PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

56th Pennsylvania Regiment

55th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

• Miner' Journal - 1865
  A record of the names of the sons of Schuylkill who died that their country might live....

56th PA Regiment Companies

• Company K
  Schuylkill County / Susquehanna County

56th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, March 7, 1862.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., March 8.
• Attached to Defences of Washington to May, 1862.
• Doubleday's Brigade, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 5th Array Corps, Army Potomac, to September, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty at Fort Albany, Defences of Washington, till April 4, 1862,
• And at Budd's Ferry till April 24.
• At Aquia Creek Landing till May 10.
• Guard railroad bridge at Potomac Creek May 21-27.
• (Five Companies moved to Belle Plains May 10.)
• Guard duty near Fredericksburg till August 9.
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2.
• Battles of Gainesville August 28;
• Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battles of South Mountain September 14;
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty on the battlefield of Antietam till October 20.
• (Co. "A" at Fairfax October 20-30.)
• At Bakersville October 20-30. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Union, Va., November 2-3.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth and Belle Plains till April 27, 1863.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2.
• Fitzhugh's Crossing April 29-30.
• Chancellorsville May 2-5.
• Brandy Station and Beverly Ford June 9. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Duty on line of the Rappahannock till October.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• On Veteran furlough March 10-April 17.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• 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.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Jericho Ford May 25.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Bethesda Church June 1-3.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864 (Reserve).
• Weldon Railroad August 18-21.
• Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2.
• Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28.
• Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad December 7-12.
• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Lewis Farm near Gravelly Run March 29.
• Boydton and White Oak Road March 31.
• Five Forks April 1.
• Fall of Petersburg April 2. Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12.
• Grand Review May 23.
• Mustered out at Philadelphia, Pa., July 1, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 111 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 96 Enlisted men by disease. Total 215.

56th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• JENNINGS, JAMES T. Private, Company K, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry. Entered service at: Bucks County, Pa. Birth: England. Citation: Capture of flag of 55th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.) at Weldon Railroad, Va., 20 August 1864. Date of issue: 1 December 1864.