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187th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in the city of Philadelphia, PA

187th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Anderson Channell
• Henry Gable
• Matthew McCall
• George Milner
• Walter Ruby

187th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Rosters

187th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia March 3 to May 4, 1864, from 1st Battalion Militia Infantry (6 Mos.).

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Moved to Washington, D.C., May 18, 1864.
• Moved to join Army of the Potomac May 26, and reported at Cold Harbor, Va., June 6.
• Cold Harbor June 6-12.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.
• Siege of Petersburg June 16 to September 22.
• Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps.
• Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 21-23.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30 (Reserve).
• Weldon Railroad August 18-21.
• Relieved September 22 and ordered to Philadelphia.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Garrison and escort duty at Camp Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Pa, and provost duty at other points in Pennsylvania till August, 1865.
• Guard of honor over remains of President Lincoln in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and escort to funeral cortege May, 1865.
• Mustered out August 3, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 66 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 136.