PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

37th Pennsylvania Regiment - 8th Reserves

37th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

37th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg July, 1861.
• Ordered to Washington, D.C., July 30.
• 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.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd 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 Corps, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1863.
• District of Alexandria, 22nd Corps, to April, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Duty at Tennallytown, Md., August 2 to October 10, 1861,
• And at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., till March, 1862.
• Skirmish at Great Falls September 4, 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 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 June 30; Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to join Pope August 16-26.
• Battles of Gainesville August 28;
• Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battles of South Mountain, Md., September 14;
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty in Maryland till October 30.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Battles of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6, and duty there and at Alexandria till April, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign.
• Battles of the Wilderness, Va., May 5-7;
• Laurel Hill May 8;
• Spottsylvania May 8-17.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• Left the front May 17.
• Mustered out May 24 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 153 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 68 Enlisted men by disease. Total 226.