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The 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in August 1862 and mustered in under the command of Colonel Richard A. Oakford.. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, II Corps, to May 1863.
Allabach was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and attended the academy there. At the age of 20, he enlisted in Company E, 3rd U.S. Infantry for five years. During his service in the Mexican–American War, he participated in every battle his regiment was in, including the Battle of Vera Cruz, the Battle of Chapultepec, and at the Battle of Contreras, he is noted as planting the first flag in ...
The battery was not engaged again until the Battle of Fredericksburg, in which it was assigned to second division III Corps under Brigadier General Daniel Sickles. Clark commanded the artillery attached to first division III Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville under Brigadier General David B. Birney .
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Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12–15, 1862 "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863 February, 1863 Light Division, 6th Army Corps, to May, 1863 At White Oak Church until April, 1863 Chancellorsville Campaign April 27 – May 6, 1863 Operations about Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2, 1863
Among them 132 enlisted and 8 officers dead in action or of wounds sustained in action, 304 enlisted and 13 officers injured, and 275 enlisted and 7 officers missing or captured. [10] Disease claimed an additional 168 enlisted and 2 officers. [2] An estimated 77 men died as Confederate prisoners of war, many at Andersonville Prison. [2]
The 6th participated in the capture of Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg and then were prominent in the fighting at Salem Church. [ 6 ] Like most of VI Corps, the regiment and its brigade were held in reserve during the Battle of Gettysburg , holding a flank guard position behind Big Round Top , losing only one man wounded.
United States flag with 35 stars, as it appeared after the admission of West Virginia in 1863 until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York, that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army during the American Civil War.