United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania > Infantry
The 179th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 6 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| October 23 to December 6 |
Organized at Philadelphia and Harrisburg under Colonel William H. Blair, Lt. Colonel Daniel M. Yost and Major William H. Yerkes |
| December | Ordered to Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Duty at Yorktown, Virginia, and on the Virginia Peninsula, attached to Busteed’s Independent Brigade, 4th Corps, Dept. of Virginia. |
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1863
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| Apri | Attached to West’s Independent Brigade, 4th Corps |
| June | Attached to King’s Independent Brigade, 4th Corps |
| June 24-July 7 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, King’s Division, 22nd Corps |
| July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to Bottom’s Bridge |
| July 2 | Skirmish at Baltimore Cross Roads |
| July 8 | Ordered to Washington, D.C., then to Harrisburg |
| July 27 | Mustered out under Colonel Blair |