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184th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited across the state of Pennsylvania.


184th PA Regiment Companies




184th Regiment Prisoners of War

  • POWs
    Schuylkill County



184th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

    Organization
  • Organized at Harrisburg May, 1864.
  • Ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field, and reported May 28, 1864.
  • Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
    Service & Battles - 1864
  • Rapidan (Va.) Campaign May 28-June 12.
  • Totopotomoy May 28-31.
  • Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18.
  • Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
  • Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23, 1864.
  • Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom July 27-29.
  • Deep Bottom July 27-28.
  • Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30 (Reserve).
  • Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20.
  • Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18.
  • Ream's Station August 25.
  • Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
  • Reconnoissance to Hatcher's Run December 9-10.
    Service & Battles - 1865
  • Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
  • Watkins' House March 25.
  • Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
  • Boydton and White Oak Roads March 30-31.
  • Crow's House March 31.
  • Sailor's Creek April 6.
  • High Bridge and Farmville April 7.
  • Appomattox Court House April 9.
  • Surrender of Lee and his army.
  • March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12.
  • Grand Review May 23.
  • Mustered out July 14, 1865.
    Regimental Losses
  • Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 110 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 122 Enlisted men by disease. Total 235.



184th Regiment Execution

  • Wert, Michael Jan 6, 1865 Firing Squad for Desertion