Federal Regiment

71st Pennsylvania Infantry

"The 1st California Regiment"

Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
  Col. Isaac J. Wistar
  Capt. Richard P. Smith
  Capt. Enoch E. Lewis

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps

Unit history

"[In August 1861] ... hailing from Philadelphia and New York City, but also from Washington, D.C., New England and the West, as well as a goodly number from Ireland, Scotland, England and even Jamaica, [the men] found themselves training along the crowded streets of New York City. These boys were members of the California Regiment, a unit with no more than a tenuous link to the state for which it was named, that had been organized in the first weeks following the surrender of Fort Sumter by Senator Edward Dickinson Baker of Oregon."

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #116: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #36: Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #39: Howard's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM

References & Notes

See a fine narrative of the Colonel and his Regiment at Antietam, from e-History.

We have 59 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bulmer, Benjamin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Campbell, Hugh Alexander	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Chorlton, John	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dawson, Robert	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Pillings, Thomas	KIA 09/17
A	Capt	Smith, Richard Penn	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Bower, Frederick	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Campbell, James	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	LeBold, Jacob	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Migent, John	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Miller, Charles	KIA 09/17
B	Lt	Wilson, William	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Brown, David Paul	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Buchanan, Henry W.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Flood, Arthur J.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Handy, David	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Higgins, Samuel W.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Kinsella, James	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Knight, Harry W.	MWIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Paist, Alban T.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Slater, Samuel	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Taney, Washington	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Angleman, George	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Candy, Michael R.	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Hunt, Elijah R.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brady, William	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	De Putron, Jacob Coleman
E	Pvt	Logan, Charles	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Anderson, William J.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Caldwell, James	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	DeYoung, Benjamin	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Farrady, William	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Harwood, William	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Black, William	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	McCarol, James	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Oswald, Jacob	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, Philip	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Fallows, William	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Loveland, Albert Eugene	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Sargster, William	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Williamson, John	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brown, Richard	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Druvenga, Rudolph B.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Griffith, Milton J.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Murray, Alexander	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Noble, Samuel F.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Carey, John	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Carlin, John C.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Convery, John	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Dellinger, John	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Kildea, Thomas	WIA 09/17
K	Capt	Lewis, Enoch E
K	Sgt	Lynch, Thomas	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	McKewoen, Hugh	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Mooney, Patrick	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Mullen, Joseph	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Murphy, James	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Stephens, Alex	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Wistar, Isaac Jones	WIA 09/17

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