PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

207th Pennsylvania Regiment

207th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• David Crider

207th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

207th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg September 8, 1864.
• Left State for City Point, Va., September 12.
• Attached to Provisional Brigade, Army of the James, to October, 1864.
• Provisional Brigade, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, to May, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1864 - 1865

• Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., September, 1864, to April, 1865.
• Picketing Bermuda Hundred front from the James to the Appomattox.
• Joined Army of the Potomac November.
• Movement in support of Weldon Railroad Expedition December 7-11.
• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Fort Stedman March 25.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Pursuit of Lee to Burkesville April 3-9.
• Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria April 21-28, and duty there till May 31.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Mustered out May 31, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 51 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 24 Enlisted men by disease. Total 79.

207th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• ILGENFRITZ, CHARLES H. Sergeant, Company E, 207th Pennsylvania Infantry. Fort Sedgwick, Va., 2 April 1865. Citation: Unknown. The color bearer falling, pierced by 7 balls, he immediately sprang forward and grasped the colors, planting them upon the enemy's forts amid a murderous fire of grape, canister, and musketry from the enemy.