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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

158th Pennsylvania Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Cumberland county, Franklin county, and Fulton County, PA

158th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

158th PA Regiment Companies

Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

158th PA Regiment Books

Letters to Lanah: A series of Civil War letters
Written by Samuel Ensminger (Company K)

158th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Chambersburg November 1, 1862, and ordered to Suffolk, Va.
Attached to Spinola's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to December, 1862.
1st Brigade, 5th Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to May, 1863.
District of the Pamlico, Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1863.
Spinola's Brigade, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863.
Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to August, 1863.
Service & Battles - 1862
Duty at Suffolk, Va., till December 28, 1862.
Service & Battles - 1863
Moved to New Berne, N. C., December 28-January 1, 1863, and duty there till June, 1863.
Expedition from New Berne to Trenton, Pollocksville, Young's Cross Roads and Swansborough March 6-10.
Expedition to relief of Little Washington, N. C, April 7-10.
Blount's Creek April 9.
Expedition to Swift Creek
Village April 13-21.
Big Swift Creek April 19.
Ordered to Fortress Monroe, Va., June.
Dix's Peninsula Campaign July 1-7.
Moved to Harper's Ferry July 7-9, thence moved to Boonsboro, Md., and reported to Gen. Meade July 11.
Pursuit of Lee July 11-24.
Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa., August 3.
Mustered out August 12, 1863.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 45 by disease.

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