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Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Philadelphia Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second 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 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 17 | 17 | 211 |
| | B | | 17 | 17 | | 13 | 13 | 204 |
| | C | | 19 | 19 | | 9 | 9 | 165 |
| | D | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 11 | 11 | 176 |
| | E | | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 149 |
| | F | 1 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 170 |
| | G | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 10 | 10 | 156 |
| | H | 2 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 154 |
| | I | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 7 | 7 | 172 |
| | K | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 11 | 11 | 141 |
| Totals | 12 | 166 | 178 | 3 | 107 | 110 | 1,715 |
178 killed == 10.3 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 638, died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 29.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Munson's Hill, Va. | 1 | Mine Run, Va. | 1 |
| Yorktown, Va. | 2 | Wilderness, Va. | 5 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 2 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 10 |
| Skirmish, Va., June 18, 1862 | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 10 |
| Picket, Va., June 19, 1862 | 2 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 13 |
| Savage Station, Va. | 4 | Weldon Railroad, Va., June 22, 1864 | 8 |
| Glendale, Va. | 8 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 1 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 1 | Ream's Station, Va. | 1 |
| Antietam, Md. | 26 | Boydton Road, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 18 | Dabney's Mills, Va. | 3 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 56 | Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 | 4 |
Present, also, at
Peach Orchard;
Malvern Hill;
Chancellorsville; Bristoe Station;
North Anna;
Totopotomoy; Strawberry Plains;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--The Philadelphia Brigade occupies a prominent place in the history of the
battle of Gettysburg.
Under command of
General Alex. S. Webb, it held that particular point on the line which is familiar to the battle-field tourists as “the high-water mark of the
Rebellion.”
This position was the focus of a concentrated fire during the unprecedented artillery combat of the third day; and when that storm of missiles was followed by the grand assault known as
Pickett's charge, the enemy's column made its most daring and desperate thrust against that point of the line which was held by
Webb and his men. It was here that
Cushing's Battery made its gallant fight, and here that
General Armistead, the leader of the
Confederate assault, fell dead at the muzzle of one of
Cushing's guns.
The Sixty-ninth entered that fight with 258 officers and men, and held the stone wall in front of the brigade; it lost there 40 killed, 80 wounded and 9 missing,
Colonel O'Kane and
Lieutenant-Colonel Tschudy being among the killed.
At
Antietam, it was in
Sedgwick's Division, and fought at the Dunker Church; its loss in that battle was 19 killed, 58 wounded, and 15 missing. This regiment, like the New York Sixty-ninth, was composed mostly of Irish blood, and fully sustained the reputation of the Irish soldier for gallantry in battle.
It was recruited in
Philadelphia, and served continuously in the Second Division of the corps.
General Owen commanded the brigade in the campaigns of 1864.
