First Vermont Brigade

Organized in the summer of 1861 by Major General William F. Smith and commanded by Brigadier General W.T.H. Brooks and Brigadier General and Brevet Major General L.A. Grant, the First Vermont Brigade, composed of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Regiments in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Corps, fought in whole or part with the Army of the Potomac from First Bull Run to Appomattox. Including the Eleventh Regiment, which for a year was part of the brigade, it aggregated 11,137 officers and men and gave 2,439 lives to the Union cause: 1,128 killed and mortally wounded in action, 1,009 dead from disease and accident, and 302 dead in Confederate prisons; 2,265 were wounded not mortally, for a total of 4,704 casualties. Reaching this field by a forced march of thirty-two miles on the evening of July 2, the brigade took position on the left Union flank near this point in anticipation of an enemy attack and held the same on July 3 and 4. Its service included First Bull Run, Lee's Mill, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Crampton's Pass, Antietam, Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, Marye's Heights, Salem Heights, Weldon Railroad, Charlestown, Gettysburg, Funkstown, Rappahannock Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Petersburg on June 18, 1864, Ream's Station, Petersburg on March 29, 1865, Petersburg on April 2, 1865, and Sailor's Creek.

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