8th Pennsylvania (Reserve) Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
(37th Volunteers)
Organized at Pittsburg July, 1861. Ordered to Washington, D.C., July 30. Attached to 1st Brigade, McCall's Pennsylvania Reserves Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862. 1st Brigade, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd 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 Corps, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington, to April, 1863. District of Alexandria, 22nd Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1864.
SERVICE.--
- Duty at Tennallytown, Md., August 2 to October 10, 1861, and at Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va., until March, 1862.
- September 4, 1861 -
Skirmish at Great Falls, Maryland
- Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15, 1862.
- McDowell's advance on Falmouth April 9-19.
- Duty at Fredericksburg until June.
- Moved to White House June 9-11.
- June ?-September 2, 1862 -
The Peninsula Campaign
- At Harrison's Landing until August 16.
- Movement to join Pope August 16-26.
- August 26-September 2, 1862 -
The Northern Virginia Campaign
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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. Battles of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Ordered to Washington, D.C., February 6, and duty there and at Alexandria until April, 1864.
- May 4-June 12, 1864 -
The Overland Campaign
- May 17, 1864 - Non-veterans left the front
- May 24 1864 - Mustered out of federal service
- May 31, 1864 - Veterans and recruits re-organized into the 191st Pennsylvania Infantry
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 758, 760, 761, 906, 907, 933, 934, 936, 1580)
- Fox, William F. 1840-1909. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, With Full and Exhaustive Statistics Compiled From the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington. Albany: Albany Pub. Co., 1889. (Page 13)