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1st Pennsylvania Regiment
Recruited in Northampton county, Dauphin county, Lancaster county, Berks county, PA
1st PA Regiment Soldier Biographies
Companies
- Field and Staff Officers
- Company A
Bethlehem, Northampton County - Company B
Easton, Northampton County - Company C
Easton, Northampton County - Company D
Easton, Northampton County - Company E
Harrisburg, Dauphin County - Company F
Lancaster, Lancaster County - Company G
Reading, Berks County - Company H
Easton, Northampton County - Company I
Allentown, Lehigh County - Company K
Lancaster, Lancaster County - Regimental Band
- Regimental History
Books
- Historical sketch of Reading artillerists :
Read upon the occasion of their 102nd anniversary in Metropolitan Hall, May 25, 1896 Online at Ancestry.com.
Organization, Service & Battles
- Organized at Harrisburg April 20, 1861.
Service & Battles - 1861
- Moved to Cockeysville on Northern Central Railroad April 20;
- Thence to Camp Scott, near York, Pa., and duty there till May 14.
- Guard Northern Central Railroad, near Baltimore, May 14-25,
- And Harper's Ferry Road May 25-June 3.
- Moved to Catonsville, Md., May 25; to Franklintown May 29,
- And to Chambersburg, Pa., June 3.
- Expedition to Rockville, Md., June 10-July 7.
- Attached to Wyocoop's 2nd Brigade, Keim's 2nd Division, Patterson's Army.
- Duty at Hagerstown and Funkstown, Goose Creek, Edward's Ferry, June 18.
- At Frederick June 22, and at Martinsburg, Va., July 8-21.
- Moved to Harper's Ferry July 21.
- Mustered out July 27, 1861.