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132nd Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Montour County, Wyoming County, Bradford County, Columbia County, Carbon County, Luzerne County, PA

132nd PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

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

132nd PA Regiment Companies

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

132nd PA Regiment Books

War from the Inside: The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry in the War for the Supression of the Rebellion (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

132nd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862.
Moved to Washington, D.C., August 19, and duty there till September 2.
Ordered to Rockville, Md., September 2.
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November, 1862.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to May, 1863.
Service & Battles - 1862
Maryland Campaign September 6-22, 1862.
Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17.
Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 22, and duty there till October 30.
Reconnoissance to Leesburg October 1-2.
Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 17.
Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.
Service & Battles - 1863
Duty at Falmouth till April 27.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
Mustered out May 24, 1863.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 70 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 40 Enlisted men by disease. Total 113.

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