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The 58th Pennsylvania was recruited during August and September 1861. The Army had originally planned to raise an additional regiment, the 114th, but failed to raise the required number of men. The companies were from the following
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History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.
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In early March, the regiment was sent to Fort Monroe. On May 10, it was attached to a force sent to capture
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on September 28, 1864, where it lost six officers and 128 enlisted men.
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Company I Luzerne and Northumberland Counties – Captained by John Buyers
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Company F McKean, Erie, and Tioga Counties – Captained by
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Company E McKean, Erie, and Tioga Counties – Captained by
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Captured or missing: ? officers, ? enlisted men
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Units and formations of the Union Army from Pennsylvania
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Killed and mortally wounded: 6 officers, 68 enlisted men
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In late April 1864, the regiment was reassigned to the
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A group portraying the 58th Pennsylvania is based in
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1866
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58th Pennsylvania Infantry

United States
Union
Infantry
Battle of Drewry's Bluff
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Chaffin's Farm
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Theodore Blakeley
Daniel Linn
Newton R. Bunker
John C. Backus
Philetus M. Fuller
Lucius Rogers
John M. Collins
Olney V. Cotter
Asa Howe Cory
Cecil Clay
colonel
lieutenant colonel
major
Norfolk, Virginia
South Carolina
Kinston, North Carolina
North Carolina
Army of the James

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