PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

139th Pennsylvania Regiment

139th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Salem Rupert

139th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

139th PA Regiment Soldier Books

• The road to Cold Harbor:
  Field diary, January 1-June 12, 1864 of Samuel C. Schoyer, captain, Company G, 139th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment : supplemented ... offices and a brief history of the regiment
  
  
• The crack regiment of Pittsburgh: the men and the community of the 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1860-1865
  

139th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg September 1, 1862.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., September 1-3.
• Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps,
• Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps,
• Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, to January, 1864.
• Wheaton's Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia, to March, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and
• Army of the Shenandoah to June, 1865

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Bury dead at Bull Run, Va., September 4-7, 1862.
• Maryland Campaign September 7-24.
• Battle of Antietam September 16-17 (Reserve).
• At Downsville September 23-October 20.
• Movement to Stafford Court House October 20-November 18, and to Belle Plains December 5.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
• 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.
• Duty on line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan till October.
• 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

• At Harper's Ferry till March, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-21.
• 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.
• Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23.
• Siege of Petersburg to July 9.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., July 9-11.
• Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12.
• Pursuit to Snicker's Gap July 14-24.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December.
• Near Strasburg August 13.
• Near Charlestown August 21-22.
• Demonstration on Gilbert's Ford, Opequan, September 13.
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Strasburg September 21.
• Fisher's Hill September 22.
• Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.
• Duty in the Shenandoah Valley till December.
• Moved to Petersburg, Va., December 9-12.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Siege of Petersburg December, 1864, to April, 1865.
• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.
• Sailor's Creek April 6.
• Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• March to Danville April 23-27, and duty there till May 23.
• March to Richmond, Va., thence to Washington, D.C., May 23-June 3.
• Corps Review June 8.
• Mustered out June 21, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 10 Officers and 135 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 86 Enlisted men by disease.Total 236.