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| Commanding Officers: Col. Francis C. Barlow LCol. Nelson A. Miles | Statistics for Maryland Campaign Initial Strength: 105 Killed in Action (KIA): 6 Wounded (WIA): 34 Missing in Action (MIA): 1 Losses, % of Initial Strength: 39% Arms: Enfield Rifle Maps Showing this Unit: Detail Map #7: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road Detail Map #8b: Sykes' Regulars Near Sharpsburg Battlefield Tablets for this Unit: Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM Tablet #34: Richardson's Division, Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 8 PM to 17 Sep, 7 AM Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM Tablet #45: Caldwell's Brigade, Richardson's Division - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM Tablet #116, cont: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM Tablet #44: Richardson's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 2 PM This Regiment's Chain of Command: Army - Army of the Potomac Corps - Second (II) Army Corps Division - 1st Division, II Corps Brigade - 1st Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Antietam Campaign: In Maryland "the little Sixty-first regiment was commanded by Colonel Barlow and Lieut. Col. Miles. For field purposes the regiment was divided into three companies. First, the company commanded by Capt. Angell and Lieut. Keech, in which was my Company C. (Capt. Broady was at this time away on sick leave). Second company was commanded by Capt. Walter H. Maze and the third by Capt. Geo. D. H. Watts. There were about 35 men to the company. In other words, there were but one hundred and five muskets for all of these officers to direct."1 At Antietam, the 61st was combined or consolidated with the 64th NY Infantry, both Regiments under the command of Col Barlow, they fought in the Sunken Road and on Piper's Farm in the midday phase of the battle on September 17th.
* If there's a symbol in the Details column ... Click on their last name to see more Notes1 Fuller, Charles Augustus, Personal Recollections of the War of 1861... in the Sixty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, Sherburne (NY): News Job Printing House, 1906, pg. 54 [AotW citation 7680] « Search for Another Unit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||