JESSE FULMER
Pvt., 11th Penn. Infantry
Capt., 15th US Infantry
Brevet Major, Battle of Stones River.
Enlisted on 4/24/1861 as a Private.
On 4/24/1861 he mustered into “A” Co. PA 11th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 7/31/1861 at Harrisburg, PA
The 11th PA was a three month unit involved with defense of Washington in the first days of the war. DETACHED companies, formed of men hastily summoned from farm and workshop, rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, and were organized into the Eleventh regiment, April 26th, 1861.
On the 26th of July, the following order was received:
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Harper’s Ferry, Va.,
July 24, 1861. (Special order No. 127.) 1. The Eleventh regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, Colonel Jarrett come mending, will, to-day, take rail transportation from this place to Baltimore, enroute for Harrisburg, where they will be mustered out of service.
It gives the Commanding General great satisfaction to say, that the conduct of the regiment has merited his highest approbation. It had the fortune to be in the advance at the affair at Hoke’s Run, (Falling Waters,) where the steadiness and gallantry of both officers and men, came under his personal observation. They have well merited his thanks.
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
The 15th US were hard-fighting Federals of the Western Theater: Nashville, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Resaca, Kennesaw, etc.
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January 30, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Mark Johnson
Captain Fulmer’s regiment, the 15th U.S. Infantry, figures prominently in my book “That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West,” which was published in 2003 from Da Capo Press.