6th Pennsylvania Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
DESIGNATIONS
Date(s) | Designation | Brigaded with |
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April 22, 1861 | Organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Dauphin County) | 3 Month term of service |
June 1861 - July 1861 | (I) Dept. of Pennsylvania / 1st Div. / 1st Brig. (Dept.) Patterson / (1) Cadwallader / (1) Thomas |
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July 27, 1861 | Mustered out of service | x |
UNIT HISTORY
- Organized at Harrisburg April 22, 1861 for a 3 month term of service
- Moved to Philadelphia April 22, and duty there until May 7
- Duty along Pittsburg, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad May 7-28
- One Company at Newark, one Company at Chesapeake City, one Company at North East, one Company at Charleston, three Companies at Elkton and three Companies at Perryville
- Moved to Chambersburg May 28
- Attached to Department of Pennsylvania / 1st Division (Cadwallader) / 1st Brigade (Thomas), Brigaded with:
- March to Greencastle June 6
- Cross Potomac and advance on Martinsburg Road June 15
- At Williamsport June 16-24
- At Downsville until July 1
- July 2, 1861 -
Action at Falling Waters, West Virginia
- Occupation of Martinsburg July 3
- Advance on Bunker Hill July 15
- Moved to Charleston July 17
- Mustered out July 27, 1861
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 270, 970, 1579)