The regiment was raised during August and September 1861 from companies raised in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Berks counties by Richard H. Rush, who had been authorized to do so by Governor Curtin.
His paternal grandfather, who came to America at the age of 14, was a member of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War.
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