7th Pennsylvania (Reserve) Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
(36th Volunteers)
Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, July, 1861. Ordered to Washington, D. C., July 21, and mustered into United States service July 27, 1861. Attached to 2nd Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserves Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1864.
SERVICE.--
- Duty at Tennallytown, Md., August 2 to October 10, 1861, and at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, until March, 1862.
- September 4, 1861 -
Skirmish at Great Falls, Maryland
- November 3-11, 1861 -
Expedition into Lower Maryland
[1] - Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6.
- Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
- At Fairfax Station until April 9.
- At Manassas Junction until April 17.
- At Catlett's Station until May 11, and at Falmouth until June 9.
- Moved to the Virginia Peninsula June 9-11.
- June 11-September 2, 1862 -
The Peninsula Campaign
- At Harrison's Landing until August 16.
- Movement to join Pope August 16-26.
- Battles of Groveton August 29;
- Bull Run August 30.
- September 3-20, 1862 -
The Maryland Campaign
Duty in Maryland until October 30. Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6, 1863, and duty there and at Alexandria until April, 1864.
- May 4-June 12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign
- May 5-7, 1864 -
Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia
- Regiment captured except Company B
- May 8-21, 1864 -
Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
- May 22-26, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the North Anna River, Virginia
- May 26-28, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Pamunkey River, Virginia
- May 28-31, 1864 -
Operations on Line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia
- May 5-7, 1864 -
- May 31, 1864 - Veterans and recruits re-organized into the 190th Pennsylvania Infantry
- Non-veterans left front
- June 16, 1864 - Mustered out of federal service
- Non-veterans left front
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 80 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 135 Enlisted men by disease. Total 218.
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Notes
- ↑ Not originally listed on unit homepage but referenced on Dyer summary
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 758, 759, 760, 761, 902, 903, 904, 932, 933, 934, 936, 937, 938, 939, 940, 1580)
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