Battle Unit Details

UNION PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

124th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Overview:
Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862. Left State for Washington, D. C., August 12. Camp near Fort Albany, Defences of Washington, till September 7. March to Rockville, Md., and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, to May, 1863.

Service:
Maryland Campaign September 7-24. Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17. Burying dead September 18. March to Pleasant Valley, Md., September 19-20. At Maryland Heights till October 30. At Loudon Heights till November 8. Reconnoissance up the Shenandoah Valley November 8-19. Near Harper's Ferry till December 10. March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-15; thence to Fairfax Station. Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863. At Stafford Court House till April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa., and there mustered out May 16, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 17 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 36 Enlisted men by disease. Total 54.
Soldiers:
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