PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

78th Pennsylvania Regiment

78th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• William D. Bailey, M. D.
• Herbert Bengough
• William Bott
• Absalom Brockey

78th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pittsburg October 15, 1861.
• Left State for Louisville, Ky., October 18,
• Thence moved to Nolin Station, Ky., October 24, and duty there till December.
• Attached to Negley's 4th Brigade, McCook's Division, at Nolin, to November, 1861.
• 7th Brigade, Army Ohio, to December, 1861.
• 7th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army Ohio, to March, 1862.
• Negley's Independent Brigade, Army Ohio, to August, 1862.
• 7th Brigade, 8th Division, Army Ohio, to November, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Centre Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to October, 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864.
• Unassigned, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864.
• Garrison Nashville, Tenn., to September, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• At Munfordsville, Ky., December, 1861, to February, 1862.
• March to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 3.
• Guard railroad from Nashville to Columbia till May, and at Decatur May.
• Expedition to Rodgersville May 13-14.
• Negley's Expedition to Chattanooga May 28-June 17.
• Chattanooga June 7-8.
• Garrison at Rodgersville and guarding Lamb's Ferry till July 18.
• Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and garrison duty there till December.
• Hermitage Ford October 20.
• Nashville November 5.
• Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
• Duty at Murfreesboro till June.
• Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
• Hoover's, Gap June 24-26.
• At Dechard, Ala., July 8-August 15.
• Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
• Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 11.
• Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21.
• Rossville Gap September 21.
• Siege of Chattanooga September 24-October 27.
• Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
• Battles of Chattanooga November 23-25; Mission Ridge November 24-25.
• Reconnoissance to Lookout Mountain November 29-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Duty on Lookout Mountain till May, 1864.
• Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-June 21.
• Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
• Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Cassville May 19.
• Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
• Pickett's Mills May 27.
• Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-21.
• Pine HIll June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17.
• Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., June 21.
• Duty guarding trains to the front July to September.
• Action at Dalton, Ga., August 14-15.
• Ordered to Decatur, Ala., September 24, thence to Nashville, Tenn., and to Tullahoma September 29.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Returned to Nashville and duty there till September, 1865.
• Old members ordered home October, 1864, and mustered out at Pittsburg, Pa., November 4, 1864.
• Battles of Nashville, Tenn., December 16-17, 1864.
• Mustered out September 11, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 194 Enlisted men by disease. Total 267.