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203rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Unit History
Organized at Philadelphia September 10, 1864. Moved to Petersburg, Va., September 22-27. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd
Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 24th Army Corps, to January, 1865.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, Dept. North Carolina, to March, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 10th
Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Detached from Brigade and provost at Deep Bottom, Va., and picket at Malvern Hill September 27-October 5. Rejoined
Brigade October 5. Siege operations against Richmond until December 7. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. Expedition to Fort
Fisher, N. C., December 7-27. 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., January 3-15, 1865. Assault and capture of Fort Fisher
January 15. Advance on Wilmington February 11-22. Sugar Loaf Battery February 11. Fort Anderson February 19 Capture of Wilmington
February 22. Advance on Goldsboro March 6-21. Guard railroad at Faison's Depot March 21-April 10. Advance on Raleigh April
10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh until
June. Mustered out June 22, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 70 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 72 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 146.
Source - "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)
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Lancaster County Pennsylvania in the Civil War
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