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"The 100th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment, "A Fighting Regiment" (extract from William F. Fox's "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War", 1889) (Listed as Appendix C, Infantryman Pettit - The Civil War Letters of Corporal Frederick Pettit Edited by William Gilfillan Gavin 1990, White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. ONE HUNDREDTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY - "ROUNDHEADS." Leasure's Brigade - Stevenson's Division - Ninth Corps. (1) Col. DANIEL LEASURE; BVT. BRIG. GEN. (2) Col. NORMAN J. MAXWELL; BVT. BRIG. GEN. |
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KILLED AND DIED OF WOUNDS |
DIED OF DISEASE, ACCIDENTS, IN PRISON, ETC. |
TOTAL ENROLLMENT |
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Men |
Total |
Officers |
Men |
Total |
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| Field and Staff
Company A......... Company B......... Company C.......... Company D......... Company E......... Company F.......... Company G........ Company H......... Company I.......... Company K......... Company M......... |
4 1 2 1 .. .. 1 2 1 1 3 .. |
.. 18 13 27 21 30 22 20 12 6 19 20 |
4 19 15 28 21 30 23 22 13 7 22 20 |
.. .. .. .. .. .. 2 .. .. .. .. .. |
1 22 17 20 15 21 21 16 12 8 17 13 |
1 22 17 20 15 21 23 16 12 8 17 13 |
18 184 184 198 192 191 201 202 181 82 186 195 |
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Totals |
16 |
208 |
224 |
2 |
183 |
185 |
2,014 |
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224 Killed - 11.1 per cent. Total of Killed and Wounded, 887; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 29. |
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BATTLES/K & MW |
BATTLES/K & MW |
| Legare's Point,
SC.........................................................3 James Island, SC.........................................................13 Manassas, Va...............................................................27 Chantilly, Va.................................................................7 South Mountain Md....................................................12 Antietam, Md................................................................2 Jackson, Miss................................................................1 Blue Springs, Tn...........................................................1 Campbell's Station, Tenn ............................................1 Siege of Knoxville, Tenn ..............................................5 Wilderness, Va............................................................. 4 Spotsylvania, Va........................................................ 44 |
North Anna, Va..........................................................................2 Bethesda Church, Va.................................................................2 Cold Harbor, Va...................................................................... 18 Siege of Petersburg, Va........................................................... 21 Petersburg, Mine Va............................................................... 23 Weldon Railroad, Va............................................................... 7 Poplar Spring Church, Va....................................................... 5 Boydton Road, Va.................................................................... 1 Picket, Va., Dec. 13, 1864......................................................... 1 Fort Stedman, Va...................................................................22 Fall of Petersburg, Va.............................................................. 2
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Present, also, at Port Royal, S.C.; Coosaw River, S.C.; Fredericksburg, Va.; Vicksburg, Miss. Notes. -- The Pennsylvania Roundheads proved on many a hard fought field that they were worthy of their nome de guerre, and their ancestral namesakes. Bates, the historian, says that they were recruited in a part of the State which was settled by English Roundheads and Scotch-Irish Covenanters. Be that as it may, there may be no stancher stuff than Cromwell's regiments than in the blue-coated line that dressed the colors of the Hundredth Pennsylvania. They were well officered, Colonel Leasure being a man of remarkable soldierly ability, and although in command of the brigade most of the time, the regiment was always ably handled. Lieutenant.-Col. Dawson fell, mortally wounded in the assault on Petersburg; Lieuten.-Col. Pentecost was killed at Fort Stedman; Major Hamilton and Adjutant Leasure fell in the fighting at the Petersburg Mine. Five line-officers fell at Manassas, the casualties in that battle amounting to 15 killed, 117 wounded, and 8 missing. At Spottsylvania it sustained a loss of 23 killed, 110 wounded and 2 missing; total, 135. Like all the Ninth Corps regiments its service was a varied one; it made long journeys by sea and land, and fought it's battles in many and widely separated States. |
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