28th Pa. Infantry

Regiment organized in 1861 with men from Philadelphia and Luzerne, Westmoreland, Carbon, Northampton, Allegheny and Huntingdon Counties. Became known as 'the Goldstream Regiment.' Part of the Army of Virginia, Army of the Potomac (XII Corps), Army of the Cumberland. Involved in 19 combat engagements including Second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Sherman's March to the Sea, Carolinas Campaign. Lost 284 enlisted men and officers to injuries or disease. Regiment mustered out July 1865. 24 of its men went through Camp Discharge, 12 of them ex-POWs.

24 Men at Camp Discharge

• Pvt. Jackson Anderson, Company B POW
• Sgt. George T. Barnes, Company D
• Pvt. George Cartwright, Company F
• Pvt. George Curtis, Company E POW
• Pvt. John A. Ferguson, Company D
• Pvt. Thomas Flinn, Company D POW
• Pvt. William H. Gabriel, Company C
• Sgt. David F. Ghrist, Company B POW
• Pvt. Peter Keely, Company H POW
• Pvt. Tilman F. Layman, Company B POW
• Pvt. Henry Martin, Company B POW
• Pvt. William McDonald, Company I POW
• Pvt. Charles Neale, Company E POW
• Pvt. William H. Nicholas, Company I POW
• Pvt. John Ribble Jr., Company D
• Pvt. John Shriver, Company A
• Pvt. John Smith, Company I
• Pvt. William H. Thomas, Company E
• Pvt. George Townsend, Company C
• Pvt. John Walsh, Company E POW
• Pvt. Thomas Watt, Company C
• Pvt. John Welsh, Company G
• Pvt. Charles Wright, Company C
• Pvt. Montreville Young, Company K POW

POW Held as a Confederate prisoner of war
POW/A Held at Andersonville prison, Georgia