PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

211th Pennsylvania Regiment

211th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Moses Fry

211th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg September 16, 1864.
• Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., September and attached to Provisional Brigade,
• Defences of Bermuda Hundred, Army James, to November, 1864.
• Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to December, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1864 - 1865

• Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., September, 1864, to April, 1865.
• Duty in the Defences of Bermuda Hundred, Va., till November, 1864.
• Joined Army of the Potomac before Petersburg November 28.
• Movement in support of Weldon Railroad Expedition December 7-11.
• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Fort Stedman March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.
• At Nottaway Court House till April 20.
• Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria April 20-28, and duty there till June.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Mustered out June 2, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 38 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 53 Enlisted men by disease Total 97.

211th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• EWING, JOHN C.: Private, Company E, 211th Pennsylvania Infantry. Petersburg, Va., 2 April 1865. Citation: 20 May 1865. Capture of flag. Born March 4, 1843, died May 23, 1918, buried Ligonier Valley Cemetery, Ligonier, Westmoreland County, PA.
  
  
• HARMON, AMZI D.: Corporal, Company K, 211th Pennsylvania Infantry. Petersburg, Va., 2 April 1865. Citation: 20 May 1865. Capture of flag.