PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

73rd Pennsylvania Regiment - Pennsylvania Legion

73rd PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• William Smith

73rd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia September 19, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., September 24.
• Attached to Steinwehr's Brigade, Blenker's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Blenker's Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, Blenker's Division, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862.
• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15. Near Catlett's Station, Va., till April 6.
• Moved to Petersburg, W. Va., April 6-May 11.
• Operations in the Shenandoah Valley till June. Battle of Cross Keys June 8.
• Duty in the Shenandoah Valley and at Sperryville till August.
• Occupation of Luray July 22.
• Battle of Cedar Mountain August 9 (Reserve).
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2.
• Fords of the Rappahannock August 21-23.
• Sulphur Springs August 24.
• Gainesville August 28.
• Groveton August 30.
• Bull Run August 30.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till November.
• Movement to Centreville November 1-19,
• Thence to Fredericksburg December 9-16.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• At Stafford Court House till April 27.
• Operations at Welford's, Kelly's and Beverly Fords April 14-15.
• 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.
• Guard duty along Orange & Alexandria Railroad till September.
• Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3.
• Operations in Lookout Valley October 19-26.
• Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
• Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
• Battles of Orchard Knob November 23;
• Tunnel Hill November 24-25.
• Mostly captured November 25 at Tunnel Hill.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty in Lookout Valley till May, 1864.
• Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
• Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
• Dug Gap or Mill Creek May 8.
• Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
• Near Cassville May 19.
• New Hope Church May 25.
• Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 26-June 5.
• Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
• Pine Hill june 11-14.
• Lost Mountain June 15-17.
• Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15.
• Muddy Creek June 17.
• Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22.
• Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
• Ruff's Station or smyrna Camp Ground July 4.
• Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
• Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
• Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
• Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2.
• Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15.
• Expedition to Tuckum's Cross Roads October 26-29.
• Near Atlanta November 9.
• March to the sea November 15-December 10.
• Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
• Averysboro, N. C., March 16.
• Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
• Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
• Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.
• Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
• Bennett's House April 26.
• Surrender of Johnston and his army.
• March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
• Grand Review May 24. Duty in the Defences of Washington till July.
• Mustered out July 14, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 98 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 113 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.