Quite a variation there in the casualty stats from Fram and those in the table above. It would appear that Fram's casualty numbers are for the whole regiment, and not very accurate at that level either.
Thanks to
@lelliott19 for finding that list and compiling the numbers.
Newspaper reports aren't perfect , obviously, but they are gold for people like me looking to tie names to the event - names that may not be flagged otherwise in rosters, official reports.
I haven't scrubbed through the 50th Georgia as carefully as I have for some other units in Maryland, but I did a basic pass through Henderson's
Roster and some cemetery records a few years back. Here's what I have so far:
Quite a few more than the newspaper report and similar to Tim Ware's numbers for South Mountain (51 kia, 116 wia, 36 pow/mia - 203 total) from
Mountain Aflame.
Original losses I had for the 50th in Maryland from "Surgeons' reports" in the
ORs were 27 killed and 97 wounded. Similar to the newspaper lists, but obviously not correct. I wonder if this was part of a conscious public downplaying of casualties under General Lee?
26 of 225 of my total were in Company E, by the way - Sgt Fahm's numbers are high, I suspect he was speaking of that Company's total war experience or some longer period than just the Maryland Campaign.
The regiment's size on entering Maryland was not recorded, but they were down to about 100 men at Sharpsburg on the 17th. Given South Mountain casualties of about 200, and assuming none of those were still present at Sharpsburg, then their initial strength was about 300. Another unit with a very high casualty rate (~75%) in Maryland in 1862.
I have more research to do and will undoubtably discover errors and omissions in my data. It never ends