48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry served in the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Corps, was recruited in Schuylkill County, organized in August and September 1861, and mustered out on July 17th 1865. At Antietam, where its position was 385 yards south 70 degrees east, it suffered 60 casualties: 8 killed, 51 wounded, and 1 missing. Its service included Newbern, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Blue Springs, Campbell's Station, Siege of Knoxville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomy, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon Rail Road, Poplar Spring Church, Boydton Plank Road, and the assault on Petersburg. The regiment also dug the Petersburg Mine, commenced June 25 and exploded June 30 1864. James Nagle, organizer and first colonel of the regiment, had been a captain of Company B, 1st Penna. Regiment in the War with Mexico and later a colonel of the 6th, 48th, 39th, and 149th Regiments Penna. Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. He received a commission as brigadier general of volunteers on the battlefield of Antietam on September 17, 1862, was born April 5th 1822, and died April 22d 1866.

Shepherdstown, Maryland · United States