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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

130th Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in York county, Cumberland County, Dauphin County, and Chester County, PA

130th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

130th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

Indiana Democrat - July 17, 1862
Pennsylvania Colonels Killed in the War...

130th PA Regiment Companies

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

12th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862.
Moved to Washington, D.C., August 18, and duty there until September 7.
March to Rockville, Md., September 7-12.
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Service & Battles - 1862
Maryland Campaign. Battle of Antietam September 16-17.
Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 22, and duty there until October 30.
Advance up Loudon Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.
Service & Battles - 1863
Duty at Falmouth until April, 1863.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
Mustered out May 21, 1863.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 56 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 32 Enlisted men by disease. Total 92.

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