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One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Brooke's Brigade —
Barlow's Division--Second Corps.
Colonel James A. Beaver;
Bvt. Brig. Gen.
| 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 | 14 |
| Company | A | 1 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 141 |
| | B | | 14 | 14 | | 30 | 30 | 130 |
| | C | 7 | 28 | 35 | | 11 | 11 | 138 |
| | D | | 29 | 29 | 2 | 18 | 20 | 148 |
| | E | | 14 | 14 | | 25 | 25 | 122 |
| | F | | 17 | 17 | | 13 | 13 | 121 |
| | G | | 19 | 19 | | 10 | 10 | 117 |
| | H | 2 | 24 | 26 | | 18 | 18 | 141 |
| | I | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 19 | 19 | 132 |
| | K | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 20 | 20 | 135 |
| Totals | 12 | 198 | 210 | 4 | 183 | 187 | 1,339 |
210 killed == 15.6 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 769; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 62.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 48 | Petersburg, Va. (assault) | 5 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 31 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 11 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 1 | Jerusalem Road, Va. | 5 |
| Po River, Va., May 10 | 37 | Deep Bottom, Va. | 8 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 12 | 29 | Ream's Station, Va. | 6 |
| Spotsylvania, Va., May 16 | 1 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 2 |
| Totopotomoy, Va. | 2 | White Oak Road, Va. | 7 |
| Cold Harbor, Va. | 14 | Farmville, Va. | 2 |
| Prison guard, Salisbury, N. C. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at Bristoe Station;
Mine Run;
North Anna; Strawberry Plains; Sutherland Station;
Appomattox.
notes.--Organized at
Harrisburg, in September, 1862, seven of the companies having been recruited in
Centre County.
At the request of the line officers,
James A. Beaver,
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania, was appointed
Colonel.
After three months of service in
Maryland, it joined the Army of the Potomac, and was assigned to
Caldwell's (1st) Brigade,
Hancock's (1st) Division, Second Corps; it remained in this division (First) during its entire service.
Its first battle occurred at
Chancellorsville, where it lost 31 killed, 119 wounded, and 14 missing,
Colonel Beaver being among the severely wounded.
General Caldwell commanded the division at
Gettysburg, and
Colonel Cross (Fifth New Hampshire), the brigade; the loss of the regiment was 19 killed, 101 wounded, and 5 missing. It went into winter quarters (1863-4) near
Stevensburg, Va., receiving in the meanwhile 283 conscripts and 120 recruits, a needed accession.
It was prominently engaged at
Po River and Spottylvania, where it lost 33 killed, 235 wounded,and 33 missing; total, 301, the greatest loss of any infantry regiment at
Spotsylvania.
Colonel Beaver, while in command of a brigade, was severely wounded at
Petersburg, June 16, 1864.
He rejoined his regiment just as it was entering the fight at Ream's Station, where he was again wounded, and suffered amputation of a leg. In September, 1864, the War Department ordered that one regiment in each division be armed with breech-loading rifles; the One Hundred and Forty-eighth was selected by
General Hancock as the deserving one in its division to be thus armed.
