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78th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in Indiana County, Armstrong County, Clarion County, Mifflin County, Indiana County, Cumberland County, Butler County, Allegheny County, Beaver County, Butler County, Huntingdon County, PA


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78th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

    Organization
  • Organized at Pittsburg October 15, 1861.
  • Left State for Louisville, Ky., October 18,
  • Thence moved to Nolin Station, Ky., October 24, and duty there till December.
  • Attached to Negley's 4th Brigade, McCook's Division, at Nolin, to November, 1861.
  • 7th Brigade, Army Ohio, to December, 1861.
  • 7th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army Ohio, to March, 1862.
  • Negley's Independent Brigade, Army Ohio, to August, 1862.
  • 7th Brigade, 8th Division, Army Ohio, to November, 1862.
  • 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Centre Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.
  • 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to October, 1863.
  • 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864.
  • Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864.
  • Garrison Nashville, Tenn., to September, 1865.
    Service & Battles - 1862
  • At Munfordsville, Ky., December, 1861, to February, 1862.
  • March to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 3.
  • Guard railroad from Nashville to Columbia till May, and at Decatur May.
  • Expedition to Rodgersville May 13-14.
  • Negley's Expedition to Chattanooga May 28-June 17.
  • Chattanooga June 7-8.
  • Garrison at Rodgersville and guarding Lamb's Ferry till July 18.
  • Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and garrison duty there till December.
  • Hermitage Ford October 20.
  • Nashville November 5.
  • Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.
    Service & Battles - 1863
  • Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
  • Duty at Murfreesboro till June.
  • Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
  • Hoover's, Gap June 24-26.
  • At Dechard, Ala., July 8-August 15.
  • Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
  • Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 11.
  • Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21.
  • Rossville Gap September 21.
  • Siege of Chattanooga September 24-October 27.
  • Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
  • Battles of Chattanooga November 23-25; Mission Ridge November 24-25.
  • Reconnoissance to Lookout Mountain November 29-December 2.
    Service & Battles - 1864
  • Duty on Lookout Mountain till May, 1864.
  • Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-June 21.
  • Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
  • Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Cassville May 19.
  • Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
  • Pickett's Mills May 27.
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-21.
  • Pine HIll June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17.
  • Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., June 21.
  • Duty guarding trains to the front July to September.
  • Action at Dalton, Ga., August 14-15.
  • Ordered to Decatur, Ala., September 24, thence to Nashville, Tenn., and to Tullahoma September 29.
    Service & Battles - 1865
  • Returned to Nashville and duty there till September, 1865.
  • Old members ordered home October, 1864, and mustered out at Pittsburg, Pa., November 4, 1864.
  • Battles of Nashville, Tenn., December 16-17, 1864.
  • Mustered out September 11, 1865.
    Regimental Losses
  • Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 194 Enlisted men by disease. Total 267.