106th Pennsylvania Infantry

The 106th Pennsylvania Infantry of the Philadelphia Brigade, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, served in campaigns and battles including Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Flint Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Haymarket, Gettysburg, Kelly's Ford, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Reams' Station, Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run in February 1865, Hatcher's Run in March 1865, Dabney's Mill, and Appomattox. At Gettysburg, on the evening of July 2, 1863, the regiment assisted in repulsing a charge of the enemy on this line and made a countercharge to the Emmettsburg Road, where 3 guns of Battery B, 1st Rhode Island, were recovered and 250 prisoners were captured at the Codori House. That evening, the regiment moved to East Cemetery Hill to reinforce the 11th Corps and remained there as indicated by monument, while on the 3rd Companies A and B continued there and assisted in repulsing the enemy's final assault in the afternoon. At Gettysburg it had present 23 officers and 312 men; 2 officers and 10 men were killed and died of wounds, 8 officers and 43 men were wounded, and 1 man was captured or missing, for a total of 64 casualties. The regiment was mustered in on August 28th 1861, re-enlisted on December 29th 1863, and mustered out on June 30th 1865. Its total enrollment was 1020, and its overall losses were 9 officers and 90 men killed and died of wounds, 1 officer and 94 men died of disease etc., 24 officers and 373 men wounded, and 5 officers and 152 men captured or missing, for a total of 39 officers and 709 men, or 748 in all.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States