PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

162nd Pennsylvania Regiment, 17th Cavalry

162nd PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• G. Frank Lidy
• Alexander Morganthall
• Emory Morganthall
• Milton Slick

162nd PA Regiment Companies

• Company H
  Schuylkill / Northumberland Counties
• Regimental History
• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

162nd PA Regiment Books

• The roll of honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One Hundred and Sixty-second of the Line, Pennsylvania Volunteers
  Online at Ancestry.com.

162nd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg September to November, 1862.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., November 25, 1862.
• Attached to Cavalry Brigade, 11th Corps, Army Potomac, to February, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1864,
• And Army Shenandoah to March, 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Camp at East Capital Hill, Defences of Washington, till December, 1862.
• Skirmish at Occoquan, Dumfries, Va., December 19.
• Occoquan December 19-20 and 27-28.
• Frying Pan, near Chantilly, December 29.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Wiggenton's Mills February 6, 1863.
• Kelly's Ford April 28.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 26-May 8.
• Rapidan River April 29.
• Chancellorsville April 30-May 6.
• Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9.
• Upperville June 21.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
• Williamsport, Md., July 6.
• Boonsboro July 8.
• Benevola or Beaver Creek July 9.
• Funkstown July 10-13.
• Falling Water July 14.
• Kelly's Ford July 30-August 1.
• Brandy Station August 1.
• Expedition from Leesburg August 30-September 2.
• Advance to the Rapidan September 13-17.
• Brandy Station and Culpeper Court House September 13.
• Raccoon Ford September 14-16.
• Reconnoissance across the Rapidan September 21-23.
• Jack's Shop, Madison Court House, September 22.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Raccoon Ford and Morton's Ford October 10.
• Stevensburg October 11.
• Near Kelly's Ford October 11.
• Brandy Station or Fleetwood October 12.
• Oak Hill October 15.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
• Parker's Store November 29.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond February 28-March 4.
• Fortifications of Richmond March 1.
• Ashland March 1.
• Reconnoissance to Madison Court House April 28.
• Rapidan Campaign May-June.
• Wilderness May 5-7.
• Brock Road and the Furnaces May 6.
• Todd's Tavern May 7-8.
• Sheridan's Raid to the James River May 9-24.
• North Anna River May 9-10.
• Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern May 11.
• Meadow Bridge May 12.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Hanovertown May 26.
• Hanovertown Ferry and Hanovertown May 27.
• Crump's Creek May 28.
• Haw's Shop May 28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Old Church and Mattadequin Creek May 30.
• Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, May 31-June 1.
• Bottom's Bridge June 1.
• Sheridan's Trevillian Raid June 7-24.
• Trevillian Station June 11-12.
• Newark or Mallory's Cross Roads June 12.
• White House or St. Peter's Church June 21.
• Black Creek or Tunstall Station June 21.
• Baltimore Cross Road, June 22.
• Jones' Bridge June 23.
• Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom July 27-29.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.
• Toll Gate, near White Post, August 11.
• Near Newtown August 11.
• Cedarville, Guard Hill or Front Royal, August 16.
• Summit Point August 21.
• Kearneysville and Shepherdstown August 25.
• Leetown and Smithfield August 28.
• Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan August 29.
• Berryville September 6.
• Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek, September 15.
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Middletown and Strasburg September 20.
• Near Winchester and Smithfield September 24.
• Fisher's Hill September 29 and October 1.
• Newtonia October 11.
• Winchester November 16.
• Expedition from Winchester into Fauquier and Loudoun Counties November 28-December 3.
• Expedition to Gordonsville December 19-28.
• Madison Court House December 21.
• Liberty Mills December 22.
• Near Gordonsville December 23.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Sheridan's Expedition from Winchester February 27-March 25, 1865.
• Occupation of Staunton March 2.
• Waynesboro March 2.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Dinwiddie Court House March 30-31.
• Five Forks April 1.
• Scott's Cross Roads April 2.
• Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek April 4.
• Sailor's Creek April 6.
• Appomattox Station April 8.
• Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• Expedition to Danville April 23-29.
• March to Washington, D.C., May.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Consolidated with 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 2nd Provisional Cavalry June 17, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 98 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 128 Enlisted men by disease. Total 232.

162nd PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• BONEBRAKE, HENRY G. Lieutenant, Company G, 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Birth: Waynesboro, Pa. Citation: At Five Forks, Va., 1 April 1865. As 1 of the first of Devin's Division to enter the works, he fought in a hand-to-hand struggle with a Confederate to capture his flag by superior physical strength. Date of issue: 3 May 1865.