4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Mount Gretna, Pa., May 9 and 10 and June 30 to July 6, 1898, with 47 officers and 1,014 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to Second Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps, May 16

• Movements:
  • Left Mount Gretna May 15; arrived at Chickamauga, Ga., May 16
  • Companies I, K, L, and M, which were mustered in June 30 to July 6, arrived at Chickamauga July 2 to 8
  • Regiment left Chickamauga July 22; arrived at Newport News, Va., July 25
  • Sailed from Newport News July 27; arrived at Ponce, Porto Rico, August 2
  • Participated in the Porto Rican campaign until August 13
  • Sailed from Ponce September 1; arrived at New York City September 6, and at Columbia, Pa., September 7
  • Furloughed for sixty days September 7

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Marietta, Reading, Allentown, Columbia, Harrisburg, Pottsville, Pinegrove, Lebanon, and Lancaster, Pa., November 16, 1898, with 45 officers and 1,211 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 3. Enlisted men-died of disease, 32.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps