124th Pennsylvania Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Harrisburg August, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., August 12. Camp near Fort Albany, Defenses of Washington, until 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.--

• September 3-20, 1862 - The Maryland Campaign
  • September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland

Burying dead September 18. March to Pleasant Valley, Md., September 19-20. At Maryland Heights until October 30. At Loudon Heights until November 8. Reconnaissance up the Shenandoah Valley November 8-19. Near Harper's Ferry until 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 until April 27.

• April 27-May 6, 1863 - The Chancellorsville Campaign
  • May 1-5, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
• Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa., and there mustered out May 16, 1863.

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Regiment Statistical Information

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

Legacy

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pagesa 905, 916, 1614)