29th Pennsylvania Infantry

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Philadelphia July 1, 1861. Left State for Harper's Ferry, W. Va., August 3. Attached to Gordon's Brigade, Dept. of the Susquehanna, August, 1861. 3rd Brigade. Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah to June, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. Bartlett's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--

Advance on Winchester March 1-12. Occupation of Winchester March 12. Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley March 24-April 27. Woodstock April 1. Edenburg April 1-2. Stony Creek April 2. Operations in Shenandoah Valley May 15-June 17. Front Royal May 23 (Cos. "B" and "G"). Buckton Station May 23.

At Williamsport until June 10. Moved to Front Royal June 10-18; thence to Warrenton and Little Washington July 11-18. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 6-September 2. Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9 (Reserve). Guarding trains during Bull Run Battles. Maryland Campaign September 6-24. Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17 (Provost and Rear Guard).

Duty at Maryland Heights until December. March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-16. Fairfax Station December 12. At Stafford Court House until April, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 99 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 84 Enlisted men by disease. Total 187.

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Notes

  1. Not originally referenced on unit homepage

Sources

  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 704, 705, 707, 715, 719, 720, 721, 723, 759, 827, 835, 866, 900, 905, 916, 1586-1587)