151st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

151st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Photograph of the 151st Pennsylvania's regimental colors, courtesy of Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee
ActiveOctober 24, 1862 – July 27, 1863
Country United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EquipmentSpringfield Model 1842 (issued at muster-in, Fall 1862)
Springfield Model 1861 (issued Winter 1862-63)
EngagementsBattle 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]

  1. ^ Dreese, 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers, p. 5