Civil War Forty-Fifth Regiment PENNSYLVANIA Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-65

Description: History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865. Albert, Allen (ed). Published by Williamsport: Grit, 1912., 1912 530p. Photos. Front cover decorated. Following service in South Carolina, they fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Heavy. Hinges intact. Lettering bright. Fine Copy. History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment ... Publisher: Williamsport: Grit, 1912. Publication Date: 1912 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Fine Edition: 1st. 530 pages, portrait and illustration plates. Original blue cloth with gilt titled cover and spine; gilt regimental shield on front cover. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to edges and corners, light surface scuffs to front and back cover, gilt bright. Interior endpaper with penciled name of former owner? Please see picture. Pages are clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The history of the regiment is covered in pages 13-187. Following are Company Sketches and Personal, Reminiscences pages 193-422; the unit roster, pages 423-524; and finally biographical sketches of some of the unit officers, pages 524-530. The regiment fought in numerous battles as part of the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Ohio, and the Army of the Tennessee. It is recognized as one of the FOX 300 Fighting Regiments. REFERENCES: DORN PA 161 Chapters are signed by their authors. Unit roster (421)-524 ; NEVINS I page 144: A brief narrative, company sketches, and a series of personal recollections form a disorganized summary of the unit s Western service. FOX Regimental Losses page 265: (The 45th Pennsylvania Infantry) returned to Virginia (from South Carolina) in August, 1862, having been assigned to Willcox's (1st) Division, Ninth Corps; Colonel Welsh was placed in command of the brigade. At South Mountain the Forty-fifth drove the Confederates from a strong position, but their gallantry cost them a loss of 27 killed and 107 wounded. In the spring of 1863, the Ninth Corps was transferred to the Western Army ; it subsequently took part in the operations about Vicksburg, and then in the fighting with Longstreet's Corps at the Siege of Knoxville, Tenn….The Ninth Corps having returned to Virginia in 1864, the regiment participated in Grant's campaigns and was hotly engaged at the Wilderness, where it lost 1 7 killed, 1 19 wounded, and 7 missing; and at Cold Harbor, where 181, or over half the regiment were killed or wounded, Major Kelsey being among the killed. The Forty-fifth took part in all the hard fighting at Petersburg, Colonel Curtin falling severely wounded in the assault of June 18. In the fighting at the crater of the exploded Mine, it captured the flag of the Sixth Virginia.The extra shipping cost is for the insurance.

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