90th Pennsylvania Volunteers

The 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers was recruited in Philadelphia and answered the first call on April 6, 1861. It served until August 9 as the 9th Pennsylvania Volunteers, then was reorganized on October 1, 1861, as the 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Serving in the First and Fifth Corps, it took part in all the important battles of the Army of the Potomac until it was mustered out on November 26, 1864. On July 1, 1863, under Major A.J. Sellers, while Colonel Peter Lyle commanded the 1st Brigade, the regiment fought from one to three o'clock P.M. on the extreme right of the 1st Corps on Seminary Ridge, with eight companies refused facing the Mummasburg Road. There it engaged Page's Virginia Confederate battery and O'Neal's Alabama Brigade of Rodes' Division until its ammunition was exhausted, losing 11 men killed and mortally wounded, 44 wounded, and 39 captured and missing, a total of 94 out of 208 engaged. Three regiments of Iverson's North Carolina Confederate infantry were captured on the brigade front. On July 2 it occupied Cemetery Hill and in the evening moved to the left of the 2nd Corps, returning during the evening to this position.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States