PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

34th Pennsylvania Regiment

34th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

• Indiana Democrat - July 17, 1862
  Pennsylvania Colonels Killed in the War...

34th PA Regiment Photographs

• Pvt. James A. Morrison
  Private, Company C

34th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg June, 1861.
• Ordered to point on State line opposite Cumberland, Md., June 22;
• Thence moved into West Virginia in support of Lew Wallace.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., August 8.
• Attached to 1st Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division,
• Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to June 26, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Duty at Tennallytown, Md., till October 10, 1861,
• And at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., till March, 1862.
• Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6, 1861.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862.
• McDowell's advance on Falmouth April 9-19.
• Duty at Fredericksburg till June.
• Moved to White House June 11-13.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Battles of Mechanicsville June 26;
• Gaines' Mill June 27;
• Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30;
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to Join Pope August 16-26.
• Battles of Groveton August 29;
• Bull Run August 30.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battles of South Mountain September 14.
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty in Maryland till October 30.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg Decem,her 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington and Alexandria till June 25.
• Joined Army of Potomac in the field.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Rappahannock Station November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty at Alexandria till May, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May, 1864.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7.
• Laurel Hill May 8.
• Spottsylvania May 8-12.
• Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• Harris Farm May 19.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Jericho Ford May 25.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Left front May 31.
• Mustered out June 13, 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 14 Officers and 127 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 68 Enlisted men by disease. Total 209.