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133rd Pennsylvania Infantry

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133rd Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 4 by Samuel P Bates, 1869     View Entire Book

Regimental History
One Hundred and Thirty-third Infantry. — Col, Franklin B. Speakman ; Lieut.-Cols., Abraham Kopelin, W. A. McCartney; Maj., Edward M. Schrock. The 133d regiment, composed of men from the counties of Cambria, Perry, Bedford and Somerset, rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, and was mustered into the U. S. service for nine months by companies, from Aug. 5 to 15, 1862. It left for Washington on the 19th and during the progress of the second Bull Run battle and for two weeks thereafter, it was posted at Fort Ward on picket duty and building intrenchments. It was brigaded with the 123d, 131st, 134th and 155th Pa. regiments, under Col. Allabach of the 131st, and attached to Humphreys' division, 5th corps. It arrived on the field of Antietam the day after the battle; encamped near Sharpsburg until the close of October; moved thence to Falmouth ; and lost severely at the battle of Fredericksburg in charging the works on Marye's heights, where its casualties were 184, killed, wounded and missing, including 3 officers killed and 8 wounded. With the exception of the "Mud March" in Jan., 1863, it remained in Camp Humphreys until it moved on the Chancellorsville campaign. It was actively engaged on the third day of that battle, losing 1 killed and 9 wounded. Its term having expired it soon after left for Harrisburg, where it was mustered out, May 21-26, 1863.

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

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