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One Hundred and Forty-First Pennsylvania Infantry.
Graham's Brigade —
Birney's Division--Third Corps.
Colonel Henry J. Madill;
Bvt. Major-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 | 1 | 3 | 2 | | 2 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 8 | 8 | 116 |
| | B | | 15 | 15 | | 3 | 3 | 101 |
| | C | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 98 |
| | D | | 13 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 100 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 14 | 14 | 95 |
| | F | | 20 | 20 | | 6 | 6 | 97 |
| | G | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 2 | 2 | 101 |
| | H | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 7 | 7 | 112 |
| | I | | 19 | 19 | | 5 | 5 | 100 |
| | K | | 24 | 24 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 101 |
| Totals | 6 | 161 | 167 | 3 | 76 | 79 | 1,037 |
167 killed == 16.1 per cent.
Total of killed and died of wounds, 616.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 2 | Petersburg Assault | 5 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 62 | Jerusalem Road, Va. | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 49 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 4 |
| Auburn Va. | 4 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 1 |
| Mine Run, Va. | 4 | Poplar Spring Church, Oct. 2, 1864 | 2 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 16 | Boydton Road, Va. | 3 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 9 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 1 |
| North Anna, Va. | 3 | Petersburg, Va., March 25 | 1 |
Present, also, at
Kelly's Ford;
Totopotomoy; Cold Harbor; Strawberry Plains;
Sailor's Creek;
Farmville;
Appomattox.
notes.--Seven companies were recruited in
Bradford County, two in
Susquehanna, and one in
Wayne.
It left
Harrisburg, August 30, 1862, and active service commenced at once.
It was assigned to
Robinson's (1st) Brigade,
Birney's (1st) Division, Third Corps, in which it fought at
Fredericksburg, where it was engaged mostly as a battery support.
At
Chancellorsville it charged the advancing lines of the enemy, holding them in check until nearly surrounded, when it retired slowly and in good order; its losses were 23 killed, 152 wounded, and 60 missing; total, 235 out of 419 in action.
Its ranks were so reduced by death, wounds and sickness, that only 198 answered to the morning roll-call as it stood in line, ready to enter the
battle of Gettysburg.
It fought there in the
Peach Orchard, losing 25 killed, 103 wounded, and 21 missing, a terrible percentage;
Major Israel P. Spaulding was mortally wounded in that battle.
In 1864, the One Hundred and Forty-first, with its division, was transferred to the Second Corps,
General Birney retaining command of the division.
Though small in numbers, the regiment took a gallant part in all the subsequent battles of the Second Corps, its losses being severe in proportion to its strength.
Lieutenant-Colonel Guy H. Watkins, an intrepid and skillful officer, was killed while leading his men in the assault at
Petersburg, June 18, 1864.
