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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.
• 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.