👉Civil War 188TH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY Cover BYRON F DAVIS 1ST LT ADJ

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Civil War
188TH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY
Cover
BYRON F DAVIS 1ST LT ADJ
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Byron F. Davis
Adjutant
January 19, 1863
Promoted from 1st Lieutenant Company C, September 13, 1864; mustered out with Regiment, December 14, 1865
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188th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 188th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 10 officers and 114 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 66 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864
April 1
Organized at Fortress Monroe, Va. from
3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
under Lt. Colonel George K. Bowen and Major Francis H. Reichard
April 25
Moved from Camp Hamilton, Va., to Yorktown. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina
May 4-28
Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va.
May 9-10
Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church
May 12-16
Proctor’s Creek and operations against Fort Darling
May 14-16
Battle of Drewry’s Bluff
The regiment lost 11 killed and 60 wounded, including Captain Hiram I. Shinkle, who was mortally wounded and captured.
May 16-28
On Bermuda Hundred front
May 28-June 1
Moved to White House, then to Cold Harbor
June 1-12
Battles of Cold Harbor
The regiment lost 24 killed and a large number of wounded, including Major Reichard, Captain Herman C. Moeller and Lieutenants William Dieterlie, Adam W. Mattice, and Ernest Schmidt, who were wounded, and Captain Harry E. Breel, who was mortally wounded.
June 15-18
Before Petersburg
June 16
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond
The regiment lost eighty casualties during two months in the trenches, including Lieutenants Charles Stark and George B. Sherbon, who were both killed.
June 24 and 28
Hare’s Hill
July-September
In trenches before Petersburg
July 30
Mine Explosion, Petersburg
(Reserve)
September 28-30
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights
, north of the James
The regiment lost around 60 killed and one hundred wounded, including Captain Henry B. Dickson, who was in command, and Lieutenant John Carson.
October 27-28
Battle of Fair Oaks, near Richmond
November-March
Duty in trenches before Richmond
December
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
1865
March 5-8
Expedition up the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg and destruction of large quantities of tobacco and stores
March 11-13
Expedition from Fort Monroe into Westmoreland County. March to Signal Hill before Richmond.
April 3
Occupation of Richmond
April-December
Guard and provost duty at Lynchburg and in Central Virginia
June 28
Consolidated with
199th Pennsylvania Infantry
under its Colonel James C. Brisco, with the 188th’s Lt. Colonel Givern as second in command.
July
Attached to 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps
December 14
Mustered out at City Point, Va.
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