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179th Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Philadelphia and Harrisburg October 23 to December 6, 1862.

Ordered to Fortress Monroe, Va., December, 1862.

Attached to Busteed's Independent Brigade, 4th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to April, 1863.

West's Independent Brigade, 4th Corps, to June, 1863.

King's Independent Brigade, 4th Corps, to July, 1863.

2nd Brigade, King's Division, 22nd Corps, to July, 1863.

Service.

Duty at Yorktown, Va., and on the Peninsula, Va., till July, 1863.

Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 24-July 7.

Expedition from White House to Bottom's Bridge July 1-7.

Skirmish at Baltimore Cross Roads July 2.

Ordered to Washington, D. C., July 8; thence to Harrisburg, and mustered out July 27, 1863.

Regiment lost during service 6 by disease.

1908.

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