Defense of Harper’s Ferry

Operations in Shenandoah Valley

Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia

Battle of Cedar Mountain

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia

Catlett’s Station

Colonel Leonard was captured.

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

The regiment was in reserve.

Maryland Campaign

Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac.

Battle of South Mountain

The regiment was in reserve.

Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)

From the monument to the west of the Dunker Church:

Occupied a line running north from this marker. Loss, 3 killed, 23 wounded.

From the first of three War Department markers for Goodrich’s Brigade at Antietam:

Goodrich’s Brigade was detached from its Division, when east of Joseph Poffenberger’s, and ordered to the assistance of Doubleday’s Division. It crossed the Hagerstwon Pike near Miller’s, formed in the north part of the West Woods and on the open ground east of them and, supported by Patrick’s Brigade, advanced in the direction of the Dunkard Church. When nearing this point it was stubbornly resisted by the enemy posted in the woods immediately southwest of this, and Colonel Goodrich was mortally wounded. The loss in the Brigade was heavy and it was obliged to retire.

From the second of three War Department markers for Goodrich’s Brigade at Antietam:

When nearing the East Woods, early on the 17th, Goodrich’s Brigade was detached from its Division and ordered to the assistance of Doubleday’s Division engaged north of this. The Purnell Legion was detached near D. R. Miller’s and did not participate with its Brigade in the action near this point, but was engaged with its Division west of the Dunkard Church. After the repulse of the Brigade near this point, the 78th New York was detached.

From the last of three War Department markers for Goodrich’s Brigade at Antietam:

Goodrich’s Brigade was detached from its Division, and supported Gibbon’s and Patrick’s Brigades of the First Army Corps in the fields and woods west of this point.

From Lieutenant Colonel Simpson’s Official Report on the Purnell Legion at Antietam:

We entered the field about 7 o’clock, and were immediately detached from our brigade, by order of General Williams, and sent to the support of the One hundred and twenty-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, which position we held until ordered away. It entered the woods on the right of a white school-house [Dunker Church], where it formed in line and went into action, where it remained until the enemy appeared in overwhelming numbers and compelled it to retire. It fell back to the woods on our right, where our artillery were stationed, when we again formed in line, and went into camp with the brigade.

Overland Campaign

Cold Harbor

First Assault on  Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg begins. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Corps

Battle of the Crater

Colonel Graham was shot in the hand.

Weldon Railroad

Poplar Springs Church

Yellow House

Peeble’s Farm