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One Hundredth Pennsylvania Infantry--“Roundheads.”
Leasure's Brigade —
Stevenson'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 | 4 | | 4 | | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| Company | A | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 22 | 22 | 184 |
| | B | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 17 | 17 | 184 |
| | C | 1 | 27 | 28 | | 20 | 20 | 198 |
| | D | | 21 | 21 | | 15 | 15 | 192 |
| | E | | 30 | 30 | | 21 | 21 | 191 |
| | F | 1 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 23 | 201 |
| | G | 2 | 20 | 22 | | 16 | 16 | 202 |
| | H | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 12 | 12 | 181 |
| | I | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 8 | 8 | 82 |
| | K | 3 | 19 | 22 | | 17 | 17 | 186 |
| | M | | 20 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 195 |
| Totals | 16 | 208 | 224 | 2 | 183 | 185 | 2,014 |
224 killed == 11.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 887; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 29.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Legare's Point, S. C. | 3 | North Anna, Va. | 2 |
| James Island, S. C. | 13 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 2 |
| Manassas, Va. | 27 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 18 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 7 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 21 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 12 | Petersburg Mine, Va. | 23 |
| Antietam, Md. | 2 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 7 |
| Jackson, Miss. | 1 | Poplar Spring Church, Va. | 5 |
| Blue Springs, Tenn. | 1 | Boydton Road, Va. | 1 |
| Campbell's Station, Tenn. | 1 | Picket, Va., Dec. 13, 1864 | 1 |
| Siege of Knoxville, Tenn. | 5 | Fort Stedman, Va. | 22 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 4 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 2 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 44 | | |
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
nom 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 was no stancher stuff in
Cromwell's regiments than in the blue-coated line that dressed on 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.
Lieut.-Col. Dawson fell, mortally wounded, in the assault on
Petersburg;
Lieut.-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
Spotsylvania 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 its battles in many and widely separated States.
