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.
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. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' V Corps, to April 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, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863, and Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 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.
The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out July 18, 1865.
Moved to Baltimore, Md., and Harpers Ferry, Va., July 27. 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. Pritchard's Mills, Va., September 15 (Companies B, D, & I). Point of Rocks September 24. Knoxville October 2. Bolivar Heights October 16 (Companies A, D, F, & G). Nolan's Ferry October 30. Berlin November 10. Point of Rocks December 19. Crossed Potomac February 24âÂÂ25. Operations in Loudon County, Va., February 25 â May 6. Occupation of Bolivar Heights February 26. Lovettsville March 1. Wheatland March 7. Occupation of Leesburg March 8. Upperville March 14. Ashby's Gap March 15. Capture of Rectortown, Piedmont, Markham, Linden, and Front Royal March 15âÂÂ20. Operations about Middleburg and White Plains March 27âÂÂ28. Thoroughfare Gap April 2. Warrenton April 6. Near Piedmont April 14. Linden May 15 (Company O). Reconnaissance from Front Royal to Browntown May 24. Guard railroad from White Plains to Manassas until May 24, and railroad and gaps of the Blue Ridge until June 23. Joined Banks at Middletown June 29. Reconnaissance to Thoroughfare Mountain August 9. Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 16 â September 2. White Sulphur Springs August 24. Second Battle of Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6âÂÂ24. Battle of Antietam September 16âÂÂ17. Duty at Bolivar Heights until December. Reconnaissance to Lovettsville October 21. Companies L, M, N, and O transferred to 147th Pennsylvania Infantry October 28. Reconnaissance to Ripon, Va., November 9. Reconnaissance to Winchester December 2âÂÂ6. Moved to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10âÂÂ14. At Stafford Court House until April 27, 1863. "Mud March" January 20âÂÂ24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27 â May 6. Old Wilderness Tavern April 30. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1âÂÂ5. Gettysburg Campaign June 11 â July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1âÂÂ3. Fair Play, Md., July 13. Duty on line of the Rapidan until September. Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24 â October 3. Reopening Tennessee River October 26âÂÂ29. Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28âÂÂ29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23âÂÂ27. Battle of Lookout Mountain November 23âÂÂ24. Battle of Missionary Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge November 27. Guard duty on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad until April 1864. Regiment reenlisted December 24, 1863. Veterans on furlough January and February 1864. Expedition down the Tennessee River to Triana April 12âÂÂ16. Atlanta Campaign May 1 â September 8. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 5âÂÂ13. Dug Gap, or Mill Springs, May 8. Battle of Resaca May 14âÂÂ15. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22âÂÂ25. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills, May 25 â June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 â July 2. Pine Hill June 11âÂÂ14. Lost Mountain June 15âÂÂ17. Gilgal, or Golgotha Church, June 15. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5âÂÂ17. Peach Tree Creek July 19âÂÂ20. Siege of Atlanta July 22 â August 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26 â September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2 â November 15. Whitehall Road, near Atlanta, November 9. March to the sea November 15 â December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10âÂÂ21. Carolinas Campaign January to April 1865. North Edisto, S.C., February 12âÂÂ13. Red Bank Creek February 15. Congaree Creek February 15. Averysboro, N.C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19âÂÂ21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 9âÂÂ13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29 â May 20. Grand Review of the Armies May 24. Duty in the Department of Washington until July.
The regiment lost a total of 284 men during service; 6 officers and 151 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 124 enlisted men died of disease.