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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]
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.
140th Regiment; 141st Regiment; ... Union veterans of 30th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 1st ... The inscription on the drum reads "Company D 1st Inft. Regt. P.R.V ...
This unit was created by five men in western Pennsylvania, among them James J. Purman who would go on to win the Medal of Honor alongside Pipes. When the 140th was mustered, Pipes was ranked a sergeant, and Purman a second lieutenant. [1] In 1863, the 140th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. On the first day of battle ...
139th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment; 140th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment; 141st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment; ... Southard's Independent Company
1st Pennsylvania Reserves; 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves; 6th Pennsylvania Reserves; 7th Pennsylvania Reserves; 11th Pennsylvania Reserves: Col Samuel M. Jackson; 13th Pennsylvania Reserves (1st Rifles) 2nd Brigade Col Richard Coulter (w) Col James L. Bates 12th Massachusetts: Col James L. Bates; 83rd New York (9th Militia) 97th New York; 11th ...
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.
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 ...