PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

96th Pennsylvania Regiment

96th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Peter Filbert

96th PA Regiment Newspaper Articles

• Miner's Journal, July 12, 1863
  Captain Samuel Russel from Pottsville wrote home about the battle of Gettysburg,..
  
  
• Miner's Journal, June 14, 1864
  The killed and wounded of our regiments ...
  
  
• Miner's Journal, December 3, 1864
  Members of the 96th Regiment still prisoners in the hands of the Rebels.- ...
  
  
• Miner's Journal, July 27, 1865
  Paroled Union Prisoners...
  
  
• Miner' Journal - 1865
  A record of the names of the sons of Schuylkill who died that their country might live....

96th PA Regiment Diary

• Diary of Henry Keiser
  Private Henry Keiser, a member of Company G from Lykens, Dauphin County kept a diary throughout the war and kept a descriptive look at what the 96th did during the Gettysburg Campaign.

96th PA Regiment Letter

• Samuel Russel letter
  Letter written by Captain Samuel Russel of Pottsville describing the battle of Gettysburg.

96th PA Regiment Book

• Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion,
  Excerpt - Return Home of the 96th

96th PA Regiment Photo

• General view of 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
  During drill at Camp Northumberland, with the camp in the background.

96th PA Regiment Companies

• Field and Staff Officers
• Company A

Schuylkill County
• Company B

Schuylkill County
• Company C

Schuylkill County
• Company D

Schuylkill County
• Company E

Luzerne, Schuylkill County
• Company F

Schuylkill County
• Company G

Dauphin, Berks and Schuylkill County
• Company H

Schuylkill County
• Company I

Schuylkill County
• Company K

Schuylkill County
• Regimental Band

Roster
• Regimental History

96th PA Regiment Prisoners of War

• POWs

Schuylkill County

96th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Pottsville September 9 to October 30, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C., November 18, 1861.
• Attached to Slocum's Brigade, Franklin's Division. Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to May, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, and Army of the Shenandoah, to October, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D.C., till March. 1862.
• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
• McDowell's advance on Falmouth April 4-17.
• Return to Alexandria and embark for the Peninsula.
• Siege of Yorktown April 24-May 4 (on transports).
• West Point May 7-8.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Gaines' Mill June 27.
• Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Centreville August 16-28.
• In works at Centreville August 28-31.
• Cover Pope's retreat to Fairfax Court House September 1.
• Maryland Campaign September 6-24.
• Crampton's Pass, South Mountain, September 14.
• Antietam September 16-17.
• Duty in Maryland till October 30.
• Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19.
• Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Burnside's second Campaign, "Mud March," January 20-24, 1863.
• At Falmouth till April.
• Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
• Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
• Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
• Salem Heights May 3-4.
• Banks' Ford May 4.
• Gettysburg Campaign June 13-July 24.
• Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2-4.
• Pursuit of Lee July 5-24.
• At and near Funkstown, Md., July 10-13.
• Hagerstown July 14.
• Duty on line of the Rappahannock 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

• Duty at Hazel River till May, 1864.
• Rapidan Campaign May 4-June 12.
• Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7;
• Spottsylvania Court House May 8-21.
• 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.
• Pursuit of Early to Snicker's Gap July 14-18.
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to October.
• Near Charlestown August 21-22.
• Charlestown August 24.
• Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19.
• Fisher's Hill September 22.
• New Market September 24.
• Battle of Cedar Creek October 19.
• Mustered out October 21, 1864, expiration of term.

  Regimental Losses

• Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 126 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 86 Enlisted men by disease. Total 219. Regimental Losses