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41st Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry, 12th PA Reserve

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41st Pennsylvania Infantry, 12th PA Reserve Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 1 by Samuel P Bates, 1869     View Entire Book

Regimental History
Forty-first Infantry. — Cols., John H. Taggart, Martin D. Hardin; Lieut.-Cols., Samuel N. Bailey, Martin D. Hardin, Peter Baldy, Richard Gustin; Majs., Peter Baldy, Andrew J. Bolar, Charles W. Diven. This regiment, the 12th reserve, was organized at Harrisburg, mustered into the U. S. service at Camp Curtin for three years on Aug. 10, 1861, and performed its first active duty guarding the state arsenal, which was endangered by the disaffected three months' troops, who had recently been discharged. In August, it reported at the camp of the reserves, Tennallytown, Md., and was attached to the 3d brigade. It encamped at Langley ; shared in the success at Dranesville in December ; was detached for guard duty at Catlett's station, in April, 1862, and then joined in the battles on the Peninsula. At Mechanicsville, Gaines' mill and Glendale it won a reputation for steadiness and bravery. The regiment remained in the 3d brigade in the campaigns which followed, engaging at the second Bull Run, South mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg and returned with the reserves to Washington for the winter of 1862-63. It fought at Gettysburg, Bristoe and Rappahannock Stations and Mine Run, and spent the winter near Catlett's station. It participated in the battles of the Wilderness campaign in May, 1864, the battle of Bethesda Church being its final engagement, after which the veterans and recruits were transferred to the 190th Pa. infantry and the regiment returned to Harrisburg, where it was mustered out on June 1l, 1864.

Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing Company, 1908 - Volume 1

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