PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

52nd Pennsylvania Regiment

52nd PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• J.C Kitner

52nd PA Regiment Companies

• Company K
  Schuylkill County / Luzerne County
• Regimental History

52nd PA Regiment Books

• History of the Fifty-Second Regiment
  Written at Morris Island, S.C., Sept. 1, 1864 by Noah Adams, Co. G, 52nd Reg't, P. V. (online transcription)

52nd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Harrisburg November 5, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., November 8.
• Attached to 1st Brigade, Casey's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to December, 1862.
• Naglee's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina, to February, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1863.
• District of Beaufort, S. C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to July, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, July, 1863.
• Davis' Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to August, 1863.
• 5th Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to November, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to April, 1864.
• District of Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. South, to June, 1864.
• Morris Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South, to October, 1864.
• 1st Separate Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., Dept. South, to March, 1865.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division. 23rd Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina, to July, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862.
• Advance on Manassas, Va.. March 10-15.
• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March 28.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
• Bottom's Bridge May 19-20.
• Operations about Bottom's Bridge May 20-23.
• Reconnoissance to Seven Pines May 24-27.
• Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy May 24.
• Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31-June 1.
• At Bottom's Bridge June 13-26.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Bottom's Bridge June 28-29.
• White Oak Swamp Bridge June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 15.
• Moved to Yorktown August 16-20, and duty there till December 31.
• Expedition to Gloucester, Matthews, King and Queen and Middlesex Counties December 11-15.
• Ordered to Beaufort, N. C., December 31.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• At Carolina City till January 28.
• Moved to Port Royal, S.C., January 28-31.
• At St. Helena Island, S.C., February 10-April 4.
• Operations against Charleston April 4-15.
• Duty at Beaufort, S. C., till July 6.
• Moved to Folly Island July 6.
• Expedition to James Island, S.C., July 9-16.
• Secessionville July 16.
• Operations on Morris and Folly Islands, S.C., against Forts Wagner and Gregg,
• Morris Island, and Fort Sumpter and Charleston July 18-September 7.
• Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Operations against Charleston till April, 1864.
• Regiment reenlisted December 31, 1863.
• Duty at Hilton Head, S.C., till June, 1864.
• Reconnoissance to Dafuskie Island May 11.
• Moved to Morris Island, S.C., and operations against Charleston till February, 1865.
• Assault on Fort Johnson and Battery Simpkins, James Island, July 3, 1864.
• Occupation of Charleston February 18.
• Duty in Charleston Harbor till April 18.
• Ordered to North Carolina and duty at Salisbury till July.
• Mustered out July 12, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 43 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 173 Enlisted men by disease. Total 219.