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The 1st Pennsylvania Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War that served for three months at the beginning of the war.
Seven companies of the regiment (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 9th) were made up of Scotch-Irish, Germans, Welsh, Manx, Free Quakers, along with loyal English whigs; from Lancaster; the 6th and 7th companies were mostly men of German and Dutch American descent, from Berks and Northampton counties.
The Pennsylvania Line was assigned a quota of 12 infantry regiments for 1777, reduced to 11 infantry regiments for 1778–1779, to 6 infantry regiments for 1781, and to 3 infantry regiments for 1783. 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Authorized September 16, 1776. Disbanded November 15, 1783).
The inscription on the drum reads "Company D 1st Inft. Regt. P.R.V.C. Gettysburg July 2nd 3rd 1863." 2nd Reserves (31st Infantry) 3rd Reserves (32nd Infantry) 4th Reserves (33rd Infantry) 5th Reserves (34th Infantry) 6th Reserves (35th Infantry) 7th Reserves (36th Infantry) 8th Reserves (37th Infantry) 9th Reserves (38th Infantry)
He joined the 19th Pennsylvania Infantry the day before the April 1861 Confederate attack on Fort Sumter and later served with the 1st Corps D'Afrique Engineers and as a lieutenant with the 95th ...
The 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 30th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.It was a part of the famed Pennsylvania Reserve division in the Army of the Potomac for much of the war, and served in the Eastern Theater in a number of important battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg.
1st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, for the duration; December 1846 – July and August 1848. Colonel Francis M. Wynkoop [ 41 ] 2nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, for the duration, (12 companies); January 1847 – July 1848.
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