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51st Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Harrisburg November 16, 1861.

Left State for Annapolis, Md., November 16.

Attached to Reno's Brigade, Burnside's North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to July, 1862.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1863: Army of the Ohio to June, 1863; Army of the Tennessee to August, 1863, and Army of the Ohio to April, 1864.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1864.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

Service.

Duty at Annapolis till January 9, 1862.

Burnside's Expedition to Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island, N. C., January 9-February 8.

Battle of Roanoke Island February 8.

Moved to New Berne March 11-13.

Battle of New Berne March 14.

Expedition to Pollocksville March 21-22.

Expedition to Elizabeth City April 17-19.

Camden, South Mills, April 19.

Duty at New Berne till July.

Moved to Newport News, Va., July 6-9, thence to Fredericksburg August 2-4.

March to relief of Pope August 12-15.

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2.

Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1; Maryland Campaign September 6-24.

Battle of South Mountain September 14.

Antietam September 16-17.

Duty at Pleasant Valley till October 27.

Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 27-November 19.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

Burnside's second Campaign. “Mud March” January 20-24, 1863.

Moved to Newport News February 19, thence to Covington and Paris, Ky., March 26-April 1.

Moved to Mount Sterling April 3, to Lancaster May 6-7 and to Crab Orchard May 23.

Movement to Vicksburg, Miss., June 3-17.

Siege of Vicksburg June 17-July 4.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

At Milldale till August 6.

Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6-20.

Duty in Kentucky till October.

Operations in East Tennessee till November 14.

Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23.

Campbell's Station November 16.

Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 4.

Pursuit of Longstreet December 5-29.

Regiment re-enlisted January 1, 1864, and on Veteran furlough January 11-March 9.

At Annapolis, Md., till April 23.

Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Ny River May 9; Spottsylvania C. H. May 12-21.

Assault on the Salient May 12.

North Anna River May 23-26.

Ox Ford May 24.

Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Bethesda Church June 1-3.

Before Petersburg June 16-18.

Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864.

Weldon Railroad August 18-21.

Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm, September 29-October 2.

Reconnoissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Road October 8.

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.

Fort Stedman March 25, 1865.

Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.

Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.

Pursuit of Lee to Farmville.

Moved to City Point, thence to Alexandria April 20-28.

Grand Review May 23.

Duty at Washington and Alexandria till July.

Mustered out July 27, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 12 Officers and 165 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 137 Enlisted men by disease. Total 314.

1908.

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