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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 ...
100th Pennsylvania; Artillery Maine Light, 2nd Battery (B) Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery; Second Division BG Robert B. Potter. 1st Brigade Col Zenas Bliss [9] Col John I. Curtin 36th Massachusetts; 58th Massachusetts; 51st New York; 45th Pennsylvania: Col John I. Curtin; 48th Pennsylvania; 7th Rhode Island; 2nd Brigade Col Simon G. Griffin
Monument to 140th New York. and O'Rorke at the Gettysburg Battlefield. O'Rorke Bridge. Patrick Henry O'Rorke or O'Rourke [1] (March 25, 1837 – July 2, 1863) was an Irish-American immigrant who became a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry: July 3, 1863 July 21, 1897 "Without orders, led a charge of his squadron upon the flank of the enemy, checked his attack, and cut off and dispersed the rear of his column." Harvey M. Munsell: Sergeant 99th Pennsylvania Infantry: July 1 – July 3, 1863 February 5, 1866 "Gallant and courageous conduct as color bearer.
In 1864, Bingham became aide-de-camp to Major General Gouverneur K. Warren. [1] 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."
I Corps (First Corps) was the designation of three different corps-sized units in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Separate formation called the I Corps served in the Army of the Ohio/Army of the Cumberland under Alexander M. McCook from September 29, 1862 to November 5, 1862, in the Army of the Mississippi under George W. Morgan from January 4, 1863 to January 12, 1863 (which was ...
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.