COL BMG Coulter, Richard Sr.

Richard Coulter Sr.

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Born: October 1, 1827

Birthplace: Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Father: Eli Coulter Jr. 1791 – 1830
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​

Mother: Rebecca Alexander 1788 – 1854
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​

Wife: Emma Welty 1841 – 1929
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​

Children:

Brig. General Richard Coulter Jr. 1870 – 1955​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​
Rebecca Coulter Barclay 1872 – 1937​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​
Lt. Colonel Henry Welty Coulter 1873 – 1932​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​
Alexander Coulter 1875 – 1916​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​
William Alexander Coulter 1878 – 1955​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​
Margaret Coulter 1883 – 1967​
(Buried: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania)​

Education:

Attended Jefferson College​

Occupation before War:

Worked in his Uncle’s law Office in Greensburg, Pennsylvania​
Served in the Mexican – American War in Westmoreland Guards​
1848 – 1861: Attorney in Greensburg, Pennsylvania​

Civil War Career:

1861: Organizer of Company in Pennsylvania and Served as Captain​
1861: Lt. Colonel of 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment​
1861: Elected Colonel at reorganization of his regiment on Nov. 27th​
1861 – 1865: Colonel of 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment​
1862: Regimental Commander at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia​
1862: Regimental Commander at the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia​
1862: Regimental Commander at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia​
1862: Acted as Brigade Commander at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland​
1862: Regimental Commander at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia​
1862: Wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia​
1863: Regimental Commander at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia​
1863: Led 296 men into the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania​
1863: Acting Brigade Commander at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania​
1863: Wounded on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania​
1864: Brigade Commander during the Overland Campaign in, Virginia​
1864: Acting Division Commander at the Battle of Spotsylvania, Virginia​
1864: Wounded on April 18th and incapacitated for several Months​
1864: Briefly Brigade Commander at Battle of Globe Tavern, Virginia​
1865: Brevetted Brigadier General for His Service in the War​
1865: Brigade Commander in the Appomattox Campaign in Virginia​
1865: Mustered out of the Union Army on July 1st at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania​
1866: Confirmed as Brevet Major General by the United States Senate​

Occupation after War:

Businessman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania​
Investor of Industries, Businesses, and residential areas​
President of First Commonwealth Bank of Greensburg, Pennsylvania​
Investor and Leader in Steel Industry in Pennsylvania​

Died:
October 14, 1908

Place of Death: Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Age at time of Death:
81 years old

Burial Place: Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
 
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His regiment , the 11th Pennsylvania, was known as the "Bloody Eleventh" after the battle of Falling Waters on July 2, 1861. The original regiment was a 3 year unit and it's time expired in January 1864. Coulter influenced many members to reenlist.The mascot of the unit was a brindle bull terrier named Sallie Ann Jarrett.This most devoted member of the unit was killed at Hatcher's Run.There is a bronze likeness of her at Gettysburg.
 
Coulter attended Dickinson College (in Carlisle) before entering Jefferson College (in Canonsburg) as a Junior in 1843. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1845. (In those days, one might be awarded an honorary master's degree for independent post-graduate studies, thus Coulter was conferred a Master of Arts degree in 1849 from Jefferson College, presumably because of his law studies.)

Sources:
-The Annual of Washington and Jefferson College for 1883 (Philadelphia, A. T. Zeising & Co., Printers, 1884), p. 98.
-Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College 1802-1889 (Cincinnati, Ohio: Elm Street Printing Company, 1889), p. 127.
 
His regiment , the 11th Pennsylvania, was known as the "Bloody Eleventh" after the battle of Falling Waters on July 2, 1861. The original regiment was a 3 year unit and it's time expired in January 1864. Coulter influenced many members to reenlist.The mascot of the unit was a brindle bull terrier named Sallie Ann Jarrett.This most devoted member of the unit was killed at Hatcher's Run.There is a bronze likeness of her at Gettysburg.
Here is Colonel Coulter's memoir about Sallie.
 
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