James Flanley enlisted as a Sergeant in Company D at the start of the regiment in August 23, 1861. He had experience with the Irish Militia in Philadelphia. On Dececember 12 he was demoted to a Private. He served on the Pennisuula and fought at Savage Station and Glendale. By September 1862 he was seriously ill and was sent to a military hospital in York Pennsylvania where he would remain until April 1864, missing Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. He reported back to the regiment and fought with Company D at Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna River and Cold Harbor. Then at the Battle of Ream's Station he was taken prisoner but paroled a month later by the Confederates. He was shipped to Philadelphia to be mustered out at the expiration of his three year term.
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