125th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The 125th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 2 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 39 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

It is honored by a monument at Antietam.

Monument to the 125th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at Antietam

1862
August	Recruited in Blair, Huntingdon and Cambria Counties and organized at Harrisburg for nine months service.
August 16	Left State for Washington, D.C. and duty in its Defenses
September 6,	March to Rockville, Md. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 16-17	Battle of Antietam From the monument: "Color Sergeant George A. Simpson, Killed at Antietam Moved at early dawn from bivouac on farm of George Line to East Woods near point where Gen. J.K.F. Mansfield was mortally wounded, from there to support Monroe's First Rhode Island Battery on Smoketown Road, then to woods that stood here September 17, 1862, was the first Union Regiment therein. Being far advanced and without sufficient support, it was outflanked by the enemy and retired behind batteries in field in rear and subsequently saved the guns of Monroe's Battery from capture. Remained in line until close of battle. Monument is near the left of its main line of battle. The regiment lost 54 killed, 91 seriously wounded and 84 slightly wounded.
September 19-20	March to Pleasant Valley
October	At Maryland Heights, attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps
October 30	At Loudon Heights
November 8-19	Reconnaissance up the Shenandoah Valley
November	Near Harper's Ferry
December 10-15	March to Fredericksburg, then to Fairfax Station.
1863
January	Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps
January 20-24	Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March"
February-April	At Stafford Court House, Va.
April 27-May 6	Chancellorsville Campaign
May 1-5	Battle of Chancellorsville
May 18	Mustered out