Eleventh U.S. Infantry

On July 2, the Eleventh U.S. Infantry, six companies under Major Delancey Floyd Jones in the Army of the Potomac's Fifth Corps, Second Division, Second Brigade, arrived in the morning with the brigade and took position on the right of the Twelfth Corps. It afterward moved to the left and at 5 p.m. formed line on the right of Little Round Top, then advanced across Plum Run to the crest of the rocky wooded hill in front under fire from sharpshooters on the left, facing left with the Wheatfield on the right and rear. After Confederates opened fire on the right flank and advanced through the Wheatfield in the rear, the regiment withdrew with the brigade under heavy musketry and artillery fire and formed line at the right of Little Round Top. On July 3, it remained in the same position. Present were 23 officers and 281 men; casualties were 3 officers and 18 men killed, 7 officers and 85 men wounded, and 9 men missing.

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