Second Brigade (Cutler)

One of two brigades in Wadsworth’s Division of the First Corps.

Commander: Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler (February 16, 1807 – July 30, 1866). Businessman from Massachusetts. He was badly wounded by a shell at Globe Tavern during the Petersburg Campaign. He died about a year after the War from a stroke which was likely caused by his head wound.

Strength: 2,017

Losses: 1,002; 128 killed, 509 wounded, 365 missing.

Monuments and Memorials of Cutler’s Brigade