Federal Regiment

28th Pennsylvania Infantry

"Goldstream Regiment"
Organized: Philadelphia, PA; mustered in 6/28/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Washington, DC 7/18/1865

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Maj. Ario Pardee, Jr.

Arms:
Enfield Rifle

"The arms were the Enfield rifle with the formidable sword bayonet.
These were obtained of a firm in Philadelphia, who fortunately had them for sale,
else the regiment would have been armed with the ordinary musket,
altered from the flint to percussion lock,
many of which were in possession of the government."
(from Bates)

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Twelfth Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 12th Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Corps

Unit history

"Early in June of 1861, John W, Geary obtained permission from President Lincoln to raise, in Pennsylvania, a regiment of volmteers to serve for three yeurs; He accordingly estabished a camp at Oxford Park, in Philadelphia, and on the 28th of that month the Twenty-eighth Regiment, which was uniformed and equipped at his own expense, was being mustered into the service of the United States. The regiment, when completed, consisted of fifteen companies, numbering fifteen hundred and fifty-one officers and men ..."

"From surplus recruits a battery was formed and attached to the regiment, which was known as Knap's Battery of the Twenty-eighth Penasylvania Volunteers. Mr. Charles Knap, of Pittsburg, presented this company with four steel guns, which were subsequently exchanged by the government for six ten-pounder Parrotts. Also connected with the regiment was Beck's celebrated Philadelphia Brass Band."
(from Bates)

Assigned to the Deptartment of the Shenandoah, the Regiment operated in Northern Virginia, around Harpers Ferry, and in the Valley through the summer of 1862. They were then on General Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia, seeing combat at 2nd Bull Run. They joined the Army of the Potomac, at the start of the Maryland Campaign, in September 1862 along with the rest of the XII (formerly Banks') Corps.

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)
Detail Map #10: Confederate Counterattacks in the Center (11 am-1 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #48: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 12 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #27: Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #50: Tyndale's Brigade, Greene's Division - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #117: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #51: Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #53: Tyndale's Brigade, Greene's Division - 17 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM

After the Antietam Campaign

They continued in service with the Army of the Potomac through Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, then served with the Corps in Georgia, Tennessee, and on the Carolina Campaign. The Regiment had reenlisted December 24, 1863, and veterans were furloughed during January and February 1864.

References & Notes

Sources: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Co., 1908; and
Bates, Samuel P., History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: 1868-1871, extracted online at Pennsylvania in the Civil War by Alice J. Gayley.

We have 161 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Beahm, Jesse	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Claywell, Reuben	KIA 09/17
A	Capt	Fitzpatrick, James C.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Furry, Charles	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Horn, William	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Kunkle, Andrew	KIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Lockhart, John B.	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Maloney, John	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McCurley, James D.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McKechney, Alexander	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Quinn, Patrick	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Sonn, Joseph	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Yost, Samuel R.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Armor, William C.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Austin, Morrison	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Borlin, Albert	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Boyd, Lester W.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Brown, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Clair, Jesse	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Cronemay, Simon	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Dunsmore, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Eicher, Jacob M.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Evans, Walter	MWIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Ghrist, John S.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hough, William G.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Jordan, Charles C.	WIA 09/17
B	Capt	Jordan, William M.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Kessler, Andrew J.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	King, Eli W.	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Kough, Archibald M.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Lemon, Thomas H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Longsduf, David J.	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Markle, Joseph C.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Martin, Abraham	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Mechling, Benjamin F.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Metzler, James	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Morrison, Austin	Died (d) 11/02
B	Pvt	Overholt, Abraham F.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Overholt, George W.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Reese, Henry	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Rumbaugh, Isaac	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Shuler, Jacob R.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Smith, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Snyder, James	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Snyder, William S.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Steck, Samuel R.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Steiner, Sylvester	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Studebaker, Jacob	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Thomas, William R.	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Walker, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	White, Harrison	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Wright, William	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Zuck, Jacob R.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Anker, Herman	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Boeckle, Richard	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Callihan, James	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Green, William	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Keefe, Owen	KIA 09/17
C	Capt	Laws, Peter F.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Refior, Henry	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Reynolds, Emmor	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Sloan, George	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Smith, James C.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Wonderley, Charles E.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ashton, William Harrison	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Carter, William	Died (d) 11/18
D	Pvt	Corrigan, Hugh	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Davis, Robert G.	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Hayward, Ambrose Henry
D	Corp	Orth, Jacob George	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Raines, Edward	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Ritter, George J.	KIA 09/17
E	Corp	Beers, Jr., Jacob	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Boyle, Edward	WIA 00/00
E	Pvt	Brennan, Richard	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Burns, Patrick	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Campbell, John	MIA (r) 09/17
E	Capt	Chapman, Lansford F.	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Laurish, Simon F.	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Lynch, James	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Nuss, Jacob	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Rawley, Harrison	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Walker, John J.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Whittingham, A.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Baumgardner, Edward	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Beer, Thomas	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Jones, Watkins	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Keister, Alfred L.	Died (d) 11/28
F	Pvt	Kelly, John	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	McCloskey, Thomas	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	McMullen, Alexander J.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Parker, John A.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Watt, Edward F.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Augdale, William	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bryan, Benjamin	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Grady, George	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hard, James	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Richey, William C.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Sherman, Moses	MWIA 09/17
G	Corp	Tracy, John D.	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Traville, James B.	KIA 09/17
H	Corp	Marshall, James	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Martigney, Leon D.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Merriman, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Stribig, Joseph	KIA 09/17
H	Corp	Yoest, Charles	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Borbridge, Charles W.
I	Pvt	Broadhurst, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hackett, Andrew	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Rofe, William	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bastin, John	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bates, George	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Boyers, Josiah	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Haines, George	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Madden, James	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	McCleary, Hugh	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Blackhead, Adam	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Marshall, John	KIA 09/17
L	Corp	Penn, George	KIA 09/17
L	Corp	Robb, Leander A.	WIA 09/17
L	Sgt	Smith, Robert R.	MWIA 09/17
M	Corp	Baer, James	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Bakencamp, Charles B.	WIA 09/17
M	Sgt	Black, William H.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	McCurdy, James	MWIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Schaffer, Lewis	MIA (n) 09/17
N	Pvt	Carpenter, Jesse B.	WIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Dowda, Robert O.	KIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Edinger, William A.	MWIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Hamilton, James	KIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Hoover, John	KIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Hughes, George	KIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Knappenberger, Charles	MWIA 09/17
N	Corp	Lindsey, Joseph H.	WIA 09/17
N	Pvt	McCormick, John	MWIA 09/17
N	Corp	O'Connor, John	WIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Williams, August	WIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Barber, Alexander R.	AWOL 09/18
O	Pvt	Cannon, Thomas	MWIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Cedars, Joseph	AWOL 09/18
O	Pvt	Davis, James W.	WIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Duffy, John P.	WIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Johns, Jesse	KIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Klepser, Andrew J.	KIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Lamp, David	KIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Morningstar, John	MWIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Turley, Hugh	WIA 09/17
O	Pvt	Williams, Richard	MWIA 09/14
P	Pvt	Ayres, George W.	WIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Babcock, Peter J.	WIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Barnard, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
P	Sgt	Batton, William H.	WIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Coggins, Edward H.	MWIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Costello, Charles	MWIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Flood, Edward	KIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Hart, Thomas	KIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Hoffman, Gustavus A.	KIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Mullen, Robert M.	KIA 09/17
P	Pvt	Sloanaker, George W.	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Pardee, Jr, Ariovistus
F&S	Maj	Raphael, William

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