PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

75th Pennsylvania Regiment

75th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

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

75th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Rosters
  
  

75th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia August and September, 1861, as 40th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., September 26, 1861.
• Attached to Casey's Provisional Division, Army Potomac, to November, 1861.
• Bohlen's 3rd Brigade, Blenker's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, Blenker's Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, Blenker's Division, Dept. of the Mountain, to June, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to October, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to April, 1864.
• Unattached, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. Cumberland, to March, 1865.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Sub-District, Middle Tennessee, to September, 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 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.
• At Sperryville July 7-August 8.
• Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2.
• Freeman's Ford August 22.
• Sulphur Springs August 24.
• Battles of Gainesville August 28; Groveton August 29; Bull Run August 30.
• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till November.
• Moved 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Orchard Knob November 23. Tunnel Hill November 24-25.
• Mission Ridge November 25.
• March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 17.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty in Pleasant Valley till January, 1864.
• Veterans on furlough till March.
• Moved to Bridgeport, Ala., March 8, and duty there till July.
• Moved to Nashville, Tenn., July 31,
• And guard trains on Nashville & Northwestern Railroad till December.
• Moved to Franklin December 20,

  Service & Battles - 1865

• And duty there till September, 1865,
• guarding trains, scouting and provost duty.
• (Co. "C" was stationed on Tennessee & Alabama Railroad and captured.)
• Mustered out September 1, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 46 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 107 Enlisted men by disease. Total 161.