History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.

254 ELEVENTH REGIMENT. 1862
men killed, four officers and eighty-five men wounded, and two men taken prisoners. Adjutant Uncapher also had his horse killed under him.
Moving towards the Potomac, the rebel army having re-crossed, the brigade
was reviewed on the 3d of October, by President Lincoln, accompalied by Generals M'CIellan and Reynolds. On the 11th, three regiments of the brigade,
the Eleventh Pennsylvania, and Twelfth and Thirteenth Massachusetts, were
detailed under Colonel Coulter, for picket duty on roads leading to Hagerstown
and Sharpsburg, on the occasion of Stuart's raid through Maryland to Chambersburg, around the rear of the army. On the 20th, and again on the 29th of
October, clothing and shelter tents were issued, comprising a complete outfit,
of which the regiment was in great need. On the 26th, an order was received
for the division to leave its baggage in camp under guard, and to march at
once into Virginia. Moving through Crampton's Pass, and crossing the Potomac on a pontoon bridge at a point nearly opposite Berlin, the division passed
through Lovettsvile, Bloomfield, and Salem, to the neighborhood of Warrenton.
On the 8th of November, General M'Clellan was relieved, and General Burnside was ordered to assume command of the army of the Potomac. Three days
previous, General Gibbon assumed command of the division in place of General Ricketts, and on the 7th of October, Brigadier General Nelson Taylor was
assigned to the command of the brigade, relieving Colonel Coulter. Soon afterwards the brigades of the division were re-organized, the Third* receiving and
parting with two regiments.
At midnight of the 7th of November, after a hard march in a heavy snow
storm, orders were received to prepare two days' rations, and be ready to move
at a moment's notice to support General Bayard upon the Rappahannock.
The brigade moved on the following afternoon, and took position near the railroad bridge in support of the cavalry, the enemy's forces being on the opposite
side of the river, and his pickets in sight. It remained on duty, occasionally
skirmishing with the enemy, until the 18th, when the whole command was relieved by General Pleasanton, and the bridge across the Rappahannock was
burned. The cavalry took the river roads, and the infantry that by Bealton's
Station, and marched to Acquia landing, where the Eleventh was detailed for
fatigue duty at the wharf. Here the regiment received pay, clothing, camp
and garrison equipage, and, in pursuance of recent general orders requiring
officers to be mustered in for every new grade filled, those of the Eleventh to
whom it applied were mustered.
On the 10th of December, taking three days' cooked rations, and sixty-six
rounds of ammunition, the regiment marched in the direction of Fredericksburg, where preparations were in progress for a general engagement, and bivouacked on the night of the 11th, near the river. Heavy cannonading had
been kept up during the entire day, Fredericksburg being bombarded and at
times on fire. Crossing the Rappahannock on a pontoon bridge two miles below Fredericksburg, on the morning of the 12th, the division gained a position
at two P. M., about two hundred and fifty yards from the Bowling Green road,
where it lay in line, under arms, during the night. On the following morning,
* Organization of Third Brigade, General Taylor. Eighty-third Regiment New York Volunteers, (Ninth Militia,) Colonel Stiles; ThirteenthRegiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel
Leonard; Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Coulter; Ninety-seventh
Regiment New York Volunteers, Colonel Wheelock; Eighty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Wagner.