Casualties in the Forty-Eighth Regiment  N. Y. S. Volunteers


 
Morris Island
July 10, 1863
Fort Wagner
July 18, 1863
Olustee
Feb 20, 1864
Chester Heights
May 7, 1864
Drewery's Bluff
May 16, 1864
Cold Harbor
June 1-6, 1864
Deep Bottom
July 27, 
Aug 10
Aug 14, 1864
Strawberry Plains
Aug 16, 1864
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
 K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
Field & Staff
0      0      0
1     2     0
0     1     1
0      0      0
0      0      0
0     1     0
0      0      0
0      0      0
Non-Com Staff
0      0      0
1     0     0
0      0      0
0      0      0
0      0      0
1     0     0
0      0      0
0      0      0
Company A
4       8     0
11    18     4
6     7     9
0     1     0
2     8     0
1     4     0
0     3     0
0     1     0
Company B
0      0      0
10     16     7
4     19     3
1     1     0
2     1     0
1     4     1
0     9     2
1     1     0
Company C
1      7      0
11    32     2
5     93     5
1     2     0
2     5     0
5     4     0
0     4     1
4     0     0
Company D
1      4      0
10    14    4
2    22     9
2     5     0
0     1     0
6     0     0
0     2     0
2     9      2
Company E
0      0      0
7     28     3
1     16     5
1     2     0
6     13     0
1     6     0
0     9     1
0     1     0
Company F
0      0      0
6     17     2
8     19      0
0     3     0
0      0      0
0      0      0
2     4     0
0     1     0
Company G
0      0      0
0      0      0
4     10     0
0     4     0
9     9     1
1     6     0
0     4     3
3     2     0
Company H
0      0      0
14     23     3
3     6     0
1     3     0
0     5     0
1     5     0
1     2     1
0      0      0
Company  I
0      0      0
0      0      0
5     22     2
0     7     0
1     5     0
2     8     1
1     4     0
0      0      0
Company K
0      0      0
12     23     3
9     18     0
1     7     0
0     1     0
3     7     0
2     5     0
0     1     1
Total
6     19    0
83    173    28
47    163    34
7     35     0
22     48     1
17     49     2
6     48     8
10     16     3

K= Killed
W= Wounded
P= Prisoner
 
 
 
Hatcher's Run
Aug 25, 1864
Seige of Petersburg
June 30-July 30, 1864
Fort Fisher
Jan 15, 1865
Wilmington
Feb 21, 1865
Sundry 
Dates
Total in 
Action
Died of 
Disease*
Total Casualties
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
K...W...P
E*....H*
Field & Staff
0      0      0
1     0     0
0     2     0
0     1     0
0      0      0
2     7     1
0     1
11
Non-Com Staff
0      0      0
0     0      0
0      0      0
0      0      0
0      0      0
2     0     0
0     0
2
Company A
0      1      1
0     4     0
0     1     0
0      0      0
2     1     0
26    57    14
4     8
109
Company B
0      0      0
0     1     0
0      0      0
0      0      0
1     3     2
20    55    15
6     6
102
Company C
0      0      0
0     1     1
0      0      0
1     1     0
2     0     1
32    79    10
4     8
133
Company D
1     0     0
4     1     0
0     1     0
0     2     0
2     3     2
25    68    17
8     8
126
Company E
0      0      0
2     1     0
1     2     0
0     1     0
0     2     0
19    81     9
9     5
123
Company F
0      0      0
2     1     1
0      0      0
2     1     0
0     3     0
20    49     3
3     9
84
Company G
0      0      0
0     3     2
0      0      0
0     1     0
0     2     1
17    41     7
2     12
79
Company H
0      0      0
2     5     1
1     1      0
0     3     0
0     2     0
23    55     5
3     12
98
Company I
0      3      0
2     6     0
0     3      0
0      0      0
1     3     0
19    61     3
1      9
86
Company K
1     0      0
6     2     0
1     4      0
1     0     0
2     2     0
38    70     4
0     8
120
Total
2     4     1
19   25    5
3     14     0
4    10     0
10    21    6
136   623   88
40    86
1073
* E=In the Hands of the Enemy
* H=Hospital

48th New York State Volunteers in the Civil War

General Statistics

Number of enlistments in 1861, 167;  1862, 190;  1863, 220;  1864, 224;  1865, 581;  year unknown, 9.

Whole number of enlistments, 2191.  Of this number about 300 were transferred from the N. Y. Independent Battalion and 117th N.Y. Vols.

The casualties in engagements with the enemy were 947, or 43 per cent.  Deducting the recruits of 1865, none of whom were in more than one action (Wilmington), and with only three wounded, the loss is increased to nearly one half, and without the 1865 recruits, two thirds.

236 were killed or died of wounds received in action.
623 were wounded, and 88 were taken prisoners.
87 died of disease, and 40 at Andersonville, Richmond, and other Confederate prisons.
17 commissioned officers were killed or died of wounds, and 28 were wounded.
58 enlisted men became commissioned officers in the regiment, and 17 in other commands.
331 re-enlisted and became "Veterans;" of whom 186 were mustered-out Sept. 1, 1865.

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Source:  Forty-Eighth Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols.