| regiment. | battle. | Killed and Wounded. | regiment. | battle. | Killed and Wounded. |
| 125th Pennsylvania | Antietam | 145 | 133d Pennsylvania | Fredericksburg | 184 |
| 130th Pennsylvania | Antietam | 178 | 134th Pennsylvania | Fredericksburg | 148 |
| 131st Pennsylvania | Fredericksburg | 175 | 151st Pennsylvania | Gettysburg | 2332 |
| 132d Pennsylvania | Antietam | 152 | 203d Pennsylvania3 | Fort Fisher | 191 |
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the 18th of April.1 On the following day, the 26th Pennsylvania, and the 6th Massachusetts arrived at Baltimore en-route for the Capital, and in the fight with the mob in the streets of that city the 26th Pennsylvania lost one man killed and several wounded.
The nine-months regiments from Pennsylvania furnished some noteworthy items to the casualty lists of the war. For instance:
The greatest battle of the war was fought on the soil of Pennsylvania, and by a well-ordered fortune the first volley to greet the invading foe flashed from the rifles of a Pennsylvania regiment.
To the 56th Pennsylvania Infantry, Colonel J. W. Hofman commanding, belongs the historic honor of firing the first volley on that field.
The skirmishers of Buford's Cavalry were earlier on the field, but were only holding the ground until the infantry
1888.
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