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184th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited across the state of Pennsylvania.

184th PA Regiment Companies

Company F
Schuylkill County
Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

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

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