United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
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1861
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| April 20 | Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, under Colonel Robert P. McDowell, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin C. Crist and Major R. Bruce Petriken |
| April 21 | Moved by rail toward Baltimore, but returned to Harrisburg, and then moved to Philadelphia |
| April 22 | Arrived in Philadelphia |
| April 23 | To Perryville and Annapolis, Md. |
| April 26 | To Annapolis Junction. The train that was to have taken the regiment there had been derailed, and the regiment was forced to proceed on foot |
| April 27 | To Washington, D.C. Visited by President Lincoln and Secretary Seward. |
| May 7 | The regiment received uniforms from the state. |
| May 28 | At Alexandria, Va. |
| June 3 | Moved to Shutter’s Hill. Attached to Franklin’s Brigade of McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia and duty at Alexandria |
| July 3 | Colonel McDowell was tried for allegedly being drunk and unfit for duty on June 27 at Alexandria. After conflicting testimony Colonel McDowell stated that he had taken a drink, but since he had been in the saddle for 20 out of 24 hours three days running he needed it as a stimulant to keep going, and was never drunk. McDowell was acquitted. (from Tarnished Eagles, pp. 104-105, by Thomas P. Lowry M.D.) |
| July 20 | Left for Harrisburg to muster out |
| July 25 | Mustered out. Lieutenant Colonel Christ became colonel of the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry. |