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197th Regiment - Coal Exchange Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in the city of Philadelphia, PA

197th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Rosters

197th PA Regiment Books

• Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison
  Mr. McAdams follows the story of the Federal Prison at Rock Island, Illinois along the banks of the Mississippi River and the regiment who guarded the prisoners.

197th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia for 100 days July 22, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Moved to Baltimore, Md., and duty at Camp Bradford, Mankin's Woods, till August, 1864.
• Guard prisoners at Rock Island, Ill., till November.
• Mustered out November 11, 1864.

  Regimental Loss

• Lost 6 by disease.