PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

148th Pennsylvania Regiment - Centre County Regiment

148th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• James Addams Beaver

148th PA Regiment Companies

• Battle Flag



• Company A
  Brush Valley, Indiana County
• Company B
  Milesburg, Centre County
• Company C
  Centre County
• Company D
  Aaronsburg and Pine Grove, Centre County
• Company E
  Jefferson, Indiana, Armstrong Counties
• Company F
  Centre County
• Company G
  Centre County
• Company H
  Centre County
• Company I
  Jefferson County
• Company K
  Clarion and Montgomery Counties
• Drafted Men
  Drafted Men and Substitutes
• Regimental History

148th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, September 8, 1862.
• Moved to Cockeysville, Md., September 9-10, 1862, and guard duty on Northern Central Railroad until December 9, 1862.
• Unattached, Defenses of Baltimore, 8th Corps, Middle Department.
• Moved to Falmouth, Va., December 9-18, 1862.
• Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, to March, 1864.
• 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Duty at Falmouth, Va., until April 27, 1863.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 14-July 24.
• Skirmish at Haymarket June 25.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Wapping Heights, Va., July 23.
• Expedition to Port Conway August 31-September 4.
• Richardson's Ford September 1.
• Duty on Orange & Alexandria Railroad and the Rappahannock until October.
• Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• South side of the Rappahannock October 12.
• Auburn and Bristoe October 14.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Kelly's Ford November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• Morton's Ford February 6-7.
• Duty near Stevensburg until May.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12;
• Po River May 9-10; Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• Milford Station May 20.
• Reconnaissance by Regiment across North Anna River May 22.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.
• Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
• Jerusalem Plank Road June 21-23, 1864.
• Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom July 27-29.
• Deep Bottom July 27-28.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg. July 30 (Reserve).
• Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20.
• Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18.
• Ream's Station, Weldon Railroad, August 25.
• Assault on Davidson's Confederate Battery October 27.
• Front of Forts Morton and Sedgwick October 29.
• Reconnaissance to Hatcher's Run December 9-10.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Watkins' House March 25.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Gravelly Run March 29.
• Boydton Road or Hatcher's Run March 30-31.
• Crow's House, White Oak Road, March 31.
• Sutherland Station April 2.
• Sailor's Creek April 6.
• High Bridge, Farmville, April 7.
• Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• March to Washington, D. C., May 2-12.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Mustered out near Alexandria June 1, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 12 Officers and 198 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 183 Enlisted men by disease. Total 397.

148th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• AMMERMAN, ROBERT W. Private, Company B, 148th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at Centre County, Pa. Birth: Centre County, Pa. Citation: Capture of battle flag of 8th North Carolina (C.S.A.), being one of the foremost in the assault at Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864. Date of issue: 31 January 1865.
  
  
• BROWN, JEREMIAH Z. Captain, Company K, 148th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at: Rimmersburg, Pa. Birth: Clarion County, Pa. Citation: With 100 selected volunteers, assaulted and captured the works of the enemy, together with a number of officers and men at Petersburg, Va., 27 October 1864. Date of issue: 22 June 1896.
  
  
• HARRIS, GEORGE W. Private, Company B, 148th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at: Bellefonte, Pa. Birth: Schuylkill, Pa. Citation: Capture of flag, wresting it from the color bearer and shooting an officer who attempted to regain it at Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864. Date of issue: 1 December 1864.
  
  
• PHILLIPS, JOSIAH Private, Company E, 148th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at: Ulysses, Pa. Birth: Wyoming County, N.Y. Citation: Capture of flag at Sutherland Station, Va., 2 April 1865. Date of issue: 10 May 1865.