PENNSYLVANIA
11TH INFANTRY
(Three Month)

. . . . On the 3rd of July, the Brigade resumed the march and
proceeded to Martinsburg, where it went into camp. On the
following day the Eleventh, with the First Wisconsin, was
detached to escort a wagon train from Williamsport to
Martinsburg. The sick and wounded who were able to be moved,
had been sent to Hagerstown. While preparations were being
made at Williamsport for the movement of the train, Colonels
Starkweather and Jarrett visited Hagerstown, where they found
that the court house had been converted into hospital, in
which the sick and wounded were comfortably quartered, and
that they were receiving the kind attention of the patriotic
ladies of the place. The train, of eight hundred wagons, was
safely brought in, though the enemy's cavalry was watchful,
and ready to make havoc if opportunity offered.

While stationed at Martinsburg, a stand of National
colors was presented by the Union ladies of the place, at the
hands of Miss Miller. The regiment, prior to this, had
carried no colors. This flag was subsequently borne in the
three years, service, in the battles of Cedar Mountain, the
operations on Rappahannock river, and at Thoroughfare Gap. In the second battle of Bull Run, where the command was warmly engaged, the color-bearer, William Feightner, was severely wounded, and, with the flag, fell into the hands of the enemy. . .

. . . . By order of Major General Patterson. F. J. PORTER,
Assistant Adjutant General. On the 19th of July, prior to the
muster out of the regiment, the necessary measures were taken,
with the approval of the Commander of the Department, to have
it re-mustered for three years, service, and on the 25th, it
was, by an order of the Secretary of War, accepted. It was
permitted, by a general order of the Governor of Pennsylvania,
to retain its original number. Hence, the Eleventh became the
first regiment for three years, service.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 1

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Pennsylvania
ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
(Three years)

2nd Manassas . . . . Several color-bearers were shot down, but the State flag was saved. Sergeant Fightner, bearing the flag presented to the regiment while in the three months' service by the Union ladies of Martinsburg, was wounded and fell with that flag into the hands of the enemy. The struggle was short, the regiment being but about, an hour under fire, but the losses it sustained attest the terrible ordeal to which it was subjected, and the nature of the onset by which it was overpowered. . . .

. . . . ACCOUNT OF THE STATE FLAG--The State Flag was presented to
the regiment by Governor Curtin, November 20th, 1861, and placed
in the hands of Sergeant Charles H. Foulke, of Company A, who
carried it until August 11th, 1862, at Cedar Mountain, where he
was accidentally wounded in the foot, when it was delivered to
Sergeant Robert H. Knox, of Company C, who carried it August
21st to 24th, at Rappahannock station, August 28th, at
Thoroughfare Gap, and August 30th, at Bull Run, where he was
severely wounded, losing his right leg, the flag passing on the
field, into the hands of First Sergeant Samuel S. Bierer,
Company C, who was immediately wounded; it was then taken by
Second Lieutenant Absalom Schall, Company C who was severely
wounded, when it was again taken by Sergeant Samuel S. Bierer,
Company C, who carried it to Centreville. Daniel Mathews
carried it September 1st, at Chantilly, September 14th, at South
Mountain, September 16th and 17th, at Antietam, where he was
severely wounded, and it was taken by Private William Welty, of
Company C, who was almost immediately killed; it then passed
into the hands of Corporal Frederick Welty, of Company C, who
was soon severely wounded, and obliged to leave it on the field,
where it remained some time, all of the men near it having been
killed or wounded. It was next carried by Second Lieutenant
Edward H. Gay, of Company E, who received two gun-shot wounds,
and passed the flag to Sergeant Henry Bitner, of Company E, who
retained it until the close of the action. December 12th, and
13th, 1862, at the battle of Fredericksburg, it was carried by
Corporal John V. Kuhns, of Company C, until he was three times
severely wounded, losing his left leg. It was then borne by
Cyrus W. Chambers, of Company C, who was killed, when it was
taken by Corporal John W. Thomas, of Company C, who was also
severely wounded. It was brought off the field by Captain
Benjamin F. Haines, of Company B. Corporal John H. M'Kalip, of
Company C, was next made color bearer, who carried it April
30th, to May 5th, 1863, at Chancellorsville, and July 1st, at
Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded in a charge upon
Iverson's North Carolina Brigade, the flag falling amongst some
bushes where it was afterwards discovered by Private Michael
Kepler, of Company D, who carried it during the remainder of the
engagements July 1st, 2d and 3d, and also at Mine Run, December
1st, 1863; in April, 1864, he being absent, sick, it was
delivered to Corporal J. J. Lehman, of Company D, who carried it
May 5th and 6th in the Wilderness, and May 8th at Spottsylvania,
where he was killed, and the flag was brought off the field by
Second Lieutenant M'Cutchen of Company F. The next colorbearer,
whose name has not been ascertained, was severely wounded in the
foot, May 12th, at Spottsylvania. Corporal Wm. Mathews, of
Company C, carried it during the remainder of the engagement at
Spottsylvania, and at North Anna, Cold Harbor, Bethesda Church,
in front of Petersburg, Weldon railroad, and until December 3d,
1864, when he was relieved by Sergeant Albert Carter, of Company
A, who bore it in the Hickford raid, December, 1864; February
6th and 7th, 1865, at Hatcher's Run and Dabney's Mills; March
28th, Quaker Road; March 30th, White Oak Ridge; April 1st, Five
Forks; April 9th, Appomattox Court House and until May 28th,
1865, when he was honorably discharged. John C. Scheurman, of
Company A, then carried it until the regiment was mustered out
of service. July 7th, 1865, it was delivered to the State
authorities at Harrisburg, and July 4th, 1866, it was formally
returned to the Governor, at Philadelphia, upon the occasion of
the public return of all the State flags. . .

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