Brief description
The 91st participated in the final futile charge on Marye's Heights. After it failed, the 91st helped cover the Union retreat across the river. By mistake, Company E (under Captain Lentz) was left behind, and barely made it across before the Confederates captured them.
Longer summary
See the calendar for 11 to 16 December 1862.Soldiers taken prisoner
(based on company E descriptive list)- David Baird (E)
- James Clayton (E)
- William Dougherty (E)
- William Gorman (E)
- Joseph Griffith (E)
- George Keever (E)
- John Keever (E)
- James McFarland (E)
- Joseph Rementer (E)
- Samuel Stewart (E)
- Robert Wooden (E)
Wounded
Wounded include:
- John W Bender
- Robert McFeeters
- Charles Loper (G), wounded by a piece of shell in the left shoulder
- John Callahan (I), slightly wounded in right side by shell
Sources
- the 91st's place in the Army of the Potomac's organization then
- company E report
- regimental report
- brigade report
- division report
- corps report
- casualties
- 'The battle of Fredericksburg Va: list of killed and wounded', Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 December 1862, page 3
- William C Reiff. 'A boy hero: a young drummer made of the right kind of stuff'. National tribune 3 August 1905, page 3, columns 1-2
- anonymous letter, 'From the Ninety-First Penna Regiment', Philadelphia Inquirer 9 March 1863 page 2
- letter, James Allen Todd to his mother, 19 December 1862
- 'Fidelity of a dog on the battlefield'. Saturday Evening Post 27 December 1862
- [relevant quotations from] Franklin County Soldiers' Monumental Association. A Sketch of the 126th regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Chambersburg PA, 1869.
- [court martials of James C Bonsall and David Baker]
- 'From the 129th Penna Reg't' [mentions 91st], Philadelphia Inquirer 18 December 1862, page 2
- 'Arrival of sick and wounded soldiers' (Philadelphia Inquirer 7 January 1863 page 6)
- 'Compliments to Col E M Gregory' (Philadelphia Press Saturday 14 February 1863, page 2)