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The Department of Pennsylvania (or General Patterson's Army) was a large military unit in the Union army at the outset of the American Civil War.Established on April 27, 1861, its territory consisted of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and all of Maryland not embraced in the Department of Annapolis (later renamed Department of Maryland) and the Department of Washington.
The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee maintains and preserves just under 400 of Pennsylvania's historic Civil War battle flags The State Museum of Pennsylvania houses an extensive general collection of Civil War artifacts, as well as Peter Rothermel's massive painting of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Department of Pennsylvania represented the Union Army at the Battle of Hoke's Run during the outset of the American Civil War.Although the entire force crossed the Potomac River into Virginia, the First and Sixth Brigades were primarily engaged.
Attached to Brig. Gen. George H. Thomas's [note 1] 5th Brigade, 1st Division, of Major General Robert Patterson's [note 2] Army in the Department of Pennsylvania. [7] Col. Ballier was authorized to recruit another regiment for three years service. This became the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry which included many men of the 21st. [2]
The 25th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was a Three Months' Service infantry regiment which served with the Union Army during the American Civil War.Composed of Pennsylvania First Defenders, the first five companies of men who responded to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to defend the national capital in Washington, D.C. following the Fall of Fort Sumter to Confederate States ...
The 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (aka Goldstream Regiment) was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was noted for its holding the high ground at the center of the line at Antietam as part of Tyndale's 1st Brigade, Greene's 2nd Division of Mansfield's XII Corps .
The 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Raised in Pittsburgh and its surrounding counties in April 1861 for three months of service, the regiment spent its first month in training, then guarded the Northern Central Railway in Maryland until it was mustered out.
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania (9 P) Units and formations of the Union army from Pennsylvania (1 C, 176 P) Pages in category "Pennsylvania in the American Civil War"