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The 7th Pennsylvania Reserves were organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They were ordered to Washington, D.C., on July 21 and mustered into United States service July 27, 1861. [2] Elisha B. Harvey, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, served as the regiment's first colonel, Joseph Totten as lieutenant colonel and Chauncey A. Lyman ...
Timeline: History of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers at the Library of Congress "Muster rolls of the Pennsylvania volunteers in the war of 1812-1814, with cotemporary papers and documents. Vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Lane S. Hart, Pennsylvania State Printer and Binder. 1880. Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, ed. (1907).
The 2nd Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment also known as the 31st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army as part of the Pennsylvania Reserves infantry division during the American Civil War.
As companies of volunteers and militiamen began arriving in the state capital at Harrisburg, the men were gathered north of the city at Camp Curtin. On April 20, 1861, ten companies of volunteers were organized into a regiment and dubbed the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry. Most of the recruits came from central and south-central Pennsylvania.
The 148th Pennsylvania Infantry was composed of volunteers raised chiefly in Centre County, Pennsylvania, with seven companies hailing from the county.Company C in particular was recruited in the area surrounding the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania (today known as Pennsylvania State University) and included many of the college's students. [1]
The 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, officially known as the 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Formed mostly from a militia unit in Norristown in southeastern Pennsylvania , the regiment enlisted at the beginning of the American Civil War in April 1861 for a ...
The 110th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Huntingdon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and mustered in on August 19, 1861, for three years service under the command of Colonel William Delaware Lewis Jr. The regiment comprised four companies from urban Philadelphia and six from rural counties in western Pennsylvania.
The 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Raised in Pittsburgh and its surrounding counties in April 1861 for three months of service, the regiment spent its first month in training, then guarded the Northern Central Railway in Maryland until it was mustered out.