PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

62nd Pennsylvania Regiment

62nd PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Curtis Armstrong
• Philip Shannon

62nd PA Regiment Newspaper Articles

• Indiana Democrat - July 17, 1862
  Federal Prisoners in Richmond
  
  
• Indiana Democrat - July 17, 1862
  Pennsylvania Colonels Killed in the War...

62nd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg as 33rd Regiment August 31, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., August 31, 1861.
• Designation changed to 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers November 18, 1861.
• Attached to Morrell's Brigade, Fitz John Porter's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to May, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, to July, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Camp near Fort Corcoran, Defences of Washington, D.C., till October, 1861,
• And near Fall's Church, Va., till March, 1862.
• Moved to the Peninsula March 22-24.
• Reconnoissance to Big Bethel March 30. Howard's Mills, near Cockletown, April 4.
• Warwick Road April 5.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Hanover Court House May 27.
• Operations about Hanover Court House May 27-29.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Battles of Mechanicsville June 26; Gaines Mill June 27; Savage Station June 29;
• Turkey Bridge or Malvern Cliff June 30;
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28.
• Battle of Bull Run August 30.
• Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17.
• Shepherdstown Ford September 19.
• Blackford's Ford September 19.
• Reconnoissance to Smithfield October 16-17.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.
• Expedition to Richard's and Ellis' Fords, Rappahannock River, December 30-31.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's second Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.
• Middleburg June 19.
• Uppervile June 21.
• 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.
• Rappahannock Station November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty at Bealeton Station till May, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Laurel Hill May 8;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12;
• Spottsylvania C, H. May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Jericho Ford May 25.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Bethesda Church June 1-3.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.
• Siege of Petersburg till July 3.
• Left front July 3.
• Mustered out July 13, 1864.
• Companies "L" and "M" transferred to 91st PA Regiment.
• Mustered out August 15, 1864.
• Veterans and Recruits transferred to 155th PA Regiment.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 17 Officers and 152 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 89 Enlisted men by disease. Total 258.