PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers
127th Pennsylvania Regiment - Dauphin County RegimentNine Months' Service - Recruited in Dauphin County, also Adams County, Lebanon County, Schuylkill County, PA
127th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies
127th PA Regiment Companies
127th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles
Organization
- Organized at Harrisburg August 16, 1862.
- Moved to Washington, D.C., August 17.
- (Co. "A" detached at Harrisburg, Pa., on provost duty entire term.)
Service & Battles - 1862
- Duty in the Defences of Washington till December.
- Attached to Jennings' Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, Defences of Washington, to December, 1862.
- March to Falmouth, Va., December 1-9.
- Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
- Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.
Service & Battles - 1863
- Duty at Falmouth till April.
- Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
- Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
- Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
- Salem Heights May 3-4.
- Banks' Ford May 4.
- Mustered out May 29, 1863.
Regimental Losses
- Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 15 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 16 Enlisted men by disease.
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