PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

71st Pennsylvania Regiment - California Regiment

71st PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

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

71st PA Regiment Books

• History of the Philadelphia Brigade : Sixty-Ninth, Seventy-First, Seventy-Second, and One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers Online at Ancestry.com.
  
  
• Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson
  
  
• Duty Well Done: The History of Edward Baker's California Regiment (71st Pennsylvania Infantry (Army of the Potomac Ser)

71st PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia August 10, 1861.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., August, 1861.
• At Munson's Hill till September 30.
• Attached to Baker's Brigade, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to August, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Moved to Poolesville, Md., September 30, 1861,

  Service & Battles - 1862

• And duty on the Upper Potomac till February, 1862.
• At Harper's Ferry till March 24.
• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March 24-April 1.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
• Moved to West Point May 7.
• At Tyler's Farm till May 31.
• Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31-June 1.
• At Fair Oaks till June 28.
• Near Fair Oaks June 8.
• Seven Pines June 15.
• Fair Oaks June 19.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Battles of Peach Orchard and Savage Station June 29;
• Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30; Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to Newport News, thence to Alexandria August 16-28,
• And to Centreville and Chantilly August 28-30.
• Cover Pope's retreat August 31-September 1.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battle of Antietam September 16-17.
• Moved to Harper's Ferry September 22, and duty there till October 30.
• Reconnoissance to Charlestown October 16-17.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 20.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's second Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Hartwood Church February 25.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Banks Ford May 1 and 4.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 13-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg July 2-4.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• At Banks Ford and Culpeper till October.
• Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.
• Robertson's Tavern or Locust Grove November 27.
• Duty on the Rapidan till May, 1864.
• Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Laurel Hill May 8;
• Spottsylvania May 8-12; Po River May 12-21.
• Assault on the Salient May 12.
• 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.
• Siege of Petersburg June 16-August 20.
• Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23.
• Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom July 27-29.
• Deep Bottom July 27-28.
• Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30 (Reserve).

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Mustered out at Philadelphia August 24, 1864.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 182 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 264.