Units and Casualties
Numbers engaged and casualties are difficult to accurately establish. Fortunately, for the Federals, an official report of casualties for each Unit engaged was made out on May 22, 1864, but somehow it never found its way into the Official Records, nor is it to be found in the National Archives. However, the New York Tribune published it in full on May 27, 1864, and this is the source of most of the Federal figures below.
Confederate losses are more difficult to come by, though a few scattered reports exist, For the purposes of this list, only casualties of those units engaged in the main battle are listed; losses suffered before or after that are not included. Information adopted from The Battle of New Market by William C. Davis
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Federal Army - Major General Franz Sigel
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss | |
First Brigade-Moor | |||||
18th Connecticut | |||||
-Peale | 1 | 31 | 24 | 56 | 16% |
28th Ohio | |||||
-Becker | not engaged | ||||
116th Ohio | |||||
-Washburn | not engaged | ||||
123d Ohio | |||||
-Kellogg | 5 | 33 | 37 | 75 | 10.7% |
First Brigade total | 6 | 64 | 61 | 131 | 3.2.5% |
Second Brigade-Thoburn | |||||
1st West Virginia | |||||
-Weddle | 4 | 54 | 18 | 76 | 10.9% |
34th Massachusetts | |||||
-Wells | 30 | 131 | 54 | 215 | 43% |
54th Pennsylvania | |||||
-Campbell | 32 | 180 | 42 | 254 | 44.9% |
54th Pennsylvania | |||||
Second Brigade total | 67 | 392 | 126 | 585 | 21.7% |
First Division total | 73 | 456 | 187 | 716 | 19.1% |
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss | |
First Brigade-Tibbitts | |||||
1st New York (Veteran) | |||||
-Taylor | 12 | 26 | 9 | 47 | not known |
1st New York (Lincoln) | |||||
-Adams | not engaged | ||||
1st Md. Potomac Home | |||||
-Daniel | 1 | 1 | - | - | not known |
21st New York | |||||
-Otis | 2 | 12 | - | 14 | not known |
14th Pennsylvania | |||||
-Duncan | - | 6 | 2 | 8 | not known |
First Brigade total | 14 | 44 | 12 | 70 | not known |
Second Brigade-Wynkoop | |||||
15th New York | |||||
-Roessler | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 13.3% |
20th Pennsylvania | |||||
-Douglas | 1 | 5 | 15 | 21 | no figures |
22d Pennsylvania | |||||
-McNulty | - | - | - | - | - |
Second Brigade total | 3 | 8 | 26 | 37 | |
First Cavalry Division total | 17 | 52 | 38 | 107 | approx. 5% |
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss |
96 | 520 | 225 | 841 | 13.4% 5 guns |
Confederate Army - Major General John C. Breckinridge
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss | |
First Brigade -Echols | |||||
22d Virginia | |||||
-Patton | 4 | 29 | - | 33 | 5.7% |
23d Virginia Battalion | |||||
-Derrick | 2 | 75 | 79 | 3 | 3.6% |
26th Virginia Battalion | |||||
-Edgar | 3 | 21 | - | 24 | 5.6% |
First Brigade total | 9 | 125 | 2 | 136 | 8.6%2 |
Second Brigade-Wharton | |||||
30th Virginia Battalion | |||||
-Clark | 1 | 45 | - | 46 | 13.3% |
51st Virginia | |||||
-Wolfe | 2+ | 90+ | - | 103 | 14.7% |
62d Virginia Mounted | |||||
-Smith | 11 | 81 | - | 92 | 20.5% |
Co. A, 1st Missouri Cavalry | |||||
Woodson | 5 | 35 | - | 40 | 64.5% |
Second Brigade total | 19+ | 251+ | - | 281 | 18%3 |
Attached commands | Hart's engineer company | ||||
-Hart | - | 10 | - | 10 | 27% |
Augusta-Rockingham Reserves | |||||
-Harman | not engaged | ||||
Davis' Co. Md. Cavalry | |||||
-Davis | - | - | - | - | not known |
23d Virginia Cavalry | |||||
-White | 4+ | 36+ | 41+ | 13%+ | |
V.M.I. Cadets | |||||
-Shipp | 10 | 45 | - | 55 | 24.3% |
Attached commands total | 14+ | 91+ | 1+ | 41+ | 17.5%4 |
Infantry Division total | 42+ | 467+ | 3+ | 523+ | 14% |
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss | |
18th Virginia | |||||
-Imboden | not engaged | ||||
2d Maryland Battalion | |||||
-Gilmor | not engaged | ||||
McNeill's Company, Partisans | |||||
-McNeill | not engaged | ||||
43d Battalion | |||||
-Mosby | not engaged | ||||
Cavalry total | not engaged |
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss | |
Chapman's battery | |||||
-Chapman | 1 | 4 | - | 5 | 4% |
Jackson's battery | |||||
-Blain | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1% |
McClanahan's battery | |||||
-McClanahan | - | - | - | - | - |
V.M.I. section | |||||
-Minge | - | 2 | - | 2 | 6.1% |
Artillery total | 1 | 7 | - | 8 | 2.3% |
Killed | Wounded | Missing | Total | Percentage loss |
43+ | 474+ | 3+ | 531+ | 13% |