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Index Of Pennsylvania-related Articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles on people, places, and things related to Pennsylvania in the United States. 0–9 *.pa.us – Internet second-level domain for Pennsylvania * 2nd State to ratify the Constitution of the United States *30th Street Station *1st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 12th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 20th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *23rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 25th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *26th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *27th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 29th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *45th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 46th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * 50th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment *51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of USA PA
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26th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 26th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 20, 1861 and mustered on May 27, 1861 for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel William F. Small. The regiment was attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C. to August 1861. Hooker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October 1861. Grover's Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, II Corps, to June 1864. The 26th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out June 18, 1864. Veterans and recruits were transferred to the 99th Pennsylvania Infantry. Detailed service Moved to Washington, D.C., June 15, 1861. Duty in the defenses of Washington, D. C., until October 1861, and at Budd's Ferry, Md., October 20, 1861 to April 1, 1862. Moved to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 54th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. History The 54th was recruited during August and September 1861. The companies were from the following counties: * Company A Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Cambria Counties * Company B Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Somerset County * Company C Somerset County * Company D Somerset County * Company E Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Cambria County * Company F Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg * Company G Somerset County * Company H Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton, Cambria, and Somerset Counties * Company I Cambria County * Company K Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County Jacob M. Campbell was selected as colonel of the regiment, Barnabas McDermit as Lieutenant Colonel, lieutenant colonel and John P. Linton as major. The companies were gathered together and organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
53rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. History Formation The regiment was organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1861, with John R. Brooke, of Pottstown, Montgomery County, was commissioned colonel on August 21. Brooke had previously served as a captain in the three-month 4th Pennsylvania Infantry, and he immediately commenced recruiting his own regiment. By late September, the first companies had been organized and the first company was mustered into the service of the United States on September 28 at Camp Curtin. Ten companies were eventually formed, raised in the following counties: * Company A, Montgomery County * Company B, Chester and Montgomery Counties * Company C, Blair and Huntingdon Counties * Company D, Centre and Clearfield Counties * Company E, Carbon and Union Counties * Company F, Luzerne County * Company G, Potter County * Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. History Formed in response to President Abraham Lincoln's calls, during the spring and summer of 1861, for volunteers to enroll for military service, the 52nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was composed primarily of men from Bradford, Clinton, Columbia, Luzerne, Union and Wyoming counties of Pennsylvania. Authority to recruit men for the regiment had been granted by Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin on August 1, 1861, to Lycoming County resident John C. Dodge, Jr., who had performed his three months' service during the opening months of the American Civil War. Following their muster-in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, the members of this regiment engaged in basic training at this Union Army camp until November 8, 1861. While stationed here, John C. Dodge, Jr., Henry M. Hoyt, and John B. Conyngham were commissioned as field and staff office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 51st Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and mustered in November 16, 1861 for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel (United States), Colonel John F. Hartranft. The regiment was attached to Reno's Brigade, Burnside's North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Department of North Carolina, to July 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, IX Corps (Union Army), IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April 1863. Army of the Ohio to June 1863. Army of the Tennessee to August 1863, and Army of the Ohio to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps, to July 1865. The 51st Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out July 27, 1865. Detailed service This regiment was recruited during the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 50th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 50th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and mustered in October 1, 1861 for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Benjamin C. Christ. The regiment was initially armed with Model 1816 flintlock muskets converted to percussion, within a few months they were replaced with .54 caliber Austrian Lorenz Rifles. In 1863, the 50th Pennsylvania were forced to replace them with Model 1861 Springfield rifles due to logistics reasons (the regiment was the only one in the IX Corps that required .54 caliber ammunition). The soldiers were unhappy with this as they considered the Lorenz rifles a more-than-adequate weapon that also weighed less than the Springfield rifle. The regiment was attached to Stevens' Brigade, W. T. Sherman's South Carolina Expedition, to April 1862. District of Beaufort, Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 49th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 49th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Lewistown and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and mustered in September 14, 1861 at Camp Curtin for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel William H. Irwin. The regiment was attached to Hancock's Brigade, W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, VI Corps, to July 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, VI Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, to August 1864. Reserve Division, Department of West Virginia, to September 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, VI Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, to December 1864, and Army of the Potomac, to July 1865. The 49th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out July 15, 1865. Detaile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 48th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the "Schuylkill Regiment", was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry was recruited in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during August and September 1861. It was mustered into federal service there, by detachments, in mid-September. Many members of the regiment had seen prior service in at least three Pennsylvania units which had seen service as 'three-month term of enlistment' organizations - the 6th, 14th, and 25th Pennsylvania Infantry regiments. A large number of men in the regiment had been miners prior to the war. Initially equipped with smoothbore muskets which had been converted from flintlock to percussion, the regiment was then re-equipped with Enfield rifles in May 1862. The regiment first saw action on March 14, 1862, when six of its companies took part in the Battle of New Bern, North C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Formed by adults and teenagers from small towns and larger metropolitan areas of Pennsylvania, this regiment was composed primarily of men of German heritage, and was ultimately known as the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers due to the length of service by the majority of men on its rosters. Many of their family and friends still spoke German or its Pennsylvania Dutch variant in their homes and churches more than a hundred years after their forebears emigrated from Germany in search of religious or political freedom. Other members of this regiment traced their roots to Ireland; at least two had emigrated from Cuba; several were formerly enslaved men who had escaped or been liberated from plantations or other Confederate-held areas of the Deep South. Roughly seventy percent of those who served with the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry were reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
46th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a Union Army regiment in the American Civil War. It served in both the Eastern and Western Theaters, most notably at the 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain and during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. During the war, the regiment lost 17% of its strength through combat losses and disease. History Organization and early movements The regiment was recruited in Allegheny, Berks, Dauphin, Luzerne, Mifflin, Northampton, Northumberland, and Potter counties, and mustered into service on September 4, 1861, under the command of Colonel Joseph F. Knipe. At Camp Curtin, in Harrisburg, they were formally accepted into the service of the United States and received their uniforms and equipment. Additionally, they were presented with their regimental colors by Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin. From late September 1861 through February 1862, the 46th was stationed on the upper Potomac River in Maryland, performing guard and outpost duty in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 45th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized beginning July 28, 1861 and mustered in October 21, 1861 at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Thomas Welsh. The regiment was attached to Jamison's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac, to October 1861. Unattached, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of the South, to July 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April 1863, and Army of the Ohio to June 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, IX Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August 1863, and Army of the Ohio to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July 1865. The 45th Pennsylvania I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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