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One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Stone's Brigade —
Doubleday's Division--First 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 | | | | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 10 | 10 | 134 |
| | B | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 16 | 16 | 146 |
| | C | | 16 | 16 | | 14 | 14 | 136 |
| | D | | 18 | 18 | | 16 | 16 | 125 |
| | E | | 13 | 13 | | 21 | 21 | 135 |
| | F | | 16 | 16 | | 17 | 17 | 144 |
| | G | | 11 | 11 | | 24 | 24 | 151 |
| | H | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 18 | 18 | 144 |
| | I | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 16 | 16 | 159 |
| | K | | 13 | 13 | | 20 | 20 | 163 |
| Totals | 4 | 160 | 164 | | 172 | 172 | 1,454 |
164 killed == 11.2 per cent.
Total killed and wounded, 613; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 60; “missing in action” included with the killed, 22.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 1 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 4 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 66 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 42 | Petersburg, Va. (assault) | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 8. | 10 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 3 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 9, 1864 | 1 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 8 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864 | 5 | Weldon Railroad, Va., Dec. 8, 1864 | 1 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 11, 1864 | 1 | Peeble's Farm, Va. | 1 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864 | 3 | Dabney's Mills, Va. | 2 |
| North Anna, Va. | 9 | | |
Present, also, at
Totopotomoy;
Hatcher's Run.
notes.--The One Hundred and Forty-ninth and its companion regiment, the One Hundred and Fiftieth of the same brigade, were also known as “Bucktail” regiments, each man wearing a bucktail in his cap in imitation of the famous regiment in the Pennsylvania Reserves.
The men were recruited in August, 1862, from the forests and mountain districts of the
State, and proved worthy of their adopted name.
Roy Stone,
Major of the original Bucktails, and an officer of more than ordinary ability, was appointed
Colonel.
He was, soon after, given a brigade of
Pennsylvania troops which included the two new Bucktail regiments.
The brigade was only slightly engaged at
Chancellorsville, but at
Gettysburg it took a meritorious part in the battle of the first day. It was then in
Doubleday's (3d) Division, First Corps; its casualties on that field were 66 killed and mortally wounded, 159 wounded, and 111 captured or missing; total, 336.
Colonel Stone being in command of the brigade at
Gettysburg,
Lieutenant-Colonel Walton Dwight led the regiment; both fell severely wounded.
In 1864,
Stone's brigade formed a part of
Wadsworth's Division, Fifth Corps.
In the
battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864, the regiment lost 11 killed, 109 wounded, and 95 captured or missing; and at
Spotsylvania, 12 killed, 84 wounded, and 3 missing; many of the missing never returned.
In February, 1865, the regiment was ordered to
Elmira, where it remained on duty at the prison camp until the close of the war.
