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The 140th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War, serving in the Eastern Theater. Recruited in late 1862, it fought from the Battle of Chancellorsville through the war until the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender at Appomattox Court House. [ 1 ]
There are gaps in the numbering of infantry regiments because Pennsylvania numbered all volunteer regiments, regardless of branch, in sequence depending on when the regiment was raised. For example, the 6th Cavalry was also numbered the 70th Volunteer Regiment since it was raised between the 69th Infantry and the 71st Infantry, so there is no ...
During the Battle of the Wilderness during the Virginia Overland Campaign, on May 6, 1864, as captain of Company G, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry, he "rallied and led into action a portion of the troops who had given way under fierce assaults of the enemy." [8] He was awarded a Medal of Honor on August 26, 1893, for these actions.
140th Pennsylvania Infantry: July 2, 1863 & August 25, 1864 April 5, 1898 "While a sergeant and retiring with his company before the rapid advance of the enemy at Gettysburg, he and a companion stopped and carried to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade; in this act both he and his companion were severely wounded.
1st Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C and D; 80th New York (20th Militia) 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry; 68th Pennsylvania; 114th Pennsylvania; Engineer Troops: 50th New York Engineers; Battalion United States Engineers; Guards and Orderlies: Independent Company Oneida (New York) Cavalry
140th Pennsylvania: Col John Fraser; 183rd Pennsylvania: Col George P. McLean; 2nd Brigade Col Thomas A. Smyth. 28th Massachusetts: Ltc George W. Cartwright; 63rd New York: Maj Thomas Touhy (mw) 69th New York: Cpt Richard Moroney; 88th New York: Cpt Denis F. Burke; 116th Pennsylvania: Ltc Richard C. Dale; 3rd Brigade Col Paul Frank
Men Wanted for the Invalid Corps notice, 1863 10th VRC band in Washington, 1865. The Veteran Reserve Corps (originally the Invalid Corps) was a military reserve organization created within the Union Army during the American Civil War to allow partially disabled or otherwise infirm soldiers (or former soldiers) to perform light duty, freeing non-disabled soldiers to serve on the front lines.
The 155th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Federal infantry regiment that served in the American Civil War in the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater of the conflict. Recruits from the Pittsburgh area and Allegheny County organized at Camp Copeland from September 2–19, 1862 into the 155th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer ...