PENNSYLVANIA TWO HUNDRED and SECOND INFANTRY (One Year)

Two Hundred and Second Infantry. Col., Charles Albright; Lieut.-Col., John A. Maus; Maj., Walter H. Seip. This regiment from the counties of Carbon, Juniata, Adams, Northumberland, Lehigh, Northampton, Cumberland; Union and Huntingdon, was mustered into the U. S. service at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, during the last week of August and the first week of Sept., 1864, for a term of one year. Col. Albright had served as colonel of the 132nd infantry and a few of the other officers and men had been in the service. The regiment did not join the army at the front, but was employed during most of its term in the laborious but non-heroic duty of guarding railroads. Its first post of duty was on the Manassas Gap railroad from Thoroughfare gap to Rectortown. On the conclusion of Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley it retired to Alexandria and guarded the Orange & Alexandria railroad from Bull Run to Alexandria, with headquarters at Fairfax Station. Near the end of May, 1865, it was ordered to Philadelphia, whence it was sent into the anthracite coal regions of the state, with headquarters at Tamaqua, and served by detachments at various points, Col. Albright, who had been brevetted brigadier-general, being placed in command of the district. At the end of July, the regiment assembled in Harrisburg, where it was mustered out an Aug. 3, 1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 1

Pennsylvania 202nd Volunteer Infantry (Union)

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