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137th Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Schuylkill County, Wayne County, Crawford County, Clinton County, Butler County, Bradford county, PA

137th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

137th PA Regiment Companies

Company K
Schuylkill /Wayne Counties
Unassigned Men
Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

137th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Harrisburg August 25, 1862, and ordered to Washington, D.C.
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1862.
Provisional Brigade, Aquia Creek, Va., Patrick's Command, Army of the Potomac, to January, 1863.
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.
Service & Battles - 1862
Maryland Campaign September, 1862.
Sugar Loaf Mountain September 10-11.
Crampton's Gap September 14.
Antietam September 17. Monument
Duty in Maryland to November.
In Defences of Washington, D. C, till December,
And at Aquia Creek, Va., till January, 1863.
Service & Battles - 1863
Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
Duty at Belle Plains till April.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2.
Chancellorsville May 2-5.
Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa. Mustered out June 1, 1863.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 58 Enlisted men by disease. Total 59.

137th PA Regiment Burials

Price, John; born Feb 4, 1819, died Dec 14, 1894, buried Mud River Baptist Church Cemetery, Ona, WV

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