Battle Unit Details

UNION PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

66th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Overview:
Organized at Philadelphia as 30th Pennsylvania Volunteers July and August, 1861. Designation changed September, 1861. Moved to Washington, D. C., September 20, 1861. Attached to Abercrombie's Brigade, Banks' Division, Army Potomac. Duty on the Upper Potomac at Frederick, Md., till February, 1862. Operations on the Potomac October 21-24, 1861. Ordered to Washington, D. C., February, 1862, and consolidated with 73rd and 99th Pennsylvania Volunteers March 1, 1862.

Predecessor unit:

PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS.
30th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

(See 66th Pennsylvania Infantry.)
Soldiers:
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