Comments concerning the names of engagements. Sometimes battles are recorded differently by Northern and Southern records. In some cases a large battle may have a more specific location identified.

Here are some examples: Stone’s River is also known as Murfreesboro, Elkhorn is Pea Ridge, Antietam is Sharpsburg.

The highest casualty rates , their unit and the battle are listed below.

1st Texas = 82% at Antietam
21st Georgia = 77% at First Manassas
26th North Carolina = 72% at Gettysburg
6th Mississippi = 71% at Shiloh
8th Tennessee = 68% at Stone’s River
10th Tennessee = 68% at Chickamauga

The highest casualty rates, their unit and the battle are listed below:

1st Minnesota = 82% at Gettysburg
141st Penn = 76% at Gettysburg
101st New York = 74% at First Manassas
25th Mass = 70% at Cold Harbor
36th Wisconsin = 69% at Bethesda Church
20th Mass = 68% at Fredricksburg
8th Vermont = 68% at Cedar Creek
81st Penn = 67% at Fredricksburg
12th Massachusetts = 67% at Antietam
1st Maine H.A. = 67% at Petersburg
9th Louisiana Colored = 64% at Milliken’s Bend
5th New Hamp. = 64% at Fredricksburg

Other interesting facts that I noticed were as follows:

Gakusha Pennypacker was the youngest Union General who was 20 years and 11 months when he received a brevet commission. He was also listed as the youngest full Colonel in the Union army.

BG Stahel who won the ‘Congressional Medal of Honor’ had also won the Hungarian ‘Cross of Bravery’ during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.

BG Charles R Lowell had 12 horses killed during battles.

At least seven Generals enlisted in the Union army as privates and later attained the rank of General. The ones that I noted were C.C. Andrews, F.C. Barlow, D.D. Bidwell, Selden Conner, John G. Mitchell, John M. Oliver and William Wells.

The average age of the 132 Major Generals was 39 and the average age of the 450 Brigadier Generals was 37.

Foreign born Generals were in the Union army with sources varying on facts. Several Generals had been officers during the 1848 Liberal Revolutions and on the losing side and had to flee to the United States. Some Generals that I noted were Turchin = Russia, Asboth = Hungary, Stohlband = Sewden, Weber = Baden, Steinwehr = Brunswick, Schoepf = Poland, Owen = Wales, Klapa = Hungary, Schurz = Prussia, Osterhaus = Prussia, Count Cesnola = Italy. Schimmelfennig = Prussian Lithuania, Willich = Prussia, Stahel = Hungary, and Meager = Ireland.

Union generals were identified only by place of birth. Not ‘State’ of Commission.

Alabama = 4
Connecticut= 23
Delaware = 5
Florida = 3
Georgia = 2
Illinois =9
Indiana = 21
Kentucky = 41
Louisiana = 1
Maine = 31
Maryland/D.C. = 20
Massachusetts= 45
Michigan = 4
Missouri= 3
New Hampshire= 13
New Jersey= 11
New York= 113
North Carolina= 3
Ohio= 64
Pennsylvania=64
Rhode Island = 6
South Carolina = 1
Tennessee = 6
Vermont = 24
Virginia = 18
Wisconsin = 1

Foreign Born = 45


Canada = 4
France = 3
Prussia/German = 12 Great Britain = 5
Ireland = 12
Poland = 2 Spain = 2
One each for Switzerland, Russia, Sweden
Other = 2?