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Battle: Lee's Mill April 16, 1862
Battle: The Wilderness May 5-10, 1864
Battle: Hawses's Shope (Cold Harbor) June 3, 1864
History: 5th Vermont Infantry
Regiment
History: 6th Corps
As we go about our research of our ancestors we all have the tendency to
wonder if we have a veteran of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, The Civil
War, or any war. It is always a nice discovery when we do find that ancestor
so our children and our decendants can share that part of history.
Philip Bovat Beauvais is an ancestor to my wife. He was born in Chambly, Quebec and came to Highgate, Vermont with his parents and siblings. When the war broke out he joined the Union Army with three of his brothers. Philip enlisted on September 9, 1861 and mustered in on September 16, 1861. He was assigned to Company C of the 5th Vermont Infantry. Philip was wounded three times during the Civil War. He suffered his first wound on April 16, 1862 in the Battle at Lee's Mills, Virginia. Philip was wounded again on May 5, 1864 at the Wilderness and after rejoining his company he was wounded for the third time on June 3, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia. Philip mustered out of the service on September 15, 1864.
Listed below in brief form are the three battles that Philip Bovat Beauvais was wounded in, the history of the Vermont 5th Infantry, and the Sixth Corps. The information was on the three battles and the Vermont 5th Infantry were obtained from "Vermont in the Civil War" by Tom Ledoux. The information on the sixth Corps was obtained from "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War (1861-1865) by William F. Fox.
Battle of Lee's Mill April 16, 1862
The engagement known as that of Lee's Mill, was a notable one, as being
the first assault on an entrenched line made by the Army of the Potomac,
as an exhibition of remarkable bravery in the troops engaged, and as one
of the bloodiest actions, in proportion to numbers engaged, in which the
Vermont troops took part during the war. It was also one of the most useless
wastes of life and most lamentable of unimproved opportunities recorded
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The Wilderness May 5-10, 1864
The opening battle of Grant's sustained offensive against the Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia, known as the Overland Campaign, was fought at
the Wilderness, May 5-7. On the morning of May 5, 1864, the Union V Corps
attacked Ewell's Corps on the Orange Turnpike, while A.P. Hill's corps during
the afternoon encountered Getty's Division (VI Corps) and Hancock's II Corps
on the Plank Road. Fighting was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted
to maneuver in the dense woods. Darkness halted the fighting, and both sides
rushed forward reinforcements. At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along
the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion. Longstreet's Corps
arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank.
At noon, a devastating Confederate flank attack in Hamilton's Thicket sputtered
out when Lt. Gen. James Longstreet was wounded by his own men. The IX Corps
(Burnside) moved against the Confederate center, but was repulsed. Union
generals James S. Wadsworth and Alexander Hays were killed. Confederate
generals John M. Jones, Micah Jenkins, and Leroy A. Stafford were killed.
The battle was a tactical draw. Grant, however, did not retreat as had the
other Union generals before him. On May 7, the Federals advanced by the
left flank toward the crossroads of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Source:
ABPP Battle Summaries [top]
Hawses's Shope (Cold Harbor) June 3, 1864
It was part of Grant's plan of the battle of Cold Harbor that Wilson's division
should co-operate in the general assault of June 3d by moving out from its
position on the extreme right and attacking the enemy's left, held by Early's
division, in flank and rear. In order to get within striking distance, Wilson
moved his division during the night previous from Hanover Court House across
the Pamunkey and to within about two miles of Hawes's Shop, where he bivouacked
till daylight. Moving forward in the morning of the 3d, he soon encountered
Barringer's brigade of Fitzhugh Lee's division, occupying rifle-pits which
had been dug by the infantry in some previous operations. In disposing his
command for attack, the First Vermont was placed to the extreme left of
the division. There was some skirmishing for an hour or two, when, about
ten o'clock A. M., the men were dismounted and moved to the front through
a piece of woods. They soon became engaged with the enemy, the skirmishers
on each side firing from behind the trees, Indian fashion. Seeing a line
of men in front at a point midway between the main lines, which he probably
supposed to be Union troops, Preston went toward it on foot. Suddenly he
was fired on and a ball passed through his body near the heart. Major Wells,
in front of whose battalion he fell, at once advanced the line in order
to secure his body. The advance was obstinately resisted, and two attempts
to reach the spot were unsuccessful. In a third attempt the enemy's line
was driven back long enough to enable Sergeant Ide and some men of company
D, Preston's old company, to crawl forward and reach the colonel. He was
found speechless, but still living, and was taken back a short distance
and placed upon a horse to take him to the rear, but his brave spirit had
left his body before a surgeon could reach him. One of the men who rescued
him, H. P. Danforth, was wounded, receiving injuries from the effect of
which he died two months after. Captain Cushman of company E was also killed
nearly at the same time, and not far from the same place, as Colonel Preston.*1*
A little later the enemy was driven from the rifle pits, and withdrew on the road running east toward Enon Church. General Wilson then attacked the enemy's left rear on the road running south from Hawes's Shop, where he drove back an infantry brigade of three regiments. But failing to connect with Burnside's infantry, which was near Bethesda Church, Wilson withdrew to Hawes's Shop, where he received the general order suspending further offensive operations, in consequence of the bloody repulses of the Second, Sixth and Eighteenth Corps. A little church at the junction of the roads opposite Hawes's Shop, known as Salem Church, as given this engagement in some reports the title of "Salem Church." It s more frequent title in both Union and Confederate accounts is "Hawes's Shop." It was I fact part of the general battle of Cold Harbor.
The third day of June 1864, was a sad day to the regiment. The loss of two such officers as Colonel Preston and Captain Cushman was a serious blow to the command, and it is not too much to say that the loss of Preston was felt not only throughout the regiment and brigade, but throughout the Cavalry Corps. The loss of the regiment was three killed and five wounded.*2*
Upon the death of Colonel Preston the command of the regiment devolved upon Major Wells, who was soon promoted to the vacant colonelcy.*3*
Major Bennett was advanced to be lieutenant colonel and Captains Grover and Paige were commissioned as majors. *4*
The regiment remained in the vicinity of Hawes's Shop until the 6th, when it moved with the brigade (which about this time was strengthened by the addition of the First New Hampshire cavalry), to Bottom's Bridge, on the extreme right of the army, where on the 10th a slight picket skirmish took place in which one man was wounded. The regiment was engaged in picketing the north bank of the Chickahominy at that point and at Long Bridge, five miles below, for five days.
On the 12th of June began the preliminary movements of the march of the Army of the Potomac to the James river. The task of masking and covering the main movement was committed to Wilson's cavalry and the Fifth Corps. In the performance of its part of this duty, the regiment broke camp with the division in the evening of the 12th; crossed the Chickahominy on pontons at Long Bridge at one A. M. of the 13th, and marched to White Oak Swamp, reaching White Oak Bridge about daylight. Here the enemy was encountered in force, and a sharp skirmish took place. On the arrival of the infantry the enemy fell back and Wilson moved on with his main column toward Riddle's Shop, at the junctions of the Charles City road with the road to Malvern Hill. Here Chapman's brigade, in advance, encountered Barringer's brigade of cavalry, and an additional mounted force posted I the woods on the farther side of an open field. Into this field the First Vermont moved with Chapman's brigade, and the men were dismounted under a fire by which several men and horses were wounded. The Eighth New York then charged the enemy in flank while a battery shelled them, and after a short resistance, they were driven back with considerable loss. The brigade then advanced about half a mile, extemporized some breastworks of fence rails, and awaited an attack, which came at the end of an hour, when an infantry line advanced and drove Chapman back to the edge of the woods. The brigade then fell back to its horses and the regiment mounted and prepared to charge the enemy as soon as they should leave the cover. This, however, they did not do, and some desultory skirmishing and artillery firing occupied the afternoon till about sundown, when a portion of Crawford's division of Pennsylvania troops came up and took position to the right of the cavalry. At dark the enemy charge from the woods, scattering the infantry skirmishers, but were held in check by the First New Hampshire and First Vermont, till the guns of the battery were withdrawn, when they fell back t the infantry supports. The division soon started forward and at three A. M. of the 14th bivouacked near Saint Mary's Church, ten miles to the southeast. The First Vermont was on the skirmish line, dismounted most of the time, from eleven A. M. to eight P. M. of the 13th, and lost during the day one man killed, 11 wounded and three missing. This action appears in the official list of engagements, under an erroneous date, as 'Ridley's Shop, June 30th.*5*
On the 14th the regiment proceeded to Harrison's Landing, and toward night the First Vermont and Eighth New York with a section of a battery were sent out to reconnoitre toward Malvern Hill. After going two miles they halted for the night. Proceeding next morning, they met the enemy at Turkey Island Creek, which curves about the base of Malvern Hill. The Eighth New York, which was in advance, having been driven back, the First Vermont was dismounted and advanced to the creek. Here Lieutenant Williamson of company K, received a gunshot wound in the thigh from which he died five days later.*6* The position was held until dark, with a loss of three men wounded, when they returned to the division, which moved to Wilcox's Landing. There the regiment with the division and the Sixth Corps remained covering the crossing of the army, until the morning of the 17th, when it crossed the James river on the long ponton bridge, bringing up the rear of the army, and marched to Prince George Court House, where the regiment bivouacked at ten P. M. Half an hour later it was sent back to Wilcox's Landing to guard some cattle which were being taken across the river. The cattle, however, had already gone across when at daylight the regiment arrived at the river, and the bridge had been taken up. The regiment rested till four P. M., and then returned to the brigade, having marched sixty miles in twenty-four hours.
Source: VermontCivilWar.Org
Database
Contributor: Tom Ledoux.
5th Vermont Infantry Regimental History from the 1892 Revised Roster
by Hon. Lewis Addison Grant, (Assistant Secretary
of War)
Brigadier and Brevet Major-General U. S. Vols
John R. Lewis, Colonel Fifth Regiment
Brevet Brigadier-General U. S. Vols.
Charles G. Gould, Captain and Brevet Major Fifth Regiment.
The Fifth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, was composed of companies organized at the following towns, the men composing them being enlisted from these and adjoining towns: Company A, St. Albans; B, Middlebury; C, Swanton; D, Hyde Park; E, Manchester; F, Cornwall; G, Rutland; H, Brandon; I, detachments from Burlington, Poultney and Tinmouth; K, Richmond
The regiment was mustered into the United States service for three years at St. Albans, Vt., Sept. 16, 1861, and in a few days went to Washington and camped on Meridian Hill, then crossed Chain Bridge into Virginia and joined other Vermont regiments at Camp Advance, when the Old Vermont Brigade was organized.
The regiment spent most of the fall and winter of 1861-62 at Camp Griffin, near Langley, Va., going to Fortress Monroe in the spring of 1862 and taking part in the Peninsula Campaign. At Savage's Station, June 29, 1862, it suffered the greatest loss, in killed and wounded, of any Vermont regiment in any one engagement. It this battle, with not over four hundred muskets, it lost 188 officers and men in half an hour--company E losing 44 men killed and wounded out of fifty-nine, 25 of whom were killed or mortally wounded. It was here that five Cummings brothers, and one cousin, of company E, were all killed or wounded, only one of the six recovering from his wounds. Returning in August, the regiment marched out across Cub Run, near the second Bull Run battle field. It then joined in the Maryland Campaign. Returning to Virginia, it encamped during the winter of 1862-3 near Fredericksburg, taking part in the campaign near that place in 1863, and in the Gettysburg campaign. From Gettysburg it went into Virginia, and thence to New york at the time of the draft riot. Returning to the Army of the Potomac it took part in the fall campaign in Virginia. It encamped during the winter of 1863-64 near Brandy Station, where it re-enlisted, Dec. 15, 1863, being the first regiment to re-enlist and go home on a veteran furlough. In 1864 it took an active part in the terrible campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg June 17. It went into this campaign with about five hundred muskets, and in one month lost 349 men in killed, wounded and missing, including two field officers, six captains and five lieutenants.
In July the regiment returned and assisted in driving Early from Washington, following him into the valley and becoming a part of the Army of the Shenandoah. Sept. 15, 1864, the term of the original members of the regiment who had not re-enlisted expired, and they were mustered out at Clifton, Va., leaving present for duty with the regiment one assistant surgeon, a quartermaster, three first lieutenants and about three hundred men. This fragment of a regiment participated in SHeridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, from Winchester to Mont Crawford and return. Dec. 9 the regiment left the valley and returned to Petersburg, going into winter quarters, Dec. 13, near the Squirrel Level Road, in the line south of Petersburg. It led the Sixth Corps in its assault upon the enemy's works at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and was the first regiment in the corps to plant its flag upon the enemy's works. It took part in the pursuit and capture of Lee's army, and after his surrender it marched to Danville, Va., to aid in preventing the escape of Johnston's army. It then went to Munson's Hill, near Washington, where it was mustered out of the service of the United States, June 29, 1865, and returned to Vermont to be finally discharged. At its muster-out but 24 officers and 288 men were borne upon its rolls--an aggregate of 312 out of a total enrollment of 1,618 during its entire term of service.
For ten months of its last year of service the highest rank of any of its officers present for duty was that of captain; for more than three months of this period none of the officers of the regiment present with it were above the rank of first lieutenant, and every officer that returned wit the regiment went out as a private in the ranks.
During its four years of service the regiment sustained the following losses: killed and died of wounds received in action, 11 officers, 202 men, a total of 213, or 13.8 per cent of its total enrollment. Its total of killed and wounded in battle during the war was 685. The deaths from disease and accident, in rebel prisons and from other causes, were 1 officer, 124 men. The total number of known deaths from all causes was 338. The Fifth was one of the forty-five infantry regiments, out of all the regiments of the Union armies, that lost over 200 men, killed or mortally wounded in battle during the War of the Rebellion. It bore an honorable and active part in the battles of Lee's Mills, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Dec., '62; Fredericksburg, May, '63; Fredericksburg, June, '63; Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Funkstown, Rappahannock Station, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Bloody Angle, Anderson's Farm, Jericho Ford, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, June, '64; Fort Stevens, Charlestown, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, March 25, 1865; Petersburg, April 2, 1865; Sailor's Creek, and other skirmished and reconnaissances.
Mustered into the service of the United States September 16, 1861. Original members, not veterans, mustered out of service September 15, 1864. Recruits for one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to October 1, 1865, mustered out of service June 19, 1865. Remainder of regiment mustered out of service June 29, 1865.
Source: VermontCivilWar.Org
Database.
Contributor: Tom Ledoux.
West Point; Gaines' Mill; Golding's Farm; Garnett's Farm; Savage Station; White Oak Swamp; Malvern Hill; Manassas; Crampton's Gap; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Marye's Heights; Salem Church; Banks' Ford; Gettysburg; Funkstown; Rappahannock Station; Mine Run; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Monocacy; Fort Stevens; Island Ford; Strasburg; Winchester; Charlestown; Opequon; Fisher's Hill; Cedar Creek; Fall Of Petersburg; Sailor's Creek; Appomattox.
The Sixth Provisional Corps was organized May 18, 1862, by uniting Franklin's Division, which had just arrived on the Peninsula, with General W. F. Smith's Division, which was taken away from the Fourth Corps for this purpose. This provisional arrangement having been sanctioned by the War Department, the command received its permanent designation as the Sixth Army Corps. General William B. Franklin was appointed corps commander, and General H. W. Slocum succeeded to the command of Franklin's Division. On June 20, 1862, the corps numbered 24,911, present and absent, with 19,405 present for duty, equipped; the corps artillery numbered 40 guns.
At Gaines' Mill, Slocum's Division was sent to the support of General Porter, and became hotly engaged, losing 2,021 men out of less than 8,000 present. The Vermont brigade of Smith's (2nd) Division took a prominent part in the fight at Savage Station, the Fifth Vermont losing 209 men in that action. The corps fought at other points during the Seven Days Battle, but at Malvern Hill it was held in reserve. At Manassas (Second Bull Run) it was partially engaged, the Jersey Brigade of Slocum's (1st) Division having a sharp fight on August 27th, at Bull Run Bridge, in which it lost 339 in killed, wounded and missing, General Taylor, the brigade commander, receiving a mortal wound. While on McClellan's campaign, Slocum's Division made a gallant and successful charge up.the mountain's side at Crampton's Gap, driving the enemy from a strong position; Slocum's loss was 113 killed, 418 wounded, and two missing; total, 533. The corps was under fire again at Antietam, but was only partially engaged; the third Brigade (Irwin's) of Smith's Division, took an active part, however, the Seventh Maine and Twentieth New York sustaining severe losses.
Important changes in the corps now took place. It received a valuable accession by the transfer of Couch's Division of the Fourth Corps, which now became the Third Division of the Sixth, with General John Newton in command. General Franklin was promoted to the command of the Left Grand Division, Sixth and First Corps, and General Smith succeeded to the command of the corps. General Slocum's able services were acknowledged by his promotion to the command of the Twelfth Corps, and General W. T. Brooks succeeded Slocum in command of the First Division, while General A. P. Howe succeeded to the command of Smith's (2nd) Division.
The next battle occurred at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, in which only a few regiments of the corps were engaged, although all were under a severe artillery fire. But the corps was engaged on the same field, May 3, 1863, in an action which made it famous on account of the brilliant display of dash and daring. When Hooker took the Army to Chancellorsville he left the Sixth Corps in front of Fredericksburg, which was still held by a strong force of the enemy. General Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the corps command, ordered an assault on Marye's Heights, and that strong position which had defied the assaults of the previous battle, was now carried by the Sixth Corps at the point of the bayonet. The divisions of Newton and Howe were the ones engaged; Brooks' (1st) Division was engaged later in the day, at Salem Church. The corps lost in this battle, 485 killed, 2,619 wounded, and 1,485 missing; total 4,589. The missing ones were, for the most part, lost in the action at Salem Church. On the day before this battle, the corps returns showed a strength of 23,730, "present for duty," of whom less than 20,000 were present in action.
The Gettysburg campaign came next, in which the divisions were commanded by Generals Wright, Howe, and Newton. The corps was held in reserve at Gettysburg, excepting Shaler's Brigade, which was sent into action as a support to the Twelfth Corps; several casualties, also, occurred in Eustis' and Wheaton's Brigades, of Newton's Division. During the pursuit of Lee's Army, after Gettysburg, the Vermont Brigade was engaged in a very creditable affair at Funkstown, Md., where this one brigade, drawn out in a skirmish line of over a mile in length, alone and unassisted, repelled a determined attack of a vastly superior force, which in massed columns charged this skirmish line repeatedly. The Vermonters sustained but slight loss, as they occupied a strong, natural position.
Having returned to Virginia, the corps participated, November 7, 1863, at Rappahannock Station in a successful assault on the enemy's entrenchment's. In this affair there was another display of that dash and gallantry which was so eminently characteristic of the Sixth Corps. The Sixth Maine and Fifth Wisconsin distinguished themselves particularly in this action, leading the storming party and carrying the works with the bayonet only. It was a brilliant success, resulting not only in a victory, but in the capture of a large number of prisoners, small arms, artillery and battle flags.
On the Mine Run campaign the divisions were commanded by Generals Wright, Howe, and H. D. Terry, but were not in action to any extent. The corps went into winter-quarters at Brandy Station. Upon the reorganization of the Army, in March, 1864, several changes were made. The Third Division was broken up, Shaler's Brigade being transferred to Wright's (1st) Division, while the brigades of Eustis and Wheaton were placed in the Second Division, the command of which was given to General Geo. W. Getty, an able officer who had served as a division-general in the Ninth Corps, and, also, in the Seventh Corps at the Siege of Suffolk.
The place of the Third Division was filled by the Third Division of the Third Corps, that corps having been discontinued; the command of this division was given to General Ricketts.
The corps now contained 49 regiments of infantry, an artillery brigade composed of 8 batteries of light artillery (48 guns), and a battalion of heavy artillery acting as infantry; numbering in all, 24,163, "present for duty, equipped."
In the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania it encountered the hardest contested fighting of its experience. At the Wilderness, the Vermont Brigade--Getty's Division--lost 1,232 men out of the 2,800 effectives that crossed the Rapidan on the previous day. At Spotsylvania, the Jersey Brigade of Wright's Division was engaged in a deadly struggle, the percentage of killed in the Fifteenth New Jersey being equaled in only one instance during the whole war. On May 10th--at Spotsylvania--General Upton led a storming party of twelve picked regiments selected from the Sixth Corps, which carried the Confederate works after a hand-to-hand fight in which bayonet wounds were freely given and received. On May 12th -- Spotsylvania -- the whole corps fought at the "Bloody Angle," where the fighting was the closest and deadliest of any recorded in the history of modern wars. General Sedgwick was killed at Spotsylvania, and General Wright succeeded to the command, General Russell succeeding Wright in the command of the First Division. The casualties of the corps at the Wilderness were, 719 killed, 3,660 wounded, 656 missing; total, 5,035; and at Spotsylvania, 688 killed, 2,820 wounded, 534 missing; total, 4,042.
In the assault at Cold Harbor, June 1st, 1864, the corps sustained another severe loss, 2,715 of its number falling, killed or wounded in that ill-advised attempt. Accompanying the Army to Petersburg it participated in the preliminary operations incidental to the investment of that stronghold. But its stay was of short duration, Early's invasion of Maryland necessitating a transfer of troops to confront him, and the heroes of Marye's Heights were selected for that duty. On July 6th, Ricketts' (3d) Division embarked at City Point, and, landing at Baltimore on the 8th, marched out to meet Early. This division took part in the battle at Monocacy on the following day, and, although unable to defeat Early, checked his advance. The other two divisions embarked on the 10th and, landing at Washington, attacked Early, whose advance had reached Fort Stevens, within the city limits. The brunt of this fight fell to the lot of Bidwell's (3d) Brigade, of Getty's (2d) Division, every regimental commandant in this brigade, but one, being either killed or wounded.
The corps followed in pursuit of Early through Maryland, into Virginia, and up the Shenandoah Valley. Sheridan was placed in command of the Army of the Shenandoah, which was composed of the Sixth, Eighth, and Nineteenth Corps, and its campaign of 1864, in the Valley, was a memorable one by reason of the victories at Opequon, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. In the latter battle occurred the famous incident of Sheridan's Ride from Winchester; and, in justice to the Sixth Corps, it should be noted in connection with that affair, that General Wright had already given Early a successful check, had made the dispositions for a counter advance, and was about to move forward when Sheridan resumed command.
General Russell was killed at the Opequon, and the gallant Bidwell at Cedar Creek. The casualties of the corps at the Opequon aggregated 211 killed, 1,442 wounded, and 46 missing; total, 1,699. At Cedar Creek, it lost 298 killed, 1,628 wounded, and 200 missing; total, 2,126. Its total loss in the Shenandoah campaign, Aug. 22d to Oct. 20th, was 4,899, out of 12,615 "present for duty," in August. General Wheaton succeeded to the command of the lamented Russell, while General Truman Seymour was assigned to the command of the Third Division, in place of General Ricketts, who was seriously wounded at Cedar Creek.
In December. 1864, the Sixth Corps returned to the Petersburg trenches, built their winter-quarters, and went into position near the Weldon Railroad. On the 2d of April, 1865, occurred the grand, final, and successful assault on the fortifications of Petersburg, in which the corps was assigned a prominent and important part. Then came the hot pursuit of Lee's retreating veterans, during which the corps fought at Sailor's Creek. This, the last battle of the Sixth Corps, was marked by the same features which had so largely characterized all its battles,--dash, hard fighting--some of it with the bayonet, victory, and large captures of men, flags, guns, and material.
The history of the Sixth Corps, more than any other, is replete with fascinating interest. Its record is invested with more of the romance and brilliancy of war. There was the successful assault of Marye's Heights; the brilliant dash into the rifle pits at Rappahannock Station; the deadly hand-to-hand fighting in the gloomy thickets of Spotsylvania; the breathless interest which attaches to their lone fight at Fort Stevens, where, under the eye of the President, they saved the National Capital from the hand of the invader; the victories in the Valley, with the dramatic incident at Cedar Creek; and the crowning success at the storming of Petersburg. Over all these scenes the Greek Cross waved proudly on the banners of the corps, while its veteran legions wrought deeds which linked that badge with an unfading glory and renown.
Source: "Regimental Losses in the American
Civil War (1861-1865)" - William F. Fox The Civil War Archive 1998-2000
