PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

82nd Pennsylvania Regiment

82nd PA Regiment Companies

• 82nd Regiment
  Regimental History & Company Rosters

82nd PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Philadelphia as 31st Regiment Volunteers August, 1861, and ordered to Washington, D.C.
• Attached to Graham's Brigade, Buell's (Couch's) Division, Army Potomac, October, 1861, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to September, 1862.
• 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to October, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, to January, 1864.
• Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio, to May, 1864.
• 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, and Army Shenandoah, to July, 1865.

  Service & Battles - 1861 - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March, 1862.
• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
• Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March 26.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
• Operations about Bottom's Bridge May 20-23.
• Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31-June 1.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Savage Station June 29.
• White Oak Swamp June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Reconnoissance to Malvern Hill August 5-7.
• Movement to Alexandria, thence to Chantilly August 16-30.
• Chantilly September 1.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Battle of Antietam September 16-17.
• Williamsport September 19-20.
• Duty in Maryland and along the Potomac till November 1.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., November 1-19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.
• Burnside's second Campaign.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations about Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
• Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
• Salem Heights May 3-4.
• Banks' Ford May 4.
• Operations about Deep Run Ravine June 6-13.
• Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 13-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg July 2-4.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• At and near Funkstown, Md., July 10-13.
• At Warrenton and Culpeper till October.
• Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.
• Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.
• Rappahannock Station November 7.
• Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Moved to Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, January 6, 1864, and duty there guarding prisoners till May 6.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., thence Joined Army of the Potomac in the field.
• Rapidan Campaign May 12-June 12.
• Spottsylvania Court House 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 17-18.
• Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23.
• Siege of Petersburg till July 9.
• Moved to Washington, D.C., July 9-11.
• Repulse of Early's attack on Washington July 11-12.
• Snicker's Gap Expedition July 14-18.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December.
• (Old members mustered out September 16, 1864.)
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Fisher's Hill September 22, Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.
• Duty in the Shenandoah Valley till December.
• Ordered to Petersburg, Va., December 1.

  Service & Battles - 1865

• Siege of Petersburg December, 1864, to April, 1865.
• Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
• Fort Fisher, Petersburg, March 25, 1865.
• Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9.
• Assault on and fail of Petersburg April 2.
• Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Sailor's Creek April 6.
• Appomattox Court House April 9.
• Surrender of Lee and his army.
• At Farmville and Burkesville till April 23.
• March to Danville April 23-27, and duty there till May 24.
• Moved to Richmond, Va., thence to Washington, D.C., May 24-June 3.
• Corps Review June 8.
• Mustered out July 13, 1865.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 106 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 67 Enlisted men by disease. Total 178.