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25th Pennsylvania Regiment

Three Years' Service - Recruited in Berks county, Schuylkill county, Mifflin county, Dauphin county, Lehigh county, Bucks county, Luzerne county, PA

25th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

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25th PA Regiment Companies

Field and Staff Officers

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Company A
Reading, Berks County
Company B
Schuylkill and Berks Counties
Company C
Schuylkill and Berks Counties
Company D
Pottsville, Schuylkill County
Company E
Lewistown, Mifflin County
Company F
Harrisburg, Dauphin County
Dompany G
Allentown, Lehigh County
Company H
Pottsvill, Schuylkill County
Company I
Doylestown, Bucks County
Company K
Carbondale, Luzerne County
Regimental History

25th PA Regiment Books

25th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

Organized by consolidation of First Defenders (5 Cos. and 5 new Cos.).
Organized at Harrisburg, Pa., April 18, 1861.
Moved to Washington, D.C. (see First Defenders), rest of Regiment camp near Arsenal till June 28.
(Cos. "B," "E" and "H" Garrison Fort Washington till mustered out,
And Cos. "A," "C" at Washington Arsenal till mustered out.)
Companies "D," "F," "G," "I" and "K" march to Rockville, Md., to Join Stone, June 29-30.
Reported at Poolesville July 1, and moved to Sandy Hook, opposite Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
Attached to Stone's 7th Brigade, Sanford's 3rd Division, Patterson's Army.
Service & Battles - 1861
March to Martinsburg July 6-8.
Advance to Bunker Hill July 15.
Camp at Harper's Ferry July 17-23.
Mustered out August 1, 1861.

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