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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

123rd Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Allegheny County, PA

123rd PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

123rd PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

Indiana Democrat - July 17, 1862
Pennsylvania Colonels Killed in the War...

123rd PA Regiment Companies

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

123rd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Allegheny City August, 1862.
Moved to Harrisburg, Pa., thence to Washington, D.C., August 20-23, 1862.
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.
Service & Battles - 1862
Maryland Campaign September 6-24, 1862.
Duty at Sharpsburg, Md., till October 30.
Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.
Service & Battles - 1863
Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
Duty at Falmouth till April 27.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
Mustered out May 13, 1863.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 27 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 41 Enlisted men by disease. Total 72.

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