Federal Regiment

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

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

Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)
Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)

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:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bassett, William	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Calkins, William D.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Clark, William H.	MWIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Corbin, Austin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Pierce, Franklin M.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Richards, Edward	WIA 09/17
A	Lt	Todd, Martellus Harmon	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Vanlouven, A. G.	WIA 09/17
B	Capt	Corrigan, Arthur	KIA 09/17
B	Corp	Elsworth, Henry W.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Good, John S.	KIA 09/17
B	Corp	Haight, Charles B.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McClellan, Chauncy	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Richardson, Jonathan M.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Vanlouven, A. G.	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Allen, Ebenzer F.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Beck, Frederick G.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Day, George W.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Donnell, Robert	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Edy, Benjamin Franklin
C	Corp	Galusha, Truman	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Leach, Ira	KIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Mills, Theodore W.	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Van Buskirk, Josiah	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Whipple, Edwin Martin	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Aber, Darius	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anderson, John	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anderson, Nelson	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Blanchard, Calvin Humphrey	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Brasington, De Witt Clinton	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Brown, David L.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fahlman, Jacob	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fredenburg, William	MWIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Head, George Alonzo	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Knopf, Adam	MWIA 09/17
D	Corp	Lowman, Henry	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Oliver, George C.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Peters, George	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ploss, Wheeler	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Siggins, David Porter	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Simmons, William H.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Sodagreen, Charles	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Stanford, Peter N.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Winchester, R. A.	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Bancroft, Peter Sanford	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Cain, John F.	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Keep, Alsinus	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Miller, Jacob N.	KIA 09/17
E	Corp	Quiggle, George	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Strayer, Charles	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Allen, Don Octave	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bisbee, Curtis C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bush, Norton C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Chambers, Eugene S.	WIA 09/00
F	Corp	Clark, Frederick	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Franz, Peter	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Fritts, Christian H.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Graham, Robert M.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Howard, Orville Alonzo	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Orton, Ashbel	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Parsons, Dennis	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Putnam, Clark T.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Reed, Nathan W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Roberts, Oliver	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Selkregg, George	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Thompson, William W.	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Tracy, Henry W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Wellington, Edwin R.	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Abbott, Levi A.	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Allen, Stephen	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Brady, Joseph H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Burdick, Albert	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Carpenter, George W.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Corey, William	WIA 09/17
G	Lt	Cronenberger, Joseph	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cronin, Daniel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Irish, Albert	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Sherwood, M. M.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Snodgrass, M. P.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Yokes, Thomas	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Andrews, Alsinas
H	Pvt	Burkel, Johannes Adam	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Cherman, George
H	Pvt	Donovan, John	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Dudenhoeffer, Frank	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Ewing, James
H	Pvt	Fox, Jerrold	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Gibson, Daniel Gilbert
H	Pvt	Hammer, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Heintz, Peter
H	Pvt	Hills, Warren B.
H	Pvt	Hoobler, James
H	Pvt	Houck, George
H	Sgt	Irish, Edwin G.
H	Pvt	King, Hiram Dickson
H	Pvt	Kuhn, Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Langendueffer, Fritz	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Martin, Michael	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Martin, Robert S.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Morgan, William
H	Pvt	Norton, Lawrence
H	Pvt	O'Leary, Thomas
H	Pvt	Quinn, Charles	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Read, Walter Van Buren
H	Pvt	Turner, William	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Walker, Josiah H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Wolf, Joseph H.
I	Pvt	Alderman, Lafayette F.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Davis, Isaac	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Denney, William	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Fawnhaus, Philip	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Foust, Alonzo
I	Pvt	Gill, Joseph	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Kean, Daniel W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Martz, Andrew	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	McCann, Arthur	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Pittinger, Isaac	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Robbins, Lyman W.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Ross, Serenus	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Ross, William	KIA 09/17
I	Capt	Wagner, Frank	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Woltge, Charles	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Armor, John R.	MWIA 09/17
K	Lt	Black, Albert E.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Dougherty, John	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gerenflow, Jacob	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Patterson, Alexander	WIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Walker, Thomas McCormick	WIA 09/17

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