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One Hundred and Forty-Third Pennsylvania Infantry.
Stone's Brigade —
Doubleday's Division--First Corps.
Colonel Edmund L. Dana;
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 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 6 | 6 | 143 |
| | B | | 13 | 13 | | 24 | 24 | 181 |
| | C | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 9 | 9 | 131 |
| | D | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 152 |
| | E | 1 | 22 | 23 | | 15 | 15 | 157 |
| | F | | 19 | 19 | | 24 | 24 | 130 |
| | G | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 20 | 20 | 151 |
| | H | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 19 | 19 | 143 |
| | I | 1 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 141 |
| | K | | 18 | 18 | | 5 | 5 | 146 |
| Totals | 8 | 143 | 151 | 2 | 150 | 152 | 1,491 |
151 killed==10.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 558; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 49.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 42 | North Anna, Va. | 7 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 57 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 3 |
| Laurel Hill, Va., May 9 | 4 | Petersburg, Va. | 12 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 10 | 12 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 1 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 8-18 | 4 | Hatcher's Run, Va., Feb. 5, 1865 | 9 |
Present, also, at
Chancellorsville;
Totopotomoy; Bethesda Church; Boydton Road.
notes.--Recruited principally in
Luzerne County, in October, 1862.
It arrived at
Washington in November, where it remained on light duty until February, 1863; it was then ordered to the front and assigned to
Colonel Roy Stone's Brigade,
Doubleday's Division, First Corps.
Although present at
Chancellorsville, it did its first fighting at
Gettysburg.
There it encountered hot work in the battle of the first day, where, out of 465 present it lost 13 killed, 128 wounded, and 70 missing; many of the latter, as afterward ascertained, were killed.
When the brigade was ordered to retire the color-sergeant refused to leave until it was too late, and fell dead while defiantly waving his colors in the face of the advancing enemy; the flag, however, was not lost, but was carried safely from the field.
In September, 363 recruits were received, which brought its effective strength up to 500 muskets or more.
On May 3d, 1864, it started on the
Wilderness campaign, then in
Wadsworth's (4th) Division (afterwards
Cutler's), Fifth Corps, with
Colonel Roy Stone still in command of the brigade.
At the
Wilderness,
Lieutenant-Colonel John D. Musser was killed, and the regiment lost 23 killed, 136 wounded, and 61 captured or missing; two days later it was engaged at
Spotsylvania, where its losses aggregated 16 killed, 54 wounded, and 3 missing. The regiment fought its last battle at
Hatcher's Run — Dabney's Mills — and in February, 1865.
was ordered on guard duty at
Hart's Island, in New York harbor, where it remained until June 12, 1865, when it was mustered out While in the Fifth Corps the regiment served, also, in
Griffin's (1st) Division, and in
Crawford's (3d) Division, and the brigade was commanded successively by
General Edward S. Bragg,
General Joshua L. Chamberlain,
Colonel J. W. Hoffman, and other distinguished officers.
