142nd Pennsylvania Infantry - Casualties

Casualties

  • Total enrollment: 935
  • Killed and died of wounds: 7 officers and 133 enlisted men
  • Wounded: 21 officers and 409 enlisted men
  • Died of disease, etc.: 81 enlisted men
  • Captured and missing: 2 officers and 156 enlisted men
  • Total loss: 809.

The casualty information presented above is as inscribed on the back of the 142nd's monument on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Military Park in Adams County, Pennsylvania. According to Fox's Regimental Losses, the 142nd PVI suffered the ninth highest percentage of combat fatalities in the entire Union army.

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