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One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Infantry.

Graham's Brigade — Birney's Division--Third Corps.

(1) Col. Amor A. Mcknight (Killed). (3) Col. Calvin A. Craig (Killed).
(2) Col. William W. Corbett. (4) Col. James Miller.

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       18
Company A 1 23 24   17 17 203
  B 1 30 31   15 15 204
  C 2 19 21   12 12 214
  D 2 21 23   8 8 193
  E   20 20   11 11 192
  F 1 27 28   12 12 184
  G   21 21   13 13 187
  H 1 21 22   17 17 208
  I 2 28 30   22 22 198
  K   21 21   12 12 191
Totals 14 231 245   139 139 1,992

245 killed == 12.2 per cent.

Total of killed and wounded 783; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 3.

battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W.
Fair Oaks, Va. 53 Spotsylvania, Va. 8
Oak Grove, Va. 3 North Anna, Va. 2
Chickahominy, Va. 1 Totopotomy, Va. 4
Glendale, Va. 22 Petersburg, Va. (assault, 1864) 10
Malvern Hill, Va. 1 Jerusalem Road, Va. 2
Warrenton Junction, Va. 3 Siege of Petersburg, Va. 5
Manassas, Va. 10 Deep Bottom, Va. 8
Fredericksburg, Va. 3 Weldon Railroad, Va., Oct. 2, 1864 1
Chancellorsville, Va. 14 Boydton Road, Va. 11
Gettysburg, Pa. 22 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 2
Auburn, Va. 1 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 30, 1865 1
Wilderness, Va. 56 Sailor's Creek, Va. 2

Present, also, at Yorktown; Williamsburg; Chantilly; Kelly's Ford; Mine Run; Po River; Cold Harbor; Strawberry Plains; Poplar Spring Church; Farmville; Appomattox.

notes.--Recruited from the counties of Jefferson, Clarion, and Clearfield. The men were mostly from the forest regions, possessing the hardy characteristics and manly traits incidental to mountaineers and lumbermen. The regiment left its barracks in Pittsburg in November, 1861. After some hard service in the trenches before Yorktown, and some skirmishing at Williamsburg — then in Kearny's Division,--it faced the enemy at Fair Oaks, in one of the deadliest struggles of the war, winning praise from generals and historians alike. Its losses at Fair Oaks were large--41 killed, 112 wounded, and 8 missing; total, 161. At Gettysburg, the regiment took 247 men into action, and lost 8 killed, 115 wounded, and 9 missing; total, 132, or more than half. In April, 1864, the division was transferred to the Second Corps, the One Hundred and Fifth being assigned to General Alex. Hays's Brigade. In the first battle of the ensuing campaign — the Wilderness — it lost 38 killed, 116 wounded, and 6 missing. Lieutenant-Colonel Greenwalt was killed at the Wilderness, Colonel McKnight at Chancellorsville, Colonel Craig at Deep Bottom, and Major John C. Conser at the Boydton Road.


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