2nd_United_States_Sharpshooters

2nd United States Sharpshooters

2nd United States Sharpshooters

Union unit during the US Civil War consisting of marksmen.

The 2nd United States Sharpshooters was a sharpshooter regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. From 1861 to January 1863 they were members of the "First Iron Brigade" also known as the "Iron Brigade of the East".

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Service

The 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters was raised as follows:

The 2nd and the 1st United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment were consolidated on December 31, 1864, and the regiment was broken up on February 20, 1865, and the remaining companies distributed as follows:

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 117 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 123 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 250 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

  • Colonel Hiram Berdan in 1861
  • Colonel Henry A.V. Post from January 1, 1862, to November 16, 1862
  • Colonel Hiram Berdan from November 16, 1862, until 1864
  • Colonel Homer R. Stoughton Jan 19, 1864.

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Thomas Yoseloff (1959). "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion". The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. New York.

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