PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

40th Pennsylvania Regiment - 11th Pennsylvania Reserves

40th PA Regiment Books

• Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh: The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment

40th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

40th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

• Organized at Camp Wright, near Pittsburg, June, 1861,
• Moved to Harrisburg, Pa., June 24; thence to Baltimore, Md.,
• June 25, and to Washington, D.C., June 26.
• Mustered into United States service June 29, 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, to August, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Corps;
• Dept. of Washington, to June, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Corps, to June, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Duty at Tennallytown, Md., and picket at Great Falls August 2 to October 10, 1861.
• 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 Manassas Junction, Catlett's Station,
• And Falmouth, till June.
• Moved to White House June 9-12.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Battles of Mechanicsville June 26;
• Gaines' Mill June 27
• (most of Regiment captured, exchanged August 5, 1862);
• Charles City Cross Roads, 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, Md., September 14;
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty in Maryland till October 30. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• Moved to Washington, D. C., February 6.
• Duty there and at Alexandria till June 25.
• Ordered to rejoin Army of the Potomac in the field.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Duty on the Rapidan till October.
• 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 - 1862

• Duty at Alexandria till April, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-30.
• 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.
• On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-30.
• Left front May 30.
• Mustered out June 13, 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 185 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 112 Enlisted men by disease. Total 309.

40th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• HOWARD, HENDERSON C.: Corporal, Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. Glendale, Va., 30 June 1862. Citation given: 30 March 1898. While pursuing one of the enemy's sharpshooters, encountered 2 others, whom he bayoneted in hand-to-hand encounters; was 3 times wounded in action.
  
  
• SHAMBAUGH, CHARLES: Born in Prussia. Corporal, Company D, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. Charles City Crossroads, Va., 30 June 1862. Citation given: 17 July 1866. Capture of flag.