143rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
Union Army infantry regiment
The 143rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and mustered in for a three year enlistment on October 18, 1862 under the command of Colonel Edmund Lovell Dana.
The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, Defenses of Washington, north of the Potomac River, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, to March 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, V Corps, to June 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, V Corps, to September 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, V Corps, to February 1865. Hart's Island, New York Harbor, Department of the East, to June 1865.
The 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out June 12, 1865.
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