PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

63rd Pennsylvania Regiment

63rd PA Regiment Biographies

• Fields, Samuel
• Stevenson, John Sheldon

63rd PA Regiment Books

• Under the red patch; story of the Sixty third regiment, Pennslvania volunteers, 1861-1864, comp. by Gilbert Adams Hays, with personal narrative by William H. Morrow, Company A.

63rd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg August, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D. C., August 26.
• Attached to Jameson's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to September, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862.
• Reconnoissance to Pohick Church and the Occoquan November 12, 1861.
• Pohick Church and the Occoquan March 5, 1862 (Detachment).
• Moved to the Peninsula March 16-18.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
• Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31-June 1.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Oak Grove June 25.
• Glendale June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• Duty at Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to Centreville August 16-26.
• Bristoe Station or Kettle Run August 27.
• Buckland's Bridge, Broad Run, August 27.
• Battles of Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30; Chantilly September 1.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington and guarding fords in Maryland till October.
• March up the Potomac to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va., October 11-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  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.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• Wapping Heights, Va., July 23.
• Duty on line of the Rappahannock till October.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Auburn and Bristoe October 13-14.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Kelly's Ford November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
• Payne's Farm November 27.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Laurel Hill May 8;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12; Po River May 10;
• Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• Harris' Farm May 19.
• North Anna River May 23-26.
• Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 29-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.
• Siege of Petersburg and Richmond June 16-September 5.
• Weldon Railroad June 22-23.
• Demonstration on north side of the
• James River at Deep Bottom July 27-29.
• Deep Bottom July 27-28.
• Mine Explosion July 30 (Reserve).
• Demonstration on north side of the James August 13-20.
• Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18.
• Veterans and Recruits transferred to 105th Pennsylvania Regiment September 5, 1864.
• Mustered out September 9, 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 17 Officers and 169 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 133 Enlisted men by disease. Total 320.

63rd PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipient

• KINDIG, JOHN M.: East Liberty, Corporal, Company A, 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Spotsylvania, Va., 12 May 1864. Citation given: 1 December 1864. Capture of flag of 28th North Carolina Infantry. (C.S.A.).