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16th
Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry
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16th
Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 1 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Sixteenth Infantry. — Col., Thomas A. Ziegle;
Lieut.-Col., George J. Higgins ; Maj., Frank T. Bennett. The 16th was
composed of five militia companies from Schuylkill county, four
companies recruited in York county and one from Cumberland county, and
was mustered in at Harrisburg from April 20 to 30, 1861. The company
from Cumberland county volunteered for three years or during the war,
being the first company from Pennsylvania to do so, and was mustered in
for that term. The remainder of the regiment was mustered in for three
months' service. The regiment was sent to York, then to Chambersburg and
assigned to the 4th brigade, 1st division. It crossed the Potomac with
the advance of the army; returned to the vicinity of Williamsport ;
crossed again early in July ; moved to Martinsburg, Bunker Hill,
Smithfield and Charlestown, and then returned to Harrisburg, where it
was mustered out on July 30. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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