125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

The 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, recruited in Blair, Huntingdon, and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania, served in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps. At early dawn on September 17, 1862, it moved from bivouac on the farm of George Line to the East Woods near the point where Gen. J.K.F. Mansfield was mortally wounded, then went to support Monroe's First Rhode Island Battery on Smoketown Road, and then entered the woods that stood here. It was the first Union regiment there, and because it was far advanced and without sufficient support, the enemy outflanked it and it retired behind batteries in a field to the rear. It subsequently saved the guns of Monroe's Battery from capture and remained in line until the close of battle. At Antietam, its losses were 54 killed and died of wounds, 91 seriously wounded, 84 slightly wounded and not reported, for a total of 229.

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