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126th Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Franklin County, Juniata county, and Fulton County, PA.

126th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

126th PA Regiment Letters Home

Letter from Joseph Curwin, Private, Co. I,
Written in Jefferson Virginia, dated November 10, 1862 to his sister, Mary "This war business is rough! War! Rough! Rough!—much harder than anything I ever did."

126th PA Regiment Companies

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

126th PA Regiment Soldier Books

A Sketch of the 126th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Prepared by an Officer, and Sold for the Benefit of the Franklin County Soldiers' Monumental Association, 1869 (Online Transcription)

126th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862.
Left State for Washington, D.C., August 15, and duty there till September 12.
Moved to Sharpsburg, Md., and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Service & Battles - 1862
Duty at Sharpsburg, Md., till October 30, 1862.
Reconnoissance from Sharpsburg to Smithfield, W. Va., October 16-17.
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 20, 1865.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 30 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 34 Enlisted men by disease. Total 65.

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