11th Pennsylvania Reserves

The 11th Pennsylvania Reserves, also designated the 40th Infantry in the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 5th Corps, was mustered in between May 9 and July 5, 1861, and mustered out on June 13, 1864. It was recruited in Cambria, Indiana, Butler, Fayette, Armstrong, Westmoreland, and Jefferson Counties. At Gettysburg it had 25 officers and 367 men present; 1 officer and 4 men were killed, and 2 officers and 33 men were wounded. Its total enrollment was 1200. Overall losses were 11 officers and 185 men killed and died of wounds, 1 officer and 113 men died of disease and other causes, 19 officers and 260 men wounded, and 31 officers and 727 men captured or missing, for totals of 61 officers and 1285 men and total casualties of 1346. On July 2 in the evening, it charged from the hill in rear to this position and held it until the afternoon of July 3, when the brigade advanced through the woods to the front and left, drove the enemy, and captured many prisoners. Its service included Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Glendale or New Market Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, Groveton, 2d Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomy, and Bethesda Church.

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