Enlisted Men of the 11th US Infantry

  • Sgt. Maj. George W. H. Stouch was appointed as the 1st Battalion sergeant major 1 May 1863 and served as such until wounded at Gettysburg on 2 July. He was commissioned in the 3rd Infantry on 18 May 1864

  • Sgt. Joseph Hale served as the first sergeant of B Company from March 1863 to May 1864. He was commissioned in the 3rd Infantry on 18 May 1864.

  • Sgt. John N. Coe was assigned consecutively as the first sergeant of H Company, and as the commissary then quartermaster sergeant of the 1st Battalion. He was commissioned in the 11th U.S. Infantry in March 1865

  • Sgt. John C. White enlisted in the 11th U.S. Infantry with the intent of earning a commission. He served as a sergeant in B Company, and briefly as 1st Sgt. of the company and 1st Battalion sergeant major before being commissioned in the 10th Infantry in June 1864.

  • Major George Stouch and his family returned to Gettysburg on 2 July 1886 to see the location where he had been wounded and temporarily captured.

  • Singapore-born Corp. William B. Hillcoat enlisted in F Company at Detroit, MI. in 1862. He was wounded at Gettysburg and later enlisted in the Canadian Army after the war (hence the Canadian uniform).

  • 1st Sgt. Milton Powers enlisted in D Company at Pittsfield, MA, in October 1861 and rose to be 1st Sgt. of E Company during 1863-64. He was wounded at the Wilderness.

  • This unknown, but strapping young NCO was a sergeant in the 11th U.S. Infantry.

  • Private Adelbert Knight, Lincolnville, ME, served with F Company in every battle from Fredericksburg to Cold Harbor where he was captured in June 1864. He spent the rest of the war in Andersonville and 3 other Confederate POW camps.

  • Private Ira S. Pettit also served in F Company. He joined the Regiment in the field in January 1863 at Potomac Creek. Like Adelbert Knight, he was captured at Bethesda Church on 2 June 1864. Unlike Knight, Pettit died at Andersonville.

  • Pvt. William Macomber, 11th U.S. Infantry

  • 1st Sgt. Richard H. Parson (shown here as a private) served in A Company and later as first sergeant of C Company.