121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

The 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers served in the Army of the Potomac after being called into service by President Lincoln on September 1st 1862, beginning its combat record with the Battle of Fredericksburg and participating in all the army’s engagements until it was mustered out on June 2nd 1865. At Gettysburg on July 1st 1863, under Col. Chapman Biddle as brigade commander and Maj. Alexander Biddle commanding the regiment, it held the extreme left of the Union line on the first day facing west, then occupied Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd and 3rd. Of the 7 officers and 258 enlisted men engaged, casualties totaled 179, including 12 enlisted men killed, 5 officers and 101 enlisted men wounded, and 1 officer and 60 enlisted men captured or missing.

Pennsylvania · United States