11th Pennsylvania Infantry

2d Brigade, 2d Division

(Front):11th Pennsylvania

Infantry.

(Back):Present at Gettysburg

23 officers and 269 men

killed & died of wounds 13 men

wounded 8 officers. 54 men

Captured or missing 57 men

Total 132

Total enrollment 2096

Killed and died of wounds

12 officers. 219 men Total 231

Wounded 43 officers. 729 ...

107th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):107th Penna. Infantry

1st. Brig. 2d. Div.

1st Corps

July 1. The Regiment fought here from 1 p.m. until the Corps retired and then took position on the left of Cemetery Hill. In the evening of the 2d. moved to ...

17th Pennsylvania Cavalry

2d Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps.

(Front):17th Pennsylvania Cavalry

2nd Brigade. 1st Division. Cavalry Corps. Army of the Potomac.

(Back):

The Regiment held this position on the morning of July 1st 1863 from 5 o'clock until the arrival of First Corps troops. The brigade ...

56th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):56th

Penna. Infantry.

2nd Brigade, 1st Division.

1st Corps.The Regiment here delivered the opening fire of the infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg in the forenoon of July 1st, 1863.

July 2nd and 3rd occupied position on Culp's Hill as indicated ...

Pennsylvania Run Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Started by Presbyterian families who came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in the 1780s. The first church was a log structure built in the 1790s. The present church was built in 1840. It is one of few churches that survived from ...

Pennsylvania Canal

Eastern Division

This Division was built, 1826-33; operated until 1901. Here, at old Clark's Ferry Towpath Bridge, the State's great inland canal traffic in iron, coal, and lumber crossed the Susquehanna. Lykens Valley coal trade, by way of Wiconisco Canal, joined ...

125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

(Below Statue):

Color Sergeant

George A. Simpson

Killed at Antietam

(Front Plaque):

125th

Pennsylvania

Volunteer

Infantry

1st Brigade 1st Division

12th Corps

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Recruited in Blair

Huntingdon and Cambria

Counties, Penna.

(Left Plaque):

Moved at early dawn from bivouac on farm of George Line to East Woods near point where Gen. J.K.F. Mansfield was mortally ...

121st Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):121st Penna. Infantry

July 1st 1863

Occupied this position the extreme left of

the Union line. July 2nd & 3rd on Cemetery Ridge.

Present at Gettysburg 11 officers 286 men.

Killed and died of wounds 20 men

Wounded 5 officers 33 men

Captured and ...

Pennsylvania Canal

The rise of Harrisburg's importance and distinction as one of the major transportation centers in the eastern United States was launched on March 14, 1827, by the laying of the cornerstone at the eastern end of Walnut Street downtown for ...

Pennsylvania National Guard Troop Train Accident, September 1950

In the early morning hours of September 11, 1950, Pennsylvania National Guard Troop Train #4, disabled 3/4 mile east of this monument, was struck in the rear by the passenger train, Spirit of St. Louis, resulting in the deaths of ...