48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
military unit
The 48th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the "Schuylkill Regiment", was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry was recruited in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during August and September 1861. It was mustered into federal service there, by detachments, in mid-September. Many members of the regiment had seen prior service in at least three Pennsylvania units which had seen service as 'three-month term of enlistment' organizations - the 6th, 14th, and 25th Pennsylvania Infantry regiments. A large number of men in the regiment had been miners prior to the war.
Initially equipped with smoothbore muskets which had been converted from flintlock to percussion, the regiment was then re-equipped with Enfield rifles in May 1862.
The regiment first saw action on March 14, 1862, when six of its companies took part in the Battle of New Bern, North Carolina. The remainder of the regiment arrived in the area on May 23. The unit then moved to Fort Monroe, Virginia, July 6–8, and on to Fredericksburg August 2–4. At Culpeper, Virginia, on August 13, the 48th Pennsylvania joined the Army of Virginia under General John Pope.
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