United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania


The 172nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 13 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
October 27 to November 29 Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel Charles Kleckner, Lt. Colonel Thddeus G. Bogle and Major M. T. Heintzelman
December 2 Moved to Washington, D.C.
December 4 To Newport News. Va.
December 10 Lt. Colonel Bogle dischrged and replaced by Lt. Colonel James A. Johnson
December 12 To Yorktown, Va.
December Garrison duty at Yorktown, Va. assigned to 4th. Corps, Dept. of Virginia
1863
April Attached to West’s Advance Brigade, 4th Corps, Dept. of Virginia
June 27-July 7 Dix’s Peninsula Campaign. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Corps
July 9 Ordered to Washington, D.C.
July 14 Join Army of the Potomac at Hagerstown, Md. assigned to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Corps
July 19-25 Pursuit of Lee to Williamsport, Md. March to Warrenton Junction, Va.
August 1 Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa., and mustered out under Colonel Kleckner