151st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry | |
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Active | October 24, 1862 – July 27, 1863 |
Country | United States |
Allegiance | Union |
Branch | Infantry |
Equipment | Springfield Model 1842 (issued at muster-in, Fall 1862) Springfield Model 1861 (issued Winter 1862-63) |
Engagements | Battle of Chancellorsville Battle of Gettysburg |
The 151st Pennsylvania Infantry was a Union Army regiment serving for a term of nine months during the American Civil War. The regiment sustained seventy-six percent casualties in the Battle of Gettysburg, its only major engagement.
Following the war, it also became known as "The Schoolteachers' Regiment" due to the war-time enrollment of at least sixty teachers in the regiment.[1]