Trivia #4 Casualties (6/4/2014)

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The 15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry brought about 600 men to the Battle of Antietam, how many total casualties did this unit suffer?
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[ErnieMac]

330.

 

[chellers]

330 according to http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mnt-ma-15-inf.htm
300 according to http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms060.dot
324 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Regiment_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Infantry

Edit - Note to all players: as indicated in post # 2 of the Trivia Rules, Scores and Records Archive sticky thread - if you give multiple answers to a question that has asked for only one answer, you will not get credit for your response unless I can verify that every one of the answers you gave is supported by one source or another.

Thus, it is a good idea to give sources supporting every one of your answers, as chellers has done here, to make it easier for me to verify them all.

Hoosier

 

[Eagle eye]

From Antietam Stone Sentinels the 15th MVI Monument has the following inscription :

15th REG. MASS. VOLS.

Here, Sept. 17th, 1862, the Fifteenth Reg. Mass.
Volunteers, with the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters
attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by
Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade
Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps
met and engaged troops of the Brigades of
Semmes, Early and Barksdale.
Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed
and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds.

Added to the 330 casulities the 15th also had 24 MIA when Sedgwick's Division was ambushed in the West Woods. (From The Civil War in the East.com) bringimg the final total to 354 casulities.

 

[caller]

According to the 15 th's monument at Antietam, total casualties on that day was 330 men - 75 dead and 225 wounded in 20 minutes of fighting.

 

[Bob Owen]

324

 

[28thNewYork]

According to the text on the 15th Mass.VI monument at Antietam, of the 606 who went into battle, a total of 330 were casualties.

 

[DickWilliams]

330 casualties in 20 minutes

 

[Nathanb1]

104 killed or fatally wounded, 206 wounded, 14 captured (324 of 600 engaged)

 

[Dbersh]

324

 

[adisciu9]

324

 

[Littlestown]

330

15th REG. MASS. VOLS.
Here, September 17, 1862, the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, with the first company Andrew Sharpshooters attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade. Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps, met and engaged troops of the Brigades of Semmes, Early and Barksdale. Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds. http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mnt-ma-15-inf.htm

 

[C.S.M 1861]

"Here, Sept. 17th, 1862, the Fifteenth Reg. Mass.
Volunteers, with the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters
attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by
Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade
Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps
met and engaged troops of the Brigades of
Semmes, Early and Barksdale.
Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed
and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds."

http://www.antietam.stonesentinels.com/MA/MA15.php

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

Three hundred and thirty

 

[Michael Condon]

324 of 600

 

[godofredus]

From the regiment's monument at Antietam:



15th REG. MASS. VOLS.


Here, Sept. 17th, 1862, the Fifteenth Reg. Mass.
Volunteers, with the First Company Andrew Sharpshooters
attached, 606 men of all ranks, commanded by
Lieut. Col. John W. Kimball, Gorman's Brigade
Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps
met and engaged troops of the Brigades of
Semmes, Early and Barksdale.
Within twenty minutes 330 had fallen, 75 killed
and 255 wounded, 43 dying of wounds.

So short answer: 330 casualties....

 

[ole]

330

 

[101combatvet]

"They went into the battle with six hundred and six in the regiment and suffered a loss of three hundred and forty-four killed, wounded and missing."

 

[csb1971]

330 casualties. 75 killed, and 255 wounded.

 

[AUG]

70 enisted men were killed, 255 men wounded, 43 mortally, and 24 men missing.

Edit - The number dying of wounds is included in the number of wounded. In other words, if one soldier is wounded, he is only one casualty, whether he ultimately dies of the wound or not.

If you understood that a mortally wounded soldier should count as only one casualty, then your answer would be 349, which is acceptable. If you didn't understand it, then your answer would be 392, and that is outside the range of acceptable answers for this question.

Unfortunately, you did not give a total number of casualties. Therefore, I cannot tell whether you understood this point or not, and I cannot give credit for this answer.

Hoosier