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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

• Benjamin Franklin Benchoff
• James Elder
• Benjamin Goodyear
• George Miles
• Jacob Pesinger
• C. L. Walter
• George Welsh
• Philip Welsh

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 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.