1st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

1st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Mount Gretna, Pa., May 10 and 11, 1898, with 40 officers and 754 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to Third Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps, May 19

• Movements:
  • Left Mount Gretna May 16; arrived at Chickamauga, Ga., May 19
  • Changed station from Chickamauga to Knoxville, Tenn., August 29
  • Left Knoxville September 14; arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., September 16
  • Furloughed for thirty days September 17

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Philadelphia, Pa., October 26, 1898, with 41 officers and 992 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers died of disease, 1. Enlisted men-died of disease, 11; killed by accident, 1; deserted, 8.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps