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128th Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Berks County, Bucks County, and Lehigh County, PA

128th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

James Magill

128th PA Regiment Companies

Field and Staff Officers
Company A
Berks County
Company B
Berks County
Company E
Berks County
Company H
Berks County
Company I
Berks County
Company K
Berks County
Regimental History

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

128th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862.
Service & Battles - 1862
Left State for Washington, D.C., August 16, and duty there till September 6.
Moved to Frederick, Md., September 6-14.
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17. Monument
At Sandy Hook and Maryland Heights September 22 to December 10.
Moved to Fairfax Station, Va., December 10-14.
Service & Battles - 1863
Duty there till January 19, 1863.
Moved to Stafford Court House January 19-23,
And duty there till April 27.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
Mustered out May 19, 1863.
Lost 2 Officers and 31 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 26 Enlisted men by disease. Total 59.

128th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

GRESSER, IGNATZ Corporal, Company D, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at: Lehigh County, Pa. Born: 15 August 1832, Germany. Citation: At Antietam, Md., 17 September 1862. While exposed to the fire of the enemy, carried from the field a wounded comrade. Date of Issue: 12 December 1895.

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