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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




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.
  • 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