United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania > Infantry > 24th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
1861
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May 1 | The regiment was organized at Philadelphia and mustered into three months Federal service.
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May 7 | The 24th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment mustered into United States servie for three months under Colonel Joshua T. Owen, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Heenan and Major Dennis O’Kane. |
June 3 | Moved to Chambersburg, Pa. Attached to Negley’s 5th Brigade, Keim’s 2nd Division, Patterson’s Army |
June 16 | Moved to Hagerstown, Md. |
June 18 | To Williamsport |
July 3 | Occupation of Martinsburg |
July 15 | Advance on Bunker Hill |
July 17 | At Charlestown |
July 27 | General Patterson requested the regiment remain in service beyond its original three months until replacements arrived, and the regiment volunteered to extend its service by two weeks. |
August 10 | Moved to Harper’s Ferry; then by rail to Baltimore and Philadelphia and mustered out. |