PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

68th Pennsylvania Regiment

68th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Company Rosters

68th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia August, 1862,
• Left State for Washington, D.C., September 1, 1862.
• Camp at Arlington Heights till October.
• Moved to Poolesville, Md., and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to March, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1864.
• Provost Guard, Army Potomac, to April, 1865.
• Collis' Independent Brigade, 9th Army Corps, April, 1865.
• Hart's Island, N.Y., Harbor, Dept. of the East, to June, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• March up the Potomac to Leesburg, thence to Falmouth, Va., October 11-November 19, 1862.
• Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's 2nd 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 13-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 October 13.
• Auburn and Bristoe October 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

• At Brandy Station till April, 1864.
• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Assigned to provost duty at Meade's Headquarters April 18.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Spottsylvania C. H. May 8-21;
• Guinea Station May 21; North Anna River May 23-26.
• On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.
• Totopotomoy May 28-31.
• Cold Harbor June 1-12.
• Before Petersburg June 16-18.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
• Garrison and provost duty at City Point, Va., June 18, 1864, to April 1, 1865.
• Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2.
• Occupation of Petersburg April 3.
• Moved from before Petersburg to Hart's Island, N. Y. Harbor, April, 1865, and duty there guarding prisoners till June.
• Mustered out June 9, 1865

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost 10 Officers and 61 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 51 Enlisted men by disease.