Abram Hull 148th Pennsylvania KIA Reams Station, VA. The ID Disc reads,”Abram Hull Center Co PA, Co. D 148th Reg PAV Caldwald’s Brigade. A portrait of McClellan is on the reverse.
The
148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Centre County
Regiment," was mustered in at Harrisburg on September 8, 1862, under
Colonel James Addams Beaver. Composed mainly of Centre County volunteers, with
additional companies from Clarion, Jefferson, and Indiana Counties, it served
in the Union Army’s II Corps, Army of the Potomac. Initially guarding the
Northern Central Railroad, it joined the First Brigade, First Division, in
December 1862. The regiment fought at Chancellorsville (May 1863), where Beaver
was wounded, and Gettysburg (July 1863), enduring heavy losses in the
Wheatfield under temporary commander Colonel Henry Boyd McKeen after Beaver’s
illness. It participated in the pursuit of Lee, Wapping Heights, and the Siege
of Petersburg, where Company K, armed with Spencer rifles, captured a fort on
October 27, 1864. Three soldiers earned Medals of Honor at Spotsylvania and
Petersburg. The regiment suffered 12 officers and 198 enlisted men killed or
mortally wounded.