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111th Pennsylvania Infantry

Organized: Camp Reed, near Erie, PA; mustered in 1/24/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Washington, DC 7/19/1865

 

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
  Maj. Thomas M. Walker

 

Arms:
   Enfield Rifle

Major Walker obtained Enfields in replacement for the regiment's
often-defective Belgian rifles in Washington, DC in August 1862.

 

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Twelfth Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 12th Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Corps


On the Antietam Campaign

"With the division, it soon after proceeded on the march through Maryland, and participated in the battle of Antietam, where, for eight hours, it was engaged in severe fighting. For the gallantry exhibited in this engagement, and especially for the heroic daring displayed in the charge which cleared the enemy from the grove, where stood the little church, around which was the severest fighting, Colonel Stainrook, the brigade commander, presented the regiment on the field, with a stand of colors. General George S. Greene, commanding the division, in a letter to Governor Curtin, says, 'The One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment behaved gallantly at the battle of Antietam, where I was witness to its good conduct.' "

"It went into the fight with three hundred muskets, and lost thirty-three killed or mortally wounded, seventy-one wounded, and seven missing. Captain Arthur Corrigan was among the killed. Major Walker, Captain Frank Wagner, and Lieutenants Martellus H. Todd, Peter S. Bancroft, Joseph Cronenberger, Albert E. Black and Charles Woeltge, were among the wounded. Lieutenant Bancroft had an arm shattered above the elbow, the bone of which was disjointed at the shoulder socket and removed - a most painful operation - the effect of which was anticipated to prove mortal, but from which he recovered and afterwards served in the Invalid Corps."
(from Bates)

Statistics

Initial Strength: 243; Killed in Action (KIA): 33; Wounded (WIA): 71; Missing in Action (MIA): 7;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 45.7%

Maps Showing this Unit

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #48: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 12 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #49: Stainrook's Brigade, Greene's Division - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #117: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #51: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #52: Stainrook's Brigade, Greene's Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM

More on the Web

John Richards Boyle's Soldiers true; the Story of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers and of its Campaigns in the War for the Union, 1861-1865 (1903) is online from the Hathi Trust.

References & Notes

Source: Bates, Samuel P., History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: 1868-1871, extracted online at Pennsylvania in the Civil War.

We have 128 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

 

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A PvtBassett, William WIA   09/17     We have some details for this person
A PvtCalkins, William D.WIA   09/17     We have some details for this person
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B CorpElsworth, Henry W.WIA   09/17     We have some details for this person
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