The Civil War in the East

3rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

1861

April 18

Company G was the first Company to enter Camp Curtin.

April 20

Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel Francis P. Minier, Lieutenant Colonel John M. Power and Major Oliver M. Irvine

April 20

Moved to Cockeysville, Md., then to York, Pa and duty there

May 27

to Chambersburg. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Patterson's Army

June 7

Funkstown

July 1

Marched to Williamsport

July 2

Crossed the Potomac

July 3

Occupation of Martinsburg, Va.

July 4-26

Detached from Brigade and on duty at Williamsport

July 27

Marched to Hagerstown, then by rail to Harrisburg

July 29

Mustered out