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211th
Pennsylvania Infantry
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211th
Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 5 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Two Hundred and Eleventh Infantry. — Cols., James H.
Trimble, Levi A. Dodd; Lieut. -Cols., Levi A. Dodd, Augustus A. Mechling,
Charles McLain, William A. Coulter; Majs., Augustus A. Mechling, Elias
B. Lee, H. King Smith. This regiment, from the counties of Crawford,
Jefferson, McKean, Mercer, Erie, Warren and Westmoreland, rendezvoused
at Camp Reynolds, Pittsburg, and was mustered into the U. S. service
during the first half of Sept., 1864, for one year. Immediately after
its organization it left for the front and was assigned to Potter's
provisional brigade, Army of the James, on the Bermuda front. As soon as
it reached its position in the intrenchments it was ordered to appear
upon the parapets in full range of the enemy's guns in order to create a
diversion in favor of the storming party about to move on Fort Harrison,
and 2 men of Co. F were instantly killed. On Nov. 27, with the other Pa.
regiment of its brigade, it joined the Army of the Potomac, where it
became a part of the 2nd brigade, 3d division, 9th corps. During the
winter the camp of the regiment was located midway between Fort Howard
and Fort Alexander Hayes. In the action of March 25, 1865, when Fort
Stedman was taken and recaptured, the 211th suffered a loss of 1 killed
and 10 wounded. It advanced gallantly under the immediate command of
Gen. Hartranft and it was supposed that it would be sacrificed by the
fire of the enemy, while advancing a mile away on high ground, but the
assault on the immediate front took place and the command suffered but
little. In the final assault on Petersburg, April 2, the regiment lost 4
officers and 17 men killed, 4 officers and 89 men wounded, and 21 men
missing, a total of 135. Lieut. -Col. McLain, and Lieuts. Sparks,
Alexander and Tarr were killed, and Maj. Lee and Lieut. Pelton were
mortally wounded. Capt. Gourlay and Lieut. Gilson were among the
severely wounded. It will thus be seen that the command had its full
share in the desperate fighting. It now moved along the South Side
railroad with the division in charge of army trains, as far as Nottoway
Court House, where it remained until the 20th. It then proceeded to
Alexandria, where it was musterd out on June 2, 1865. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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