PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

36th Pennsylvania Regiment - 7th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps

36th PA Regiment Biographies

• John Irrgang

36th PA Regiment Companies

• Company I
  Berks and Lebanon Counties

36th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, July, 1861.
• Ordered to Washington, D.C., July 21,
• And mustered into United States service July 27, 1861.
• Attached to 2nd Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Duty at Tennallytown, Md., August 2 to October 10, 1861,
• And at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, till March, 1862.
• Skirmish at Great Falls September 4, 1861.
• Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
• At Fairfax Station till April 9.
• At Manassas Junction till April 17.
• At Catlett's Station till May 11,
• And at Falmouth till June 9.
• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula June 9-11.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines Mill June 27;
• Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale Juno 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, Md., September 14;
• Antietam September 16-17. Monument
• Duty in Maryland till October 30.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6, 1863,
• And duty there and at Alexandria till April, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May.
• Battle of the Wilderness May 5-7.
• Regiment captured except Company "B." Spottsylvania May 8-12.
• Laurel Hill May 8.
• 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 16, 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 80 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 135 Enlisted men by disease. Total 218

36th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipient

• CART, JACOB: Carlisle, Private, Company A, 7th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Fredericksburg, Va., 13 December, 1862. Citation given: 25 November 1864 for capture of flag of 19th Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.), wresting it from the hands of the color bearer.