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Forty-Fifth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Bliss's Brigade —
Potter's Division--Ninth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | 19 |
| Company | A | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 21 | 21 | 197 |
| | B | | 19 | 19 | | 22 | 22 | 205 |
| | C | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 25 | 25 | 195 |
| | D | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 24 | 24 | 183 |
| | E | 1 | 33 | 34 | | 25 | 25 | 188 |
| | F | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 27 | 27 | 216 |
| | G | | 19 | 19 | | 25 | 25 | 185 |
| | H | 1 | 29 | 30 | | 30 | 30 | 199 |
| | I | 3 | 18 | 21 | | 23 | 23 | 186 |
| | K | 1 | 27 | 28 | | 30 | 30 | 187 |
| Totals | 13 | 214 | 227 | | 252 | 252 | 1,960 |
227 killed == 11.5 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 873; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 98.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Otter Island, S. C. | 4 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| James Island, S. C. | 1 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 1 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 43 | Cold Harbor, Va. (assault) | 41 |
| Antietam, Md. | 6 | Cold Harbor, Va. (trenches) | 4 |
| Jackson, Miss. | 4 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 20 |
| Blue Springs, Tenn. | 4 | Picket, Petersburg, July, 1864 | 5 |
| Campbell's Station, Tenn. | 2 | Picket, Cold Harbor, June, 1864 | 1 |
| Knoxville, Tenn. | 1 | Mine Explosion, Va. | 14 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 34 | Peeble's Farm, Va. | 17 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 13 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 11 |
Present, also, at
Fredericksburg;
Vicksburg, Miss.;
Ny River, Va.: Weldon Railroad;
Hatcher's Run.
notes.--Organized at Camp Curtin,
Harrisburg, Pa., on October 21, 1861, the men having been enlisted mostly in
Tioga,
Centre, and
Lancaster Counties.
It embarked at
Baltimore, November 19th, for
Fort Monroe, and after remaining there a month re-embarked for
Hilton Head, S. C. It returned to
Virginia in August, 1862, having been assigned to
Willcox's (1st) Division, Ninth Corps;
Colonel Welsh was placed in command of the brigade.
At
South Mountain the Forty-fifth drove the
Confederates from a strong position, but their gallantry cost them a loss of 27 killed and 107 wounded. In the spring of 1863, the Ninth Corps was transferred to the Western Army; it subsequently took part in the operations about
Vicksburg, and then in the fighting with
Longstreet's Corps at the Siege of
Knoxville, Tenn. In January, 1864, 426 of the men reenlisted for the war, thus ensuring a continuance of the regimental organization.
The Ninth Corps having returned to
Virginia in 1864, the regiment participated in
Grant's campaigns and was hotly engaged at the
Wilderness, where it lost 17 killed, 119 wounded, and 7 missing; and at Cold Harbor, where 181, or over half the regiment were killed or wounded,
Major Kelsey being among the killed.
The Forty-fifth took part in all the hard fighting at
Petersburg,
Colonel Curtin falling severely wounded in the assault of June 18.
In the fighting at the crater of the exploded Mine.
it captured the flag of the Sixth Virginia.
The regiment was mustered out July 17, 1865.
