28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War

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The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 151 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 124 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by two monuments at Gettysburg.

1861
June 28	Fifteen companies of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment were organized at Philadelphia: Company A was primarily recruited in Philadelphi and Luzerne Counties Company B in Westmoreland County Company C in Philadelphia County Company D in Philadelphia Carbon Counties Company E in Carbon and Northampton Counties Company F in Allegheny County Company G in Allegheny and Northampton Counties Company H in Allegheny County Company I in Philadelphia County Company K in Philadelphia County Company L in Allegheny County Company M in Philadelphia County Company N in Luzerne County Company O in Huntingdon County Company P in Philadelphia County The regiment was uniformed and equipped at Colonel Geary’s expense, being provided with gray cloth uniforms and Enfield rifles. Enough surplus recruits were available to form Knap’s Battery. Enough surplus recruits were available to form Knap’s Battery of Light Artillery.
June 28	The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment mustered at Philadelphia under the command of Colonel John Geary, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel De Korponey, and Major Hector Tynsdale.Geary was a Mexican War hero, last Alcalde and first mayor mayor of San Francisco, and territorial governor of Kansas. After the war he would become Governor of Pennsylvania. John W. Geary as Brigadier General
July 27	Ten companies moved via Baltimore, Md. to Harper’s Ferry. Attached to George H. Thomas’ Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah. Duty at Sandy Hook, opposite Harper’s Ferry.
August	Assigned to 1st Brigade, Banks’ Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah
August 13	Moved to Point of Rocks, Md., and guard frontier from Nolan’s Ferry to Antietam Aqueduct
September 15	Pritchard’s Mills, Va. (Companies B, D and I)
September 24	Point of Rocks
October 2	Knoxville
October	Attached to Geary’s Independent Brigade, Banks’ Division, Army of the Potomac
October 16	Bolivar Heights (Cos. A, D, F, G)
October 30	Nolan’s Ferry
November 1	Captain Ario Pardee of Company A was promoted to major
November 10	Berlin
December 19	Point of Rocks
1862
February 24-25	Crossed the Potomac River at Sandy Hook. Six men of Company P were drowned when their boat overturned.
February 25-May 6	Operations in Loudon County, Va.
February 26	Occupation of Bolivar Heights
March 1	Lovettsville
March	Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Banks’ 5th Corps
March 7	Wheatland
March 8	Occupation of Leesburg
March 14	Upperville
March 15	Ashby’s Gap
March 15-20	Capture of Rectortown, Piedmont, Markham, Linden and Front Royal
March 27-28	Operations about Middleburg and White Plains
April 2	Thoroughfare Gap
April 6	Warrenton
April	Attached to Geary’s Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah
April 14	Near Piedmont
April 25	Colonel Geary was promoted to Brigadier General. Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel De Korponay was promoted to colonel and command of the regiment, Major Hector Tyndale to lieutenant colonel and Captain Robert Warden of Company B to major.
May 15	Linden (Company O)
May 16	Guard railroad from White Plains to Manassas
May 24	Reconnaissance from Front Royal to Browntown
May 25	Guard railroad and gaps of the Blue Ridge
June	Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia
June 29	Joined Banks at Middletown
June 30	Major Warden died
July 1	Captain William Raphael of Company C was promoted to major
August 9	Reconnaissance to Thoroughfare Mountain
August	Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia
August 16-September 2	Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia
August 24	White Sulphur Springs
August 30	Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)
September 6-24	Maryland Campaign attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 16-17	Battle of Antietam Lt. Colonel Tyndale took command of the brigade in severe fighting in the Cornfield while Major Ario Pardee commanded the regiment. It captured two guns and five flags, losing 266 men. Captain Peter Laws and Second Lieutenant Joseph Markle were killed and Lieutenant Colonel Tyndale and Captains James Fitzpatrick and William Jordan were wounded. From the first of two War Department markers on Tyndale’s Brigade at Antietam: Tyndale’s Brigade, on the right of the Division, reached this point about 8 A. M., relieved a portion of Crawford’s Brigade, and engaged the Confederate Infantry in the East Woods. After a short and sharp contest, the enemy gave way and the Brigade, obliquing to the left, crossed the Smoketown Road, entered the fields to the right of Mumma’s burning buildings, and took position behind the ridge opposite the Dunkard Church. From the second of two War Department markers on Tyndale’s Brigade at Antietam: Tyndale’s Brigade, after the right flank of the enemy had been turned, pursued through the East Woods, crossed to the south side of the Smoketown Road and passing to the right of Mumma’s burned out buildings, halted behind the ridge a few yards east of this point, where, with the assistance of Monroe’s and Tompkins’ Rhode Island Batteries, it repulsed several assaults of the enemy. About 10:30 A. M. the Brigade crossed the road and entered the woods on the right of the Dunkard Church. Joined on the right by the 13th New Jersey Infantry of Williams Division, it remained in this position until noon when it was compelled to retire to the East Woods. Corporal Jacob G. Orth of Company D was awarded the medal of honor for capturing the flag of the 7th South Carolina Infantry, although he had been wounded in the shoulder.
September-December	Duty at Bolivar Heights
October 9	Companies L – P were transferred to serve as the nucleus of the 147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Major Ario Pardee was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 147th
October 21	Reconnaissance to Lovettsville
November 9	Reconnaissance to Ripon, W. Va.
November 29	Lieutenant Colonel Tyndale was promoted to brigadier general
December 2-6	Reconnaissance to Winchester
December 10-14	Moved to Fredericksburg, Va.
December	At Stafford Court House
1863
January 15	Major Raphail resigned and Captain Lansfield Chapman of Company E was promoted to major
January 20-24	“Mud March”
March 5	Captain Thomas J. Ahl of Company H was promoted to colonel, replacing Colonel De Korponay, who was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate for illness. The regiment’s Enfield rifles were exchanged for Springfield rifles.
April 27-May 6	Chancellorsville Campaign
April 30	Old Wilderness Tavern
May 1-5	Battle of Chancellorsville The regiment lost over a hundred casualties out of the three hundred engaged. Major Lansfield Chapman, commanding the regiment, and First Lieutenant William Shields were killed. Captains Charles Borbridge and William Jordan and First Lieutenants Alfred Colgan and Charles Kennedy were wounded. Captain Conrad U. Meyer took command of the regiment.
June 11-July 24	Gettysburg Campaign
July 1-3	Battle of Gettysburg The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was commanded by Captain John H. Flynn. It brought 370 men to the field, losing 3 killed, 23 wounded (including Captain Flynn) and 2 missing. From the Slocum Avenue monument to the 28th Pennsylvania: Arrived at 5 p.m. July 1st and went into position on the ridge north of Little Round Top. At 6:30 a.m. July 2nd moved to Culp’s Hill where the regiment advanced to Rock Creek to support the skirmish line. At dark retired and moved with the Brigade. Returned at about 3 a.m. July 3rd and at 8 a.m. advanced and occupied the works from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. From the Rock Creek monument: The regiment took position here July 2nd abut 8 a.m. Deployed as skirmishers and was engaged with the enemy during the day. Remained until 7 p.m. when it was ordered to rejoin First Brigade Monument along Rock Creek at Gettysburg to the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry
July 13	Fair Play, Md.
July – September	Duty on line of the Rapidan
September 24-October 3	Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. Transferred to Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater.
October 26-29	Reopening Tennessee River
October 28-29	Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn.
November 23-27	Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign
November 23-24	Battles of Lookout Mountain
November 25	Mission Ridge
November 27	Ringgold Gap, Taylor’s Ridge First Lieutenant Pete Katlor was mortally wounded
December	Guard duty on Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad
December 12	Captain Flynn was promoted to lieutenant colonel
December 24	The 28th Pennsylvania regiment reenlisted
1864
January – February	Veterans on furlough
March 18	Colonel Ahl resigned.
March 27	Captain James Fizpatrick of Company A was promoted to major
April	Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
April 12-16	Expedition down the Tennessee River to Triana
May 1	Atlanta Campaign
May 5-13	Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton
May 8	Dug Gap, or Mill Springs Major Fitzpatrick was wounded
May 14-15	Battle of Resaca
May 19	Near Cassville
May 22-25	Advance on Dallas
May 25	New Hope Church
May 25-June 5	Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills
June 9	Lieutenant Colonel Flynn was promoted to colonel
June 10-July 2	Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain
June 11-14	Pine Hill
June 15-17	Lost Mountain
June 15	Gilgal, or Golgotha Church Captain Alfred Colgan of Company I was wounded for the second time, and eventually discharged
June 17	Muddy Creek
June 19	Noyes Creek
June 22	Kolb’s Farm
June 27	Assault on Kenesaw
July 4	Ruff’s Station or Smyrna Camp Ground
July 5-17	Chattahoochie River
July 19-20	Peach Tree Creek Captain Frank Bonsal wounded
July 22	Siege of Atlanta
August 9	Major James Fitzpatrick was promoted to lieutenant colonel
August 26-September 2	Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge
September 2-November 15	Occupation of Atlanta
November 9	Whitehall Road, near Atlanta
November 15-December 10	March to the sea
December 10-21	Siege of Savannah
1865
January to April	Campaign of the Carolinas The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Fitzpatrick .
February 12-13	North Edisto, S. C.
February 15	Red Bank Creek
February 15	Congaree Creek
March 16	Averysboro, N. C.
March 19-21	Battle of Bentonville
March 24	Occupation of Goldsboro. Captain George Martin died.
April 9-13	Advance on Raleigh
April 14	Occupation of Raleigh
April 26	Bennett’s House Surrender of Johnston and his army.
April 29-May 20	March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va.
May 24	Grand Review
June	Duty in the Dept. of Washington attached to 3rd Brigade, Bartlett’s Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington
June 1	Captain Jacob Arner promoted to major
July 18	The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was mustered out under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Fitzpatrick and Major Arnor

Fifteen companies of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment were organized at Philadelphia:

Operations in Loudon County, Va.

Thoroughfare Gap

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

Maryland Campaign

Battle of Antietam

From the first of two War Department markers on Tyndale’s Brigade at Antietam:

From the second of two War Department markers on Tyndale’s Brigade at Antietam:

“Mud March”

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Gettysburg

From the Slocum Avenue monument to the 28th Pennsylvania:

From the Rock Creek monument:

Movement to Bridgeport, Ala.

Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn.

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

Battles of Lookout Mountain

Mission Ridge

Ringgold Gap, Taylor’s Ridge

Atlanta Campaign

Dug Gap, or Mill Springs

Battle of Resaca

New Hope Church

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain

Gilgal, or Golgotha Church

Assault on Kenesaw

Peach Tree Creek

Siege of Atlanta

Occupation of Atlanta

March to the sea

Siege of Savannah

Campaign of the Carolinas

Battle of Bentonville

Bennett’s House

Grand Review