United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania > Infantry > 12th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
1861
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April 22 | The 12th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was organized at Pittsburg under the command of Colonel David Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel Norton McGiffin and Major Alexander Hays
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April 24 | The regiment moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
April 25 | Reviewed by Governor Curtin and mustered into U.S. service, then immediately moved by the Northern Central Railway to York, Pennsylvaia to become part of Patterson’s Deparment of Pennsylvania |
May 19 | The regiment was issued uniforms and equipment. |
May 25 | Assigned to the Department of Annapolis. Assigned to guard duty on the strategically critical Northern Central Railroad from State line to Baltimore Maryland, relieving the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry. Regimental headquarters was at Cockeysville, Maryland with Companies I and K, with the other companies of the regiment widely scattered until the end of enlistment. |
August 5 | The regiment mustered out at the end of its enlistment.
Major Alexander Hays went on the become a Major General and was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, where he has a monument at the location where he fell. Regimental Quartermaster James Ekin and Private Joseph Kidoo of Company K would go on the become Brevet Brigadier Generals, and Private Charles Oliver of Company G was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Fort Stedman in 1865. |