PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

29th Pennsylvania Regiment - German Rifle Regiment

29th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

29th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia July 1, 1861.
• Left State for Harper's Ferry, W. Va., August 3.
• Attached to Gordon's Brigade, Dept. of the Susquehanna, August, 1861.
• 3rd Brigade. Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah to June, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.
• Bartlett's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to July, 1865.
• Duty at Harper's Ferry and on Upper Potomac till February, 1862.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Operations about Dams 4 and 5 December 17-20, 1861.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Advance on Winchester March 1-12.
• Occupation of Winchester March 12.
• Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley March 24-April 27.
• Woodstock April 1.
• Edenburg April 1-2.
• Stony Creek April 2.
• Operations in Shenandoah Valley May 15-June 17.
• Front Royal May 23 (Cos. "B" and "G").
• Buckton Station May 23.
• Middletown and Newtown May 24.
• Retreat to Williamsport May 24-26.
• Battle of Winchester May 25.
• At Williamsport till June 10.
• Moved to Front Royal June 10-18; thence to Warrenton and Little Washington July 11-18.
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 6-September 2.
• Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9 (Reserve).
• Guarding trains during Bull Run Battles.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17 (Provost and Rear Guard).
• Chambersburg, Pa., October 11.
• Duty at Maryland Heights till December.
• March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-16.
• Fairfax Station December 12.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• At Stafford Court House till April, 1863.
• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• 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.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Duty on line of the Rappahannock till September.
• Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3.
• Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
• Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
• Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24; Mission Ridge November 25;
• Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.
• Reenlisted December 10, 1863.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Guard duty on Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad till April, 1864.
• Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
• Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13.
• Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
• Near Cassville May 19.
• New Hope Church May 25.
• Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas,
• New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 26-June 5.
• Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
• Pine Hill June 11-14.
• Lost Mountain June 15-17.
• Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15.
• Muddy Creek June 17.
• Noyes Creek June 19.
• Kolb's Farm June 22.
• Assault on Kenesaw Mountain June 27.
• Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground July 4.
• Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
• Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
• Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
• Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2.
• Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15.
• Expedition to Tuckum's Cross Roads October 26-29.
• Near Atlanta November 9.
• March to the sea November 15-December 10.
• Near Davidsboro November 28.
• Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
• Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21.
• Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
• Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.
• Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
• Bennett's House April 26.
• Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
• Grand Review May 24.
• Duty in Dept. of Washington, D.C., till July.
• Mustered out July 11, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 99 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 84 Enlisted men by disease. Total 187.