Monument Text: 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 1st Brigade 2nd Division 9th Corps Location 385 yards South 70 degrees East Casualties at Antietam Killed 8 Wounded 51 Missing 1 Total 60
Organized August September 1861 Mustered out July 17th, 1865 Recruited in Schuylkill County
Battles participated in: Newbern Second Bull Run Chantilly South Mountain Antietam Fredericksburg Blue Springs Campbell's Station Siege of Knoxville Wilderness Spotsylvania North Anna Totopotomay Bethesda Church Cold Harbor Petersburg Weldon Railroad Poplar Spring Church Boydton Plank Road Assault on Petersburg Dug Petersburg Mine Commenced June 25 Exploded July 30, 1864
James Nagle Organizer and First Colonel of this Regiment
Received Commission as Brigadier General of Volunteers on the Battlefield of Antietam September 17, 1862 Captain Company "B", 1st Penn's. Regiment War with Mexico Colonel 6th, 48th, 39th, 149th Regiments Penn'a. Volunteers War of the Rebellion Born april 5th, 1822 Died April 22d, 1866
