Bravely leading the attack, the 28th Massachusetts lost 158 (38 percent) of the 416 men it sent up the bloody slope; the highest number of casualties it would suffer in a single engagement during the entire war. Among those who lost their lives were Lts. Edwin Weller, William Holland and John Sullivan. The toll was heavy among all five regiments of the Irish Brigade, which suffered 535 total casualties, two-thirds of its strength, in the doomed assault.
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