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One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Russell's Brigade —
Wright's Division--Sixth 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 | 2 | | 2 | | | | 15 |
| Company | A | | 11 | 11 | | 6 | 6 | 115 |
| | B | 3 | 12 | 15 | | 6 | 6 | 121 |
| | C | | 15 | 15 | | 4 | 4 | 135 |
| | D | 1 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 117 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 12 | 12 | 124 |
| | F | | 10 | 10 | | 6 | 6 | 122 |
| | G | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 9 | 9 | 118 |
| | H | | 20 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 115 |
| | I | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 4 | 4 | 114 |
| | K | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 6 | 6 | 120 |
| Totals | 9 | 132 | 141 | 1 | 71 | 72 | 1,216 |
141 killed == 11.5 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 519; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 21.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va., April 29, 1863 | 1 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 56 |
| Salem Church, Va. | 24 | Hanover, Va. | 1 |
| Banks's Ford, Va, May 6, 1863 | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 4 |
| Rappahannock Station, Va, | 17 | Opequon, Va. | 7 |
| Brandy Station, Va. | 1 | Petersburg, Va. | 8 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 18 | Sailor's Creek, Va. | 3 |
Present, also, at First Fredericksburg Marye's Heights;
Gettysburg;
Mine Run; Weldon Railroad;
Fort Stevens;
Hatcher's Run;
Appomattox.
notes.--Recruited at
Philadelphia in August, 1862.
It arrived at
Washington, September 1st, and after a month's stay proceeded to
Harper's Ferry where it joined the Army of the Potomac.
It was there assigned to
General Calvin E. Pratt's Brigade of
Howe's Division.
The regiment was under fire at the first
battle of Fredericksburg, 1862, but was not actively engaged.
In the second battle--May 3, 1863--it took part in the engagement at Salem Church, where it sustained a loss of 10 killed, 74 wounded, and 38 missing, a total of 122 out of 432 present for duty.
It was at that time in
Russell's Brigade,
Brooks's Division.
In the affair at Rappahannock Station the brigade made a successful bayonet charge, capturing the works, together with a large number of prisoners, flags, and cannon.
The loss in the One Hundred and Nineteenth was 7 killed, 37 wounded, and 1 missing;
Colonel Ellmaker led the brigade,
General Russell being in command of the division.
The regiment was hotly engaged at
Spotsylvania, being one of the picked regiments in
Upton's storming party on May 10th; on the 12th it participated in the bloody contest at the “Angle” where
Major Truefit and
Captain Warner, the regimental commandants were killed.
The loss at the
Wilderness and
Spotsylvania--May 5th to 12th--was 231 killed and wounded, out of about 400 effectives that crossed the
Rapidan.
It also suffered a heavy percentage of loss in the Shenandoah Valley, its previous casualties having left but few in line.
Early in the spring of 1863, the regiment was transferred to the Third Brigade, First Division, in which command it remained without further change.
This division was commanded, successively, by
Generals Brooks,
Wright,
Russell, and
Wheaton; the brigade by
Generals Russell,
Eustis, and
Edwards.
