28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (aka Goldstream Regiment) was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

It was noted for its holding the high ground at the center of the line at Antietam as part of Tyndale's 1st Brigade, Greene's 2nd Division of Mansfield's XII Corps.

[1] The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a three-year enlistment and mustered on June 28, 1861, under the command of Colonel John W. Geary.

(Unusually, the regiment initially contained fifteen companies.)

The regiment was attached to George H. Thomas' Brigade, Department of the Shenandoah, to August 1861.

1st Brigade, Banks' Division, Department of the Shenandoah, to October 1861.

Geary's Independent Brigade, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862.

Geary's Independent Brigade, Department of the Shenandoah, to June 1862.

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to August 1862.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to September 1862.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June 1865.

3rd Brigade, Bartlett's Division, XXII Corps, Department of Washington, to July 1865.

Duty at Sandy Hook, opposite Harpers Ferry, until August 13, 1861.

Moved to Point of Rocks, Md., and guard frontier from Nolan's Ferry to Antietam Aqueduct.

Capture of Rectortown, Piedmont, Markham, Linden, and Front Royal March 15–20.

Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 16 – September 2.

Companies L, M, N, and O transferred to 147th Pennsylvania Infantry October 28.

Guard duty on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad until April 1864.

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills, May 25 – June 5.

Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 – July 2.

Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground July 4.

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26 – September 2.