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Ninety-Seventh Pennsylvania Infantry.
Pennypacker's Brigade —
Ames's Division--Tenth 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 | | | | 16 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | | 15 | 15 | 217 |
| | B | | 8 | 8 | | 23 | 23 | 194 |
| | C | | 13 | 13 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 213 |
| | D | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 12 | 12 | 181 |
| | E | | 10 | 10 | | 27 | 27 | 221 |
| | F | | 25 | 25 | | 15 | 15 | 193 |
| | G | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 23 | 23 | 195 |
| | H | | 15 | 15 | | 16 | 16 | 216 |
| | I | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 163 |
| | K | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 12 | 12 | 195 |
| Totals | 6 | 130 | 136 | 2 | 184 | 186 | 2,004 |
Total of killed and wounded, 519; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 20.
Of the 1,039 originally enrolled, 104 were killed, and 117 died of disease.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| James's Island, S. C. | 4 | Petersburg, Va. | 5 |
| Morris Island, S. C. | 4 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 14 |
| Ware Bottom Church Va., May 18, 1864 | 14 | Petersburg Mine, Va. | 11 |
| Bermuda Hundred, Va., May 20, 1864 | 56 | Strawberry Plains, Va. | 10 |
| Bermuda Hundred, Va., August 25, 1864 | 2 | Chaffin's Farm, Va. | 2 |
| Picket, S. C., April, 1863 | 1 | Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 | 2 |
| Picket, Va., August 25, 1864 | 1 | Fort Fisher, N. C. | 9 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
John's Island, S. C.;
Fort Wagner, S. C.;
Swift Creek, Va.;
Drewry's Bluff, Va.;
Wilmington, N. C.
notes.--Eight companies were recruited in
Chester County, and the others in
Delaware.
It left the
State November, 1861, going to
Fort Monroe, and thence to
Port Royal, S. C. It remained in that Department sixteen months, during which it made several expeditions along the
Florida and Georgia coast, and was under fire in some minor engagements.
It took part in the operations about
Charleston Harbor, and in the grand assault on
Fort Wagner, in which affair it was in
Stevenson's Brigade of reserves.
In April, 1863, it left
Fernandina, Fla., and sailed for
Virginia, where it joined the Army of the James,--having been assigned to
White's (1st) Brigade,
Ames's (3d) Division, Tenth Corps.
In the fighting at
Green Plains, near
Bermuda Hundred, May 18th and 20th, it lost 29 killed, 186 wounded, and 22 captured or missing; total, 237; seven color bearers were shot, and
Colonel Pennypacker was wounded three times.
The regiment occupied an exposed position in the trenches before
Petersburg, and lost men almost daily during the siege,--in addition to those lost in the fighting at the
Mine Explosion.
It had in the meanwhile been transferred to the Second Division, in which it afterwards remained without further change.
Colonel Pennypacker commanded the brigade at Chaffin's Farm, where he was again wounded.
He led the brigade, also, in its victorious assault at
Fort Fisher, where he received another serious wound while planting the colors of the Ninty-seventh on the enemy's inner line of works.
