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79th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in Lancaster County, Washington County, PA


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79th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

    Organization
  • Organized at Lancaster September 19, 1861.
  • Moved to Pittsburg, thence to Louisville, Ky., October 18,
  • And to Nolin Station, Ky., October 24.
  • Attached to Negley's 4th Brigade, McCook's Command, 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 of the Ohio, to August, 1862.
  • 28th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army Ohio, to September, 1862.
  • 28th Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862.
  • 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Centre Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.
  • 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to April, 1863. 2nd Brigade,
  • 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
    Service & Battles - 1862
  • Duty at Nolin till December, 1861, and at Munfordsville till February, 1862.
  • Moved to Bowling Green, Ky., thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 3.
  • At Nashville till March 28.
  • Ordered to Columbia, Tenn., and guard Nashville & Decatur Railroad till May.
  • Expedition to Rodgersville, Ala., May 13-14.
  • Lamb's Ferry May 14.
  • Negley's Expedition to Chattanooga May 28-June 17.
  • Jasper, Sweeden's Cove, June 4.
  • Chattanooga June 7-8.
  • Ordered to Tullahoma, Tenn., and duty there till August.
  • Ordered to Nashville, thence march to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.
  • Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-16.
  • Battle of Perryville October 8.
  • Guard Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Mitchellsville,
  • November 9-December 7.
  • Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.
  • Jefferson December 30.
    Service & Battles - 1863
  • Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
  • Duty at Murfreesboro till June.
  • Expedition to McMinnville April 20-30.
  • Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
  • Hoover's Gap June 24-26.
  • Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.
  • 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 26.
  • Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
  • Battle of Chattanooga November 23-25.
    Service & Battles - 1864
  • Reenlisted February 9, 1864.
  • Veterans on furlough March and April.
  • Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
  • Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
  • Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
  • 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-July 2.
  • Pine Hill June 11-14.
  • Lost Mountain June 15-17.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
  • Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
  • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
  • Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
  • Utoy Creek August 5-7.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood September 29-November 3.
  • March to the sea November 15-December 10.
  • Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
    Service & Battles - 1865
  • Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
  • League Cross Roads, near Lexington, S.C., February 15.
  • Cloud's House February 27.
  • Averysboro, N. C., March 16.
  • Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
  • Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
  • Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.
  • Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
  • Bennett's House April 26.
  • Surrender of Johnston and his army.
  • March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
  • Grand Review May 24.
  • Mustered out July 12, 1865.
    Regimental Losses
  • Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 118 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 145 Enlisted men by disease. Total 268.