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KEGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

ELEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. PAUL'S BRIGADE — ROBINSON'S DIVISION — FIRST CORPS.

COL. RICHARD COULTER; BVT. MAJOR-GEN.

236 killed = 11.5 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 869 ; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 44.

BATTLES. K. & M.W.

j Thoroughfare Gap, Va 22

( Manassas, Va 50

Rappahannock, Va i

Antietam, Md 29

Fredericksburg, Va 17

Gettysburg, Pa 13

Wilderness, Va 30

North Anna, Va 2

BATTLES. K. &M.W.

( Spotsylvania, Va.,May 8th 8

•< Spotsylvania, Va., May loth 13

( Spotsylvania, Va., May 12th 2

Siege of Petersburg, Va 6

Weldon Railroad, Va 5

Hatcher's Run, Va 12

Gravelly Run, Va 10

Five Forks, Va 7

Cold Harbor, Va 9

Present, also, at Cedar Mountain; Chantilly; South Mountain ; Chancellorsville ; Mine Run; Totopoto-moy; Appomattox.

NOTES. —Originally a three months regiment which was organized in April, 1861, and was under fire July 2, 1861, at Falling Waters, Md. Reentering the service for three years, it was again mustered in at Harrisburg, Pa. It left there November 27, 1861, and proceeded to Annapolis with nine companies, numbering 813 officers and men ; the tenth company joined the command nine months later, on the eve of its first battle — at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. In May, 1862, it joined McDowell's Corps, having been assigned to Hartsuffs (3d) Brigade, Rickett's (2d) Division, in which command it fought at Manassas ; it lost there 44 killed, 114 wounded, and 88 missing ; a total of 246, including the losses at Thoroughfare Gap and Rappahannock; Lieutenant-Colonel Martin was among the killed. The whole brunt of the fight at Thoroughfare Gap fell on the Eleventh: Three weeks later the men were again hotly engaged at Antietam, where 124 more fell under the enemy's fire. The reenlisted men received their furlough in February, 1864, and went home, 276 in number, returning the next month with 314 additional recruits. The regiment entered Grant': campaign as a part of Baxter's Brigade, Robinson's Division, Fifth Corps, in which command it was engaged at the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania, Major Keenan losing his life in the latter battle. While carrying the State flag of the Eleventh, three color bearers were killed, and eleven wounded. The service of this regiment was a long and active one, and its loss in battle was exceptionally large.

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