28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry | |
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Active | June 28, 1861 – July 18, 1865 |
Country | Carolinas Campaign Battle of Bentonville |
Pennsylvania U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861–1865 | ||||
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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.[1]
Service
The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a three-year enlistment and mustered on June 28, 1861, under the command of Colonel John W. Geary. (Unusually, the regiment initially contained fifteen companies.)
The regiment was attached to George H. Thomas' Brigade, Department of the Shenandoah, to August 1861. 1st Brigade, Banks' Division, Department of the Shenandoah, to October 1861. Geary's Independent Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' V Corps, to April 1862. Geary's Independent Brigade, Department of the Shenandoah, to June 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to August 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863, and Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865. 3rd Brigade, Bartlett's Division, XXII Corps, Department of Washington, to July 1865.
The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out July 18, 1865.
Detailed service
Moved to Baltimore, Md., and Harpers Ferry, Va., July 27. Duty at Sandy Hook, opposite Harpers Ferry, until August 13, 1861. Moved to Point of Rocks, Md., and guard frontier from Nolan's Ferry to Antietam Aqueduct. Pritchard's Mills, Va., September 15 (Companies B, D, & I). Point of Rocks September 24. Knoxville October 2. Bolivar Heights October 16 (Companies A, D, F, & G). Nolan's Ferry October 30. Berlin November 10. Point of Rocks December 19. Crossed Potomac February 24–25. Operations in Loudon County, Va., February 25 – May 6. Occupation of Bolivar Heights February 26. Lovettsville March 1. Wheatland March 7. Occupation of Leesburg March 8. Upperville March 14. Ashby's Gap March 15. Capture of Rectortown, Piedmont, Markham, Linden, and Front Royal March 15–20. Operations about Middleburg and White Plains March 27–28. Thoroughfare Gap April 2. Warrenton April 6. Near Piedmont April 14. Linden May 15 (Company O). Reconnaissance from Front Royal to Browntown May 24. Guard railroad from White Plains to Manassas until May 24, and railroad and gaps of the Blue Ridge until June 23. Joined Banks at Middletown June 29. Reconnaissance to Thoroughfare Mountain August 9. Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 16 – September 2. White Sulphur Springs August 24. Second Battle of Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6–24. Battle of Antietam September 16–17. Duty at Bolivar Heights until December. Reconnaissance to Lovettsville October 21. Companies L, M, N, and O transferred to
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 284 men during service; 6 officers and 151 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 124 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
- Colonel John W. Geary – promoted to brigadier general April 25, 1862
- Colonel Gabriel De Korponay – discharged due to illness March 26, 1863
- Colonel Thomas J. Ahl – resigned March 18, 1864
- Colonel John H. Flynn – commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg while still at the rank of captain
- Lieutenant Colonel James Fitzpatrick – commanded during the Carolinas Campaign
- Ario Pardee, Jr.– commanded at the Battle of Antietam
- Major Lansford F. Chapman – commanded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, where he was killed in action
- Captain Conrad U. Meyer – commanded at the Battle of Chancellorsville after Maj. Chapman was killed in action
See also
- List of Pennsylvania Civil War Units
- Pennsylvania in the Civil War
Notes
- ^ Bailey (1984), p. 140; Carman (2019), p. 105.
References
- Bailey, Ronald H. (1984). The Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books. ISBN 0-8094-4740-1.
- Behe, Luke. Reminiscence of the War (Patton, PA: Patton Pub. Co.), 1895.
- Brown, Henry E. The 28th and 147th Regiments Penna. Vols. at Gettysburg (S.l.: s.n.), 1890.
- OCLC 1112386435. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
- Hayward, Ambrose Henry. Last to Leave the Field: The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press), 2010. ISBN 1-5723-3729-X
- Nicholson, John P. Association of the 28th and 147th Regiments Infantry and Independent Battery "E," Light Artillery, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers (Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott), 1882.
- Tyndale, Hector. A Memoir of Hector Tyndale, Brigadier-General and Brevet Major-General, U.S. Volunteers (Philadelphia: Collins), 1882.
- -----. Re-union of the 28th & 147th Regiments, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Philadelphia, Nov. 24th, 1871 (Philadelphia: Pawson & Nicholson), 1872.
- Attribution
- This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.