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Seventy-First Pennsylvania Infantry--“California regiment.”
Philadelphia Brigade —
Gibbon's Division--Second 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 | | | | 19 |
Company | A | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 7 | 7 | 177 |
| B | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 6 | 6 | 138 |
| C | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 10 | 10 | 192 |
| D | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 13 | 13 | 163 |
| E | | 4 | 4 | | 8 | 8 | 146 |
| F | | 8 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 144 |
| G | 2 | 18 | 20 | | 9 | 9 | 158 |
| H | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 8 | 8 | 228 |
| I | | 10 | 10 | | 10 | 10 | 147 |
| K | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 9 | 9 | 143 |
Cos. L. M. N.
O. P. | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 11 | 11 | |
Totals | 14 | 147 | 161 | 1 | 98 | 99 | 1,655 |
Total of killed and wounded, 565; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 21.
battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
Picket, Va., Sept. 21, 1861 | 1 | Antietam, Md. | 37 |
Falls Church, Va. | 3 | Fredericksburg, Va. (1862) | 9 |
Poolesville, Md. | 1 | Fredericksburg, Va. (1863) | 1 |
Ball's Bluff, Va. | 34 | Gettysburg, Pa. | 24 |
Fair Oaks, Va. | 5 | Mine Run, Va. | 1 |
Picket, Va., June 3, 1862 | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 5 |
Picket, Va., June 8, 1862 | 3 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 10 |
Picket, Va., June 9, 1862 | 1 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
Peach Orchard, Va. | 6 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 2 |
Savage Station, Va. | 2 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 6 |
Glendale, Va. | 8 | | |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
Malvern Hill; Bristoe Station;
Totopotomoy.
notes.--Recruited in
Philadelphia, May 1861, by
Edward D. Baker,
United States Senator from
California.
In July the regiment proceeded to
Fort Monroe, whence, after a short stay, it returned to
Washington and commenced active service in
Northern Virginia.
In October it was assigned to
Stone's Division, and soon after took part in the affair at Ball's Bluff.
Colonel Baker, who was in command of the brigade, was killed there, the regiment losing 13 killed, 40 wounded, and 228 captured or missing. The Seventy-first was organized with fifteen companies, but after the
Peninsular campaign the five superfluous companies were discontinued, and the men transferred to the others.
It was assigned to the Second Division of the Second Corps, in which division it remained without change.
Sedgwick commanded the division at
Antietam, where it was engaged in one of the bloodiest contests of the war. Its loss in that battle was 26 killed, 95 wounded, and 81 missing--one-third of its number on that field.
At
Gettysburg, it was stationed at the angle of the stone wall against which
Armistead and his Confederate brigade male such a desperate attack during
Pickett's charge.
In this battle the Seventy-first, under
Colonel Smith, lost 21 killed , 58 wounded, and 19 missing, out of 24 officers and 397 men carried into action.
The regiment was mustered out July 9, 1864, its term of service having expired