97th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers Memorial (West Chester, PA)
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1887-10-29
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Chester
Pennsylvania
United States
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Erected by the Surviving Members of the Ninety Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers to the Memory of Its Dead. Dedicated October 29, 1887
Field and Staff Officers at the organization of the Regiment, Colonel Henry R. Guss, Lieut. Colonel Augustus P. Duer, Major Galusha Pennypacker, Surgeon John R. Everhart, Assistant Surgeon George W. Miller, Adjutant Henry W. Carruthers, Quarter Master David Jones, Chaplain William Whitehead
Fort Clinch, James Island, Secessionville, Siege of Charleston, Wagner & Gregg, Dury’s Bluff, Green Plains, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Heights, Cemetery Hill, Mine Explosion, Deep Bottom, Charles City Road, Darby Town Road, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Surrender of Johnson
Organized at Camp Everhart and Camp Wayne, West Chester, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1861 Companies, A, B, C, E, F, H, and K, from Chester County, Companies D, G, and I, from Delaware County, Mustered out of Service at Weldon, North Carolina, August 28, 1865
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Surviving Members of the Ninety Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Historical Monument Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=41062
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