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One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Wheaton's Brigade —
Getty's Division--Sixth Corps.
Colonel Frederick H. Collier;
Bvt. Brig. Gen.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | | 2 | 2 | | 2 | 16 |
| Company | A | 2 | 23 | 25 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 130 |
| | B | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 18 | 18 | 126 |
| | C | | 14 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 116 |
| | D | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 7 | 7 | 97 |
| | E | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 3 | 3 | 91 |
| | F | 1 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 104 |
| | G | | 10 | 10 | | 6 | 6 | 100 |
| | H | | 12 | 12 | | 14 | 14 | 101 |
| | I | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 7 | 7 | 103 |
| | K | | 10 | 10 | | 8 | 8 | 86 |
| Totals | 10 | 135 | 145 | 5 | 86 | 91 | 1,070 |
145 killed == 13.5 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 531.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. (1862） | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va., June 9, 1864 | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. (1863） | 17 | Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864 | 7 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 4 | Petersburg, Va., June 19, 1864 | 1 |
| Brandy Station, Va. | 1 | Petersburg, Va., June 23, 1864 | 1 |
| Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864 | 45 | Fort Stevens, D. C. | 4 |
| Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864 | 2 | Opequon, Va. | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 9, 1864 | 2 | Flint's Hill, Va., Sept. 21, 1864 | 3 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864 | 24 | Cedar Creek, Va. | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 18, 1864 | 1 | Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1864 | 4 |
| Cold Harbor, Va., June 2, 1864 | 6 | Fall of Petersburg, Va. | 2 |
| Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864 | 6 | Nov. 1864, Place unknown | 1 |
Present, also, at
Antietam; Rappahannock Station;
Fisher's Hill;
Sailor's Creek;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited principally in
Pittsburg and its vicinity.
It left the
State September 2, 1862, and went to
Washington.
It joined the army just before the
battle of Antietam, and was, soon after, assigned to
Rowley's (3d) Brigade,
Newton's (3d) Division, Sixth Corps.
It was under fire with slight loss at
Fredericksburg, but in the second battle on that field--1863--it was hotly engaged at Salem Church, where it lost 11 killed, 54 wounded, and 11 missing. The regiment entered upon the campaign of 1864, in
Getty's Division, and at the
Wilderness encountered its hardest fighting; it lost there 190 in killed and wounded, besides several who were missing;
Major Snyder fell from his horse, killed while cheering his men. At Cold Harbor the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth took part in the storming of the works, where
Lieutenant-Colonel Moody and two line officers were killed.
In the final and victorious assault on the works at
Petersburg, the regiment took a prominent part, and the
Color-Sergeant,
David W. Young, was one of three coclor-bearers in the army--one in each corps — who received a congratulatory letter from
General Grant, complimenting them as being the “three soldiers most conspicuous for gallantry in the final assault.”
Each letter was accompanied by a large sum of money which had been raised for that purpose by patriotic citizens.
