PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

26th Pennsylvania Regiment

26th PA Regiment Books

• Philadelphia in the Civil War
  26th Regiment Online at Ancestry.com.

26th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia April 20, 1861.
• Mustered in May 27, 1861 (a detachment attacked in streets of Baltimore April 19, 1861).
• Moved to Washington, D.C., June 15, 1861.
• Attached to Defences of Washington to August. 1861.
• Hooker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.
• Grover's Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac; to March, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac; to March, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till October, 1861, and at Budd's Ferry, Md., October 20, 1861, to April 1, 1862.
• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula, Siege of Yorktown, April 5-May 4.
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
• Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, May 31-June 1.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Oak Grove June 25.
• Savage Station June 29.
• White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• Duty at Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Action at Malvern Hill August 5.
• Movement to Centreville August 16-26.
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 26-September 2.
• Bristoe Station, Kettle Run, August 27.
• Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30;
• Chantilly September 1.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till November.
• Operations on Orange & Alexandria Railroad October 10-12.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., November 18-28.
• Battle of Fredericksburg. Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church February 5-7.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg (Pa.) July 1-3.
• Wapping Heights, Va., July 23.
• Duty on line of the Rapidan till October.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Kelly's Ford November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
• Payne's Farm November 27.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• Near Brandy Station till May.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-28.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12;
• Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• Harris Farm, on Fredericksburg Road, May 19.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Ox Ford May 24.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Left front May 28.
• Mustered out June 18, 1864.
• Veterans and Recruits transferred to 99th PA Regiment.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 143 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 71 Enlisted men by disease. Total 222.

26th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipient

• ROOSEVELT, GEORGE W.: Chester, First Sergeant, Company K. 26th Pennsylvania Infantry. Bull Run, Va., 30 August 1862. Gettysburg, Pa. 2 July, 1863. Citation given: 2 July 1887. At Bull Run, Va., recaptured the colors, which had been seized by the enemy. At Gettysburg captured a Confederate color bearer and color, in which effort he was severely wounded.