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202nd
Pennsylvania Infantry
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202nd
Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 5 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Two Hundred and Second Infantry. — Col., Charles
Albright; Lieut. -Col., John A. Maus; Maj., Walter H. Seip. This
regiment, from the counties of Carbon, Juniata, Adams, Northumberland,
Lehigh, Northampton, Cumberland, Union and Huntingdon, was mustered into
the U. S. service at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, during the last week of
August and the first week of Sept., 1864, for a term of one year. Col.
Albright had served as colonel of the 132nd infantry and a few of the
other officers and men had been in the service. The regiment did not
join the army at the front, but was employed during most of its term in
the laborious but non-heroic duty of guarding railroads. Its first post
of duty was on the Manassas Gap railroad from Thoroughfare gap to
Rectortown. On the conclusion of Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah
Valley it retired to Alexandria and guarded the Orange & Alexandria
railroad from Bull Run to Alexandria, with headquarters at Fairfax
Station. Near the end of May, 1865, it was ordered to Philadelphia,
whence it was sent into the anthracite coal regions of the state, with
head- quarters at Tamaqua, and served by detachments at various points.
Col. Albright, who had been brevetted brigadier-general, being placed in
command of the district. At the end of July, the regiment assembled in
Harrisburg, where it was mustered out on Aug. 3, 1865. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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