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198th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in the city of Philadelphia, PA.

198th PA Regiment Companies

198th PA Regiment Books

History Of The One Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers
Online Transcription of the complete record of the regiment, with its camps, marches and battles, together with the personal record of every officer and man during his term of service

198th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Philadelphia September 9, 1864.
Left State for Petersburg, Va., September 19, 1864.
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps.
Service & Battles - 1864
Siege of Petersburg September, 1864, to April, 1865.
Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2, 1864.
Reconnoissance to Boydton Road October 8.
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
Warren's Raid to Weldon Railroad December 7-12.
Service & Battles - 1865
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
Junction, Quaker and Boydton Roads March 29.
Lewis Farm near Gravelly Run March 29.
White Oak Road March 30-31.
Five Forks April 1.
Appomattox Court House April 9.
Surrender of Lee and his army.
March to Washington, D.C., May 1-12.
Grand Review May 23.
Mustered out June 4, 1865.
Regimental Losses
Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 67 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 44 Enlisted men by disease. Total 117.

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PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

198th Pennsylvania Regiment

198th PA Regiment Companies

198th PA Regiment Books

198th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Service & Battles - 1864

Service & Battles - 1865

Regimental Losses