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Appendix: Service of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry
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Appendix Service of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry Organization Organized at Philadelphia, December 1861 to April 1862 Ordered to Washington, D.C., April 1862 Attached to the Military District of Washington until September 1862 Fourth Brigade, Pleasanton’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, until October 1862 Averill’s Cavalry Command, Eighth Army Corps, Middle Department, until November 1862 Defended the upper Potomac, Eighth Corps, until February 1863 Adapted from Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion 2: 1563–64. Appendix 126 First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Corps, until June 1863 Pierce’s Brigade, Department of the Susquehanna, until July 1863 McReynold’s Command, Department of the Susquehanna, until August 1863 Service Duty at Washington, D.C., until June 20, 1862 Moved to Manassas Junction, Virginia, and guarded the Orange and Alexander Railroad until August Moved to Bristoe and thence to Alexandria; picketed the north bank of the Potomac from Chain Bridge to Edward’s Ferry until September Maryland campaign, September to October Frederick, Maryland, September 12 Battle of Antietam, Maryland, September 16–17 Assigned to duty on a line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, headquarters at Sir John’s Run, Bath, (West) Virginia Martinsburg, November 6 Moorefield, November 9 Newtown, November 24 Kearneysville, December 26 Bunker Hill, January 1, 1863 Near Smithfield and Charles Town, February 12 Mill Wood Road near Winchester, April 8 Reconnaissance from Winchester to Wardensville and Strasburg, April 20 Operations in the Shenandoah Valley, April 22–29 Strasburg Road, Fisher’s Hill, April 22 Scout to Strasburg, April 25–30 Cedarville and Winchester, June 12 Winchester, June 13–15 McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, June 24 Cunningham’s Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, July 5 Greencastle, Pennsylvania, July 5 (detachment) Near Clear Springs, Maryland, July 10 Moved to Sharpsburg, Maryland, and thence to Martinsburg, August 3; duty there until July 1864 Jeffersonton, October 10, 1863 Near Winchester, February 5, 1864 [54.196.105.235] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 05:58 GMT) Appendix 127 Middletown, February 6 Winchester, April 26 Affair in Loudoun County, June 9 (detachment) Charles Town and Duffield Station (or Duffield’s Depot), June 29 Bolivar Heights, July 2 Near Hillsboro, July 15–16 Charles Town, July 17 Snicker’s Ferry, July 17–18 Ashby’s Gap and Berry’s Ford, July 19 Near Kernstown, July 23 Winchester, July 24 Bunker Hill and Martinsburg, July 25 Cherry Run, July 28 Winchester, July 29 Guard and garrison duty at Charles Town, covering the railroad from Harpers Ferry to Winchester until March 1865 Charles Town, September 27, 1864 Halltown, November 12 Mount Zion Church, November 12 Newtown, November 24 Charles Town, November 29 (detachment) Affair at Harpers Ferry, February 3, 1865 (detachment) Scout from Harpers Ferry into Loudoun County, March 20–23 Near Hamilton, March 21 Goose Creek, March 23 Duty at Winchester and in the Shenandoah Valley until July Mustered out July 20, 1865 Regiment lost during service 2 officers and 32 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 107 enlisted men by disease. Total 142. ...