48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
(Front Inscription):
48th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry
1st Brigade 2nd Division 9th Corps
Location 385 yards south 70 degrees east
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Casualties at Antietam
Killed 8
Wounded 51
Missing 1
Total 60
Organized August September 1861
Mustered out July 17th 1865
Recruited in Schuylkill County
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Battles Participated in
Newbern - Spotsylvania
Second Bull Run - North Anna
Chantilly - Totopotomy
South Mountain - Bethesda Church
Antietam - Cold Harbor
Fredericksburg - Petersburg
Blue Springs - Weldon Rail Road
Campbell's Station - Poplar Spring Church
Siege of Knoxville - Boydton Plank Road
Wilderness - Assault on Petersburg
Dug Petersburg Mine
Commenced June 25 - Exploded June 30 1864
(Rear Inscription):
James Nagle
Organizer and first
Colonel of this regiment
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Received commission as
Brigadier General of Volunteers
on the battlefield of Antietam
September 17, 1862
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Captain
Company B 1st Penna. Regiment
War with Mexico
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Colonel
6th, 48th, 39th, 149th Regiments
Penna. Volunteers
War of the Rebellion
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Born April 5th 1822
Died April 22d 1866
Marker is on Branch Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
