PA Civil War Volunteer Soldiers

9th Pennsylvania Regiment

9th PA Regiment Companies

• Field and Staff Officers
  


• Company A
  West Chester, Chester County
• Company B
  Kittanning, Armstrong County
• Company C
  Carlisle, Cumberland County
• Company D
  Allentown, Lehigh County
• Company E
  West Chester, Chester County
• Company F
  West Chester, Chester County
• Company G
  Easton, Northampton County
• Company H
  St. Clair, Schuylkill County
• Company I
  Chester, Delaware County
• Company K
  Port Carbon, Schuylkill County
• Regimental History

9th PA Regiment Books

• The Memoirs of Charles Henry Veil: A Soldier's Recollections of the Civil War and the Arizona Territory (Thorndike Large Print General)
  Charles Veil was General John Reynolds' orderly at Gettysburg who, after the battle, recovered the General's body. He later went on to serve in the Arizona territory before returing to Pennsylvania, where he died in 1910. Veil provides a firsthand account of his association with generals Sheridan and Custer, dealings with the Apache Indians, encounters with Indian atrocities, and tracking of army deserters.

9th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, April 24, 1861.
• Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, Patterson's Army

  Service & Battles - 1861

• Moved to Camp Wayne, West Chester, May 4;
• Thence to Hare's Corners, Delaware, May 26,
• And duty there till June 6.
• Moved to Chambersburg, Pa., June 6.
• Duty at Chambersburg till June 13.
• Advance to the Potomac June 13-16.
• Near Williamsport till July 1.
• Falling Waters July 2.
• Occupation of Martinsburg July 3.
• Advance to Bunker Hill July 15.
• At Charlestown July 17-21,
• Thence moved to Harrisburg via Hagerstown.
• Mustered out July 29, 1861.