111th Pennsylvania Infantry

The 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 12th Corps, built these works. On the evening of July 2 it was withdrawn with the brigade, and when it returned during the night it found the enemy in the works. It assisted in repulsing an enemy charge at daylight on July 3, and after seven hours and a half of continuous fighting in which it participated, it regained the works and held them until the close of the battle. It carried 259 officers and men into action and lost 5 men killed and 1 officer and 17 men wounded. The regiment was recruited in Erie, Warren, and Crawford Counties, mustered in on January 24, 1862, re-enlisted on December 28, 1863, and mustered out on July 19, 1865. Its total enrollment was 1850. Its total losses were 7 officers and 137 men killed or dead of wounds, 4 officers and 163 men dead of disease and c., 25 officers and 285 men wounded, and 5 officers and 65 men captured or missing, for a total loss of 691. Its service included Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca, New Hope Church, Pine Knob, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, Savannah, and Durham Station at the surrender.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States