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21st Pennsylvania Regiment - German Rifle Regiment

A Three Months' Regiment recruited in Allegheny County, Schuykill County, Huntingdon County, Lebanon County, Berks County, PA

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Philadelphia in the Civil War
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21st PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, April 20, 1861.
Service & Battles - 1861
Moved to Philadelphia April 22, then to Perryville and Annapolis, Md., April 23, and to Washington, D.C., April 27.
At Alexandria, Va., May 28.
Moved to Shutter's Hill June 3.
Attached to McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia. Duty at Alexandria till muster out. Mustered out July 25, 1861.
Regimental Losses
None.

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