6th, 71st, 73d, 82d, 88th, 90th, 91st and i88th Infantry. ABOVE FIFTY. Second, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, T4th, i8th Cavalry; 31st (2d Reserves), 32d(3d Reserves), 33d (4th Reserves), 36th (7th Reserves), 58th, 67th, 68th, 74th, 7Sth,104th, 109th, 114th, 147th, 183d, 187th and 203d Infantry. *Dyers Compendium. 298 BATTLES IN WHICH PHILADELPHIA TROOPS SUSTAINED THEGREATEST LOSSES OF ANY COMMANDS IN ACTION.* KiUed, Wounded. and Missing. Fair Oaks 6ist Regiment 263 Shepherdstown iiSth Regiment 269 Fort Stevens, D. C 98th Regiment 36 Strawberry Plains lioth Regiment 31 Fort Fisher 203d Regiment 191 Sailors Creek 82d Regiment 89 Brandy Station 6th Cavalry 29 Wilsons Raid nth Cavalry 183 White Sulphur Springs 14th Cavalry 102 Shepherdstown (July, 1863) i6th Cavalry 24 BOY SOLDIERS OF 6I-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 to go down to the Na
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