5th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

1861
April 20	Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, under Colonel R.P. McDowell, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin C. Crist and Major R. Bruce Petriken
April 21	Moved by rail toward Baltimore, but returned to Harrisburg, and then moved to Philadelphia
April 22	Arrived in Philadelphia
April 23	To Perryville and Annapolis, Md.
April 26	To Annapolis Junction. The train that was to have taken the regiment there had been derailed, and the regiment was forced to proceed on foot
April 27	To Washington, D.C. Visited by President Lincoln and Secretary Seward.
May 7	The regiment received uniforms from the state.
May 28	At Alexandria, Va.
June 3	Moved to Shutter's Hill. Attached to Franklin's Bde. McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia and duty at Alexandria
July 20	Left for Harrisburg
July 25	Mustered out