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127th Pennsylvania Regiment - Dauphin County Regiment

Nine 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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