151st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, United States Civil War

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151st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Organized at Harrisburg October 18 to November 24, 1862. Moved to Washington, D. C., November 26. Attached to 3rd 151st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Service: Duty in the Defenses of Washington till February 1863. Moved to Belle Plains, Va., and joined 1st Army Corps. Duty there till April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations about Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2. Battle of Chancellorsville May 2-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. Mustered out July 27, 1863.

List of Casualties of the 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863:

Field and Staff: Lt. Col. George F. McFarland, WIA Adjutant Samuel T. Allen, WIA Sgt. Maj, Simon J. Arnold, WIA

COMPANY A: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded: Cpl. Thomas D. Allen Cpl. Hugh McCready Pvt. Henry W. Brown Pvt. Charles F. Fish Pvt. Nelson McMicken Pvt. Andrew Shoemaker Pvt. Seth Shove

Wounded In Action Cpt. George L. Stone Sgt. William Perrigo Sgt. Charles H. Stone Pvt. George Brotzman Pvt. Melville J. Buck Pvt. Wallace J. Foster Pvt. Ezra F. Kent Pvt. Franklin M. Kent Pvt. Isaac Melhuish Pvt. Orlando Parks Pvt. Benjamin Sherwood Pvt. Joel Sherwood Pvt. Silas Squires Pvt. Gardner Taylor Pvt. Daniel Tucker Pvt. William H. Ward

TOTAL: 7 KIA, 16 WIA, 8 Missing = 31 Casualties

COMPANY B: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Sgt. Thomas W. Beardsley Sgt. Henry Smith Pvt. Charles Blackmore Pvt. Solomon B. Brink Pvt. Samuel McCormick Pvt. James W. Morrison Pvt. Valentine Hipsman Pvt. George W. Parr Pvt. Nelson Reaser

Wounded In Action Cpl. Charles Bates Pvt. Peter Cron Pvt. Robert A. Kayser Pvt. Rush K. Kellam Pvt. Levi Losey Pvt. Charles McCarter Pvt. John L. Pearson

Total=9 KIA, 7 WIA, 10 Missing = 26 Casualties

COMPANY C: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Pvt. Henry Tupper

WIA Pvt. Franklin S. Barnes Pvt. Deidrich Dasenbuck Pvt. Theodore O. Gunn Pvt. John C. Lomis Pvt. William C. Trumball Pvt. Andrew O. Tyler Total= 1 KIA, 6 WIA, 2 Missing= 9 Casualties

Company D: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Sgt. James M. Dunn Sgt. Abe C. Freet Cpl. George H. McCahren Pvt. Benjamin Armstrong Pvt. Nathan H. Beisser Pvt. David Fry Pvt. Ephraim Guyer Pvt. John Haines Pvt. Davis H. Ingram Pvt. Samuel Nailor Pvt. John Wesley

Wounded In Action 2nd Lt. Benjamin F. Oliver Sgt. Michael Gable Cpl. Michael C, Bratton Cpl. Davis Meredith Pvt. John Amich Pvt. William Boyer Pvt. Malcolm Buchanan Pvt. Thomas B. Landis Pvt. William P. Noble Pvt. Henry S. Patterson Pvt. Isaac Smith

Total= 12 KIA, 11 WIA & 6 Missing = 29 Casualties

COMPANY E: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded 1st Lt. Aaron S. Seaman Cpl. Henry M. Miller Cpl. William F. Seaman Pvt. Reuben Beechert Pvt. William H. Butler Pvt. Lewis Gambler Pvt. Solomon Huy Pvt. Beneville Harner Pvt. William H. Kutz Pvt. Allen Miller Pvt. Aaron Sands

Wounded In Action 2nd. Lt. Thomas F. Moyer Sgt. Azariah P. Body Sgt. John R. Schwambach Cpl. James Dubson Cpl. Benjamin F. Egolf Cpl. William M. Heckman Cpl. Edmund Kauffman Musician Michael Link, shot in both eyes Pvt. Amasa G. Adams Pvt. Cornelius Beechert Pvt. Nelson P. Body Pvt. Jonathan Dreibelbis Pvt. Charles Eisenhower Pvt. Adam Grimes Pvt. Henry Y. Hottenstein Pvt. Ephraim Ney Pvt. Benjamin F. Pearson Pvt. John H. Phillips Pvt. Lenhard Ran Pvt. Lewis H. Rentschler Pvt. Samuel Schlear Pvt. Percival Snyder Pvt. Andrew B. Wagner Pvt. Isaac Weaver Pvt. John A. Wentzel

TOTAL= 11 KIA, 25 WIA, 6 Missing=42 Casualties

COMPANY F: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Pvt. James Cotton Pvt. James Green Pvt. Pardon Hazeltine Pvt. Marcus Jaquay Pvt. Wilbur Kimball Pvt. Frank Lyon Pvt. Robert Young

Wounded In Action 1st Lt. William O. Blodget Sgt. Anil D. Frank Sgt. James L. Lott Cpl. Raymond B. Jones Cpl. Samuel A. Tuttle Cpl. Sylvanus Walker Cpl. Leander W. Wilcox Pvt. John W. Allen Pvt. Jehiel Carr Pvt. William C. Carr Pvt. Perry F. Chandler Pvt. Andrew J. Gantz Pvt. William Gray Pvt. John Knupp Pvt. John Myers Pvt. Edwin Matteson Pvt. Frank McIntyre Pvt. James E. Norris Pvt. Pearson C. Phillips Pvt. Daniel Porter Pvt. George A. Schuyler Pvt. Hiram Sturdevant Pvt. Stephen Sweet Pvt. William Sweetland Pvt. Daniel West

TOTAL= 7 KIA, 26 WIA & 8 Missing= 41 Casualties

COMPANY G: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Pvt. Thomas B. Faber Pvt. Jacob Gehret Pvt. John E. Geiss Pvt. J. Himmelberger Pvt. A.L. Kleinginnea Pvt. William S. Stamm

Wounded In Action Sgt. John W. Yeager Cpl. Henry D. Bentz Cpl. Christian B. Koenig Pvt. Girard Berger Pvt. Jonathan Christ Pvt. Jared Dunkelberger Pvt. Erasmus H. Gruber Pvt. Jared Heck Pvt. Levi Heck Pvt. John D. Heffner Pvt. Frederick Holden Pvt. Isaac Kalbach Pvt. James H. Kaufman Pvt. Henry S. Kintzle Pvt. Levi Kline Pvt. Jonathan Kreitz Pvt. Daniel Livers Pvt. John Rentz Pvt. Willowby Shearer Pvt. Alfred D. Staudt Pvt. Adam G. Strause Pvt. William W. Strause Pvt. Joel S. Stump

Total: 6 KIA, 24 WIA & 10 Missing = 40

COMPANY H: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Cpl. John Schaffer Pvt. John Bender Pvt. George Livengood Pvt. Adam Siegfried Pvt. William T. Strause Pvt. Henry M. Weber Pvt. William J. Wentz

Wounded In Action 2nd Lt. Albert Yost Sgt. Franklin R. Boltz Sgt. George W. Heiig Sgt. William M. Miller Cpl. Jonathan G. Haag Cpl. Joseph Y. Moyer Pvt. John Fessler Pvt. Adam L. Gottshall Pvt. William Hollenbach Pvt. Jacob B. Klahr Pvt. David K. Knoll Pvt. John Lengel Pvt. Jacob Loeb Pvt. Andrew Miller Pvt. William H. Scheaffer Pvt. George Spangler Pvt. John T. Strause Pvt. Solomon Strause Pvt. William S. Strause Pvt. Jonathan S. Wenrich

Captured Captain William K. Boltz 1st Lt. James L. Reber Cpl. Isaac K. Derr Pvt. Ezra Stupp

Total: 7 KIA, 20 WIA, 4 Missing =31

COMPANY I: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded Cpl. Jacob Haertter Pvt. William Borrell Pvt. Patrick Brennan Pvt. William Delph Pvt. Henry Felton Pvt. William Manning Pvt. John McClure Pvt. Anson C. Miller Pvt. Jacob Zimmerman

Wounded In Action 1st Lt. Henry H. Merkle Sgt. Charles Bartolett Sgt. Joseph Kantner Sgt. J. Peter Koch Cpl. Elias Bartolett Cpl. Samuel B. Snell Pvt. Jonathan Auchenbach Pvt. Albert Bacon Pvt. Elias Delcamp Pvt. Daniel Fessler Pvt. Michael Fessler Pvt. Truman Halbert Pvt. William W. Jenks Pvt. Moses Keller Pvt. William Kendricks Pvt. William Moyer Pvt. Jeremiah Reed Pvt. Peter Schnerring Pvt. Jeremiah Starr Pvt. Daniel Yeik Pvt. George Zechman

Captured Capt. William L. Gray 2nd Lt. Charles P. Potts

Total: 9 KIA, 21 WIA, 17 Missing= 47

COMPANY K: Killed In Action or Mortally Wounded 2nd Lt. Charles Trexler Sgt. Alexander Seiders Cpl. Cyrus Lutz Pvt. Peter Drumheller Pvt. Jonathan Eagua Pvt. Franklin GEIGER * Pvt. Nicholas Guinther Pvt. Adam Keenor Pvt. David Scheimer Pvt. Charles Smeck Pvt. Franklin B. Weaber Pvt. Franklin P. Wendling

Wounded In Action Capt. James W. Weida Sgt. James B. Brown Sgt. Adam Heilman Cpl. Amos Fisher Cpl. Franklin Rowe Cpl. George Weidner Pvt. Ephraim Bingaman Pvt. Lewis B. Bluck Pvt. John Borrell Pvt. Marcus Fegley Pvt. John Gross Pvt. James B. Hayman Pvt. John H. Herb Pvt. Charles Humbert Pvt. James B. Kerchner Pvt. Henry Kline Pvt. Mahlon Lease Pvt. Lewis Mechley Pvt. Hillorous Roth Pvt. Aaron Smith Pvt. John Weyandt

Total: 12 KIA, 22 WIA and 4 Missing

Totals for Regiment = 81 KIA, 181 WIA, 75 Captured or Missing

Total Loss on July 1, 1863 = 337 men, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, to February, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1863. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ National Park Service Union Pennsylvania Volunteers

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