48th Pennsylvania Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Harrisburg September, 1861. Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., September 24-25, and duty there until November 11, 1861. Duty at Fort Clarke, Hatteras Inlet, until May, 1862. Attached to Williams Brigade, Burnside's North Carolina Expedition, to April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. North Carolina, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1863, and Army of the Ohio to June, 1863. Unattached, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps. Army Ohio, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Ohio, to April, 1864, and Army Potomac to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Companies "A," "B," "C," "D," "H" and "I" at New Berne, N. C., March 14, 1862. Regiment reunited at New Berne May 23, and duty there until July 6. Moved to Fortress Monroe July 6-8, thence to Fredericksburg August 2-4. Joined Pope at Culpeper, Va., August 13. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1.
- September 3-20, 1862 -
The Maryland Campaign
- At Pleasant Valley, Md., until October 27.
- Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 27-November 17.
- November 10, 1862 -
Action at Amissville, Virginia
Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. Burnside's second Campaign January 20-24, 1863. Duty at Falmouth until February 19. Moved to Newport News, thence to Covington, Ky., March 26-April 1. Provost and guard duty at Lexington, Ky., until September 10. At Knoxville, Tenn., until October 4. Blue Springs, Tenn., October 10. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Campbell's Station November 16. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Pursuit of Longstreet December 5-29. Regiment reenlisted at Blain's Cross Roads December 7, and on Veteran furlough until March, 1864. Left Pottsville, Pa., March 14. At Annapolis, Md., until April.
- May 4-June 12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign
- May 5-7, 1864 -
Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia
- May 8-21, 1864 -
Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
- Stannard's Mills May 21.
- May 22-26, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the North Anna River, Virginia
- May 26-28, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Pamunkey River, Virginia
- May 28-31, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia
- June 1-12, 1864 -
Battles of Cold Harbor, Virginia
- June 1-3, 1864 -
Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia
- June 1-3, 1864 -
- May 5-7, 1864 -
Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30. Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2, 1865. Occupation of Petersburg April 3. March to Farmville April 3-9. Moved to Petersburg and City Point April 20-24, thence to Alexandria April 26-28. Grand Review May 23.
- Duty at Washington and Alexandria until July.
- Mustered out July 17, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 145 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 142 Enlisted men by disease. Total 301.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 760, 761, 910, 932, 933, 934, 936, 938, 939, 940, 941, 1589-1590)