107th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

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The 107th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 106 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 140 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument and a marker at Gettysburg.

1862
February 20 -March 8 Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel Thomas A. Ziegle
March 9 Left State for Washington, D.C.; Camp at Kendall Green, Defenses of Washington, D.C.
April 2 Moved to Upton’s Hill. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock
April 16 To Cloud’s Mills, Va.
May 11 Guard duty on Orange & Alexandria Railroad from Manassas to Catlett’s Station.
May 28-June 1 Expedition to Front Royal to intercept Jackson. Atached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia
June 2-10 At Front Royal
June-August At Catlett’s Station, Weaversville, Warrenton and Waterloo
August 9
Battle of Cedar Mountain
August 16-September 2 Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia
August 21-23 Fords of the Rappahannock
August 24-25 Rappahannock Station
August 28 Thoroughfare Gap
August 30
Second Battle of Bull Run
September 1 Chantilly
September 6-24 Maryland Campaign. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 14
Battle of South Mountain
September 16-17
Battle of Antietam

From the marker for Duryea’s Brigade on the Antietam battlefield:

Early in the morning Duryea’s Brigade moved from its bivouac in the Poffenberger Woods, on the Smoketown Road. Forming in column of Divisions it obliqued right until near J. Poffenberger’s when it marched south through the North Woods, passed the right of Hartsuff’s Brigade and between Pennsylvania Light Battery F (Matthews’) and Pennsylvania Light Battery C (Thompson’s), in position on the high ground between D. R. Miller’s and the East Woods. Arriving at the Cornfield fence the Brigade deployed and moved through the Cornfield to its south edge (75 yards distant) when it encountered the Confederate line, which was about 145 to 160 yards south of this. In less than a half hour the left of the Brigade was withdrawn, the right remained a few minutes longer when it fell back. Portions of the Brigade rallied and made another advance part way through the Cornfield, but fell back as Hartsuff’s Brigade came into action.
September-October Duty near Sharpsburg, Md.
October 28-November 7 Moved to Warrenton
November 11-19 To Falmouth, Va.
November At Brook’s Station
December 12-15
Battle of Fredericksburg
1863
January 20-24, Burnside’s 2nd Campaign, “Mud March”
February-April At Falmouth and Belle Plains
April 27-May 6 Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29-May 2 Operations at Pollock’s Mill Creek
April 29-30 Fitzhugh’s Crossing
May 2-5
Battle of Chancellorsville
June 11-July 24 Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3
Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel James M. Thomson until he was wounded on July 1. Captain Emanuel D. Roath then took command. The 107th brought 255 men to the field, losing 11 killed, 56 wounded and 98 missing.

From the monument on Doubleday Avenue at Gettysburg:

July 1. The regiment fought here from 1 P.M. until the Corps retired and then took position on the left of Cemetery Hill. In the evening of 2d. moved to the left to support the Second Corps, and after the repulse of the enemy returned to former position. On the 3d. moved several times to reinforce different parts of the line.
July 5-24 Pursuit of Lee
August – October Duty along the Rappahannock
October 9-22 Bristoe Campaign
November 7-8 Advance to line of the Rappahannock
November 26-December 2 Mine Run Campaign
1864
February 6-7 Demonstration on the Rapidan
February Reenlisted. Veterans absent until May 16.
February-May Duty on Orange & Alexandria Railroad
March Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
May 4-June 12 Rapidan Campaign
May 5-7
Battle of the Wilderness
May 8-21
Battle of Spottsylvania Court House
May 23-26 Battle of North Anna River
May 25 Jericho Ford
May 26-28 On line of the Pamunkey
May 28-31 Totopotomoy
June 1-12
Cold Harbor
June 1-3 Bethesda Church
June 13 White Oak Swamp
June 16-18
First Assault on Petersburg

Beginning of Siege of Petersburg. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
August 18-21 Weldon Railroad
September 15 Reconnaissance toward Dinwiddie Court House. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
October 27-28 Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run
December 7-12 Warren’s Raid to Hicksford
1865
February 5-7 Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
March 28-April 9 Appomattox Campaign
March 29 Lewis Farm, near Gravelly Run
March 31 White Oak Road
April 1 Five Forks
April 9
Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.
May 1-12 Moved to Washington, D.C.
May 23 Grand Review
June-July Duty at Washington and Alexandria
July 13 Mustered out