PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

119th Regiment - The Gray Reserves

119th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

119th PA Regiment Books

• Rough and Regular: A History of Philadelphia's 119th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry : The Gray Reserves

119th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia August 15, 1862.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., August 31-September 1.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington till October.
• Joined Army of the Potomac in the field and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Army of the Shenandoah to June, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty at Hagerstown, Md., till October 29, 1862.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 29-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At White Oak Church till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
• Bernard House April 29. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
• Salem Heights May 3-4. Banks' Ford May 4.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 13-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg July 2-4.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• At and near Funkstown, Md., July 10-13.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Rappahannock Station November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty near Brandy Station till May, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Before Petersburg June 17-18.
• Weldon Railroad June 22-23.
• Siege of Petersburg till July 9.
• Moved to Washington, D. C, July 9-11.
• Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12.
• Pursuit of Early July 14-22.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December.
• Demonstration on Gilbert's Ford, Opequan, September 13.
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Duty in the Shenandoah Valley till December.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Moved to Petersburg, Va. Siege of Petersburg December, 1864, to April, 1865.
• Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• Moved to Danville April 23-27,
• And duty there till May 23.
• Moved to Richmond, thence to Washington May 23-June 3.
• Corps Review June 8.
• Mustered out June 19, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 9 Officers and 132 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 71 Enlisted men by disease. Total 213.