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127th Pennsylvania Regiment - Dauphin County Regiment

Nine Months' Service - Recruited in Dauphin County, also Adams County, Lebanon County, Schuylkill County, PA

127th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• John William Barr
• Shapley, Rufus Edmonds
• Frank Zeigler

127th PA Regiment Companies

• Company K
  Schuylkill County
• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

127th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg August 16, 1862.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., August 17.
• (Co. "A" detached at Harrisburg, Pa., on provost duty entire term.)

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington till December.
• Attached to Jennings' Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, Defences of Washington, to December, 1862.
• March to Falmouth, Va., December 1-9.
• Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Duty at Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
• Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
• Salem Heights May 3-4.
• Banks' Ford May 4.
• Mustered out May 29, 1863.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 15 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 16 Enlisted men by disease.