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Fiftieth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Christ's Brigade —
Willcox's Division--Ninth 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 | 1 | | 1 | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | | 21 | 21 | | 21 | 21 | 203 |
| | B | | 8 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 164 |
| | C | 1 | 25 | 26 | | 12 | 12 | 177 |
| | D | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 32 | 32 | 215 |
| | E | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 23 | 23 | 181 |
| | F | | 14 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 182 |
| | G | | 12 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 189 |
| | H | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 16 | 16 | 176 |
| | I | | 11 | 11 | | 14 | 14 | 164 |
| | K | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 17 | 17 | 221 |
| Totals | 8 | 156 | 164 | 4 | 180 | 184 | 1,889 |
Total of killed and wounded, 594; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 76.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Pocotaligo, S. C. | 4 | Wilderness, Va. | 20 |
| Picket, S. C., 1862 | 1 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 41 |
| Manassas, Va. | 16 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 11 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 8 |
| South Mountain, Md. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. June 17, 1864 | 16 |
| Antietam, Md. | 12 | Petersburg Mine, Va. | 3 |
| Jackson, Miss. | 1 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 12 |
| Blue Springs, Tenn. | 1 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 9 |
| Campbell's Station, Tenn. | 2 | Peeble's Farm, Va. | 2 |
| Knoxville, Tenn. | 3 | | |
Present, also, at
Coosa River, S. C.;
Fredericksburg;
Siege of Vicksburg,
Miss.;
Hatcher's Run;
Fort Stedman.
notes.--Organized at
Harrisburg, Pa., in September, 1861, having been recruited in the central part of the
State.
Proceeding to
Annapolis it was brigaded with
General Stevens's command, and in October sailed with
General Sherman's (T. W.) expedition to
Hilton Head, S. C. The regiment remained in this department several months, during which time it had a varied experience in campaigning and fighting; at
Pocotaligo,
Captain Charles H. Parker was killed while bravely leading a forlorn hope across the string pieces of an abandoned bridge.
In July, 1862, the Fiftieth joined the Ninth Corps at
Fort Monroe, then on its way to reinforce
Pope.
It was actively engaged in the battles of
Manassas and
Chantilly, in which the regiment lost 19 killed, 119 wounded, and 15 missing; total, 153.
After more hard fighting, at
Antietam, it was transferred with the
Corps to the
West, where it participated in the
Siege of Vicksburg, it being then in
Potter's (2d) Division.
In the fighting before
Jackson, Miss., the regiment loss its
Lieutenant-Colonel, thomas
S. Brenholz, who was mortally wounded there.
The Fiftieth shared the privations and dangers of the campaign at
Knoxville, Tenn., and then returned to
Virginia in the spring of 1864, it having reenlisted in the meanwhile and received its veteran furlough.
It fought under
Grant from the
Rapidan to
Appomattox, and was mustered out July 30, 1865.
Its casualties at
Spotsylvania were 23 killed, 109 wounded, and 113 captured or missing. At the dedication of the
Gettysburg monument, July 4, 1865, the Fiftieth was present by order of the War Department as a representative of the army.
