78th Pennsylvania Infantry

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Pittsburg October 15, 1861. Left State for Louisville, Ky., October 18, thence moved to Nolin Station, Ky., October 24, and duty there until December. Attached to Negley's 4th Brigade, McCook's Division, at Nolin, to November, 1861. 7th Brigade, Army Ohio, to December, 1861. 7th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army Ohio, to March, 1862. Negley's Independent Brigade, Army Ohio, to August, 1862. 7th Brigade, 8th Division, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Centre Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. Garrison Nashville, Tenn., to September, 1865.

SERVICE.--At Munfordsville, Ky., December, 1861, to February, 1862. March to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 3. Guard railroad from Nashville to Columbia until May, and at Decatur May. Expedition to Rodgersville May 13-14. Negley's Expedition to Chattanooga May 28-June 17.

Garrison at Rodgersville and guarding Lamb's Ferry until July 18. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and garrison duty there until December. Hermitage Ford October 20. Nashville November 5. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Hoover's, Gap June 24-26. At Dechard, Ala., July 8-August 15.

Duty guarding trains to the front July to September. Action at Dalton, Ga., August 14-15. Ordered to Decatur, Ala., September 24, thence to Nashville, Tenn., and to Tullahoma September 29. Returned to Nashville and duty there until September, 1865. Old members ordered home October, 1864, and mustered out at Pittsburg, Pa., November 4, 1864. Battles of Nashville, Tenn., December 16-17, 1864. Mustered out September 11, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 194 Enlisted men by disease. Total 267.

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Notes

  1. Dyer says this unit skirmished only on the 8th, but unit homepage lists it skirmishing on the 7th and 8th

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