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One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania Infantry.

Stone's Brigade — Doubleday's Division--First Corps.

(1) Col. Langhorne Wister; Bvt. Brig. Gen (2) Col. Henry S. Huidekoper. (3) Col. George W. Jones.

companies. killed and died of wounds. died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. Total Enrollment.
Officers. Men. Total. Officers. Men. Total.
Field and Staff             16
Company A   13 13   8 8 95
  B 2 5 7 1 11 12 87
  C   9 9   14 14 122
  D 1 11 12   6 6 94
  E   11 11   9 9 95
  F   13 13   4 4 88
  G 1 16 17   11 11 90
  H   16 16   12 12 113
  I   14 14   12 12 95
  K         7 7 113
Totals 4 108 112 1 94 95 1,008

112 killed == 12.5 per cent.1

Total of killed and wounded, 431; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 38.

battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W.
Gettysburg, Pa. 57 North Anna, Va. 2
Wilderness, Va., May 5 14 Bethesda Church, Va. 1
Wilderness, Va., May 6 8 Petersburg, Va. 8
Spotsylvania, Va., May 8 5 Weldon Railroad, Va. 1
Spotsylvania, Va., May 10 6 Hatcher's Run, Va. 1
Spotsylvania, Va., May 12 4 Dabney's Mills, Va. 5

Present, also, at Fitz Hugh's Crossing; Chancellorsville; Totopotomoy; Cold Harbor.

notes.--Organized in September, 1862, as one of the regiments for Roy Stone's Bucktail Brigade. Langhorne Wister, an officer in the old Bucktails, was appointed Colonel. Upon its arrival at Washington the regiment was ordered on guard duty in and about the city. Company K was stationed at the Soldier's Home, Mr. Lincoln's summer residence, where it remained on duty as a body-guard to the President during its entire term of service, the One Hundred and Fiftieth, consequently, taking only nine companies to the field; its percentage of killed was far above the average, although the number killed was not numerically large. At Gettysburg the regiment took 417 officers and men into action, losing 29 killed, 151 wounded, and 84 missing; total, 264. Both Wister and Huidekoper were severely wounded in that battle, the latter losing an arm; the regiment was in Stone's Brigade of Doubleday's Division, and fought on the Chambersburg Pike in the first day's battle; it was ably handled by its field officers, and rendered good service. Stone's Brigade was transferred in 1864 to the Fifth Corps, and placed in Wadsworth's (4th) Division. In June it was transferred to Griffin's (1st) Division. Col. Stone was disabled in the battle of the Wilderness, and was succeeded in his command of the brigade by General Bragg of Wisconsin, an able and gallant officer of the famous Iron Brigade. The One Hundred and Fiftieth fought its last battle on February 5, 1865, at Dabney's Mills. It was then ordered to Elmira, in company with the One Hundred and Forty-ninth, where it performed guard duty at the prison camp until mustered out.


1 Not including Company K. which was on detached duty during the entire service.

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