Battles, Skirmishes
and Other Actions
in Pennsylvania
|
Date |
Nature |
Location |
|
| October 10, 1862 | Action | Chambersburg | 29th PA Infantry |
| October 11, 1862 | Skirmish | Near Gettysburg | 6th PA Cavalry (Detachment) |
| June 22, 1863 | Skirmish | Greencastle | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Union Loss: 1 killed |
| June 24, 1863 | Skirmish | McConnellsburg | 12th PA Cavalry |
| June 25, 1863 | Skirmish | McConnellsburg | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Union Loss: 10 missing |
| June 26, 1863 | Skirmish | Near Gettysburg | 26th PA Militia Union Loss: 176 missing |
| June 28, 1863 | Skirmish | Fountain Dale | PA Militia (No Report.) |
| June 28, 1863 | Skirmish, | Wrightsville (See the article about the destruction of the Susquehanna Bridge on Jeff Burk's web site | 20th and 27th PA Militia Union loss: 12 wounded, 11 missing. Total, 23 |
| June 28-29, 1863 | Skirmishes | Oyster Point | Philadelphia Battery Light Arty; 71st New York Militia Infantry |
| June 29, 1863 | Skirmish | McConnellsburg | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Union loss, 1 wounded |
| June 30, 1863 | Skirmish | Fairfield | Advance 1st Cavalry Division |
| June 30, 1863 | Action | Hanover | 4th and 18th PA Cavalry; 1st Maine Cavalry; 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th
Michigan Cavalry; 5th New York Cavalry; 1st Vermont Cavalry; 1st West
Virginia Cavalry; Battery "M," 2d and Battery "E," 4th United States
Artillery Union loss, 19 killed, 73 wounded, 123 missing. Total, 215 |
| June 30, 1863 | Action | Sporting Hill, near Harrisburg | Landis' Battery PA Light Artillery; 22d and 37th New York Militia
Infantry Union loss, 9 wounded |
| July 1-3, 1863 | Battle | Gettysburg | Pennsylvania: 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 8th, 16th, 17th and 18th,
Cavalry; 3d Heavy Artillery (Co. "H"); Batteries "B," "F" and "G," 1st Light
Artillery; Independent Batteries "C," "E" and "F," Light Artillery; 1st, 2d,
5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Reserves Infantry; 11th, 23d, 26th,
27th, 28th, 29th, 46th, 49th, 53d, 56th, 57th, 61st, 62d, 63d, 68th, 69th,
71st, 72d, 73d, 74th, 75th, 81st, 82d, 83d, 88th, 90th, 91st, 95th, 96th,
98th, 99th, 105th, 106th, 107th, 109th, 110th, 111th, 114th, 115th, 116th,
118th, 119th, 121st, 139th, 140th, 141st, 142d, 143d, 145th, 147th, 148th,
149th, 150th, 151st, 153d and 155th Infantry. See other Union Units below |
| July 1, 1863 | Action | Carlisle | Landis' Battery PA Light Artillery; 23d, 28th, 33d and 37th New York
Militia Infantry Union loss, 12 wounded |
| July 2, 1863 | Skirmish | near Chambersburg | (No Reports) |
| July 2, 1863 | Action | Hunterstown | 18th PA Cavalry; 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th Michigan Cavalry; 1st Vermont Cavalry; 1st West Virginia Cavalry; United States Batteries "M," 2d Arty, and "E," 4th Arty. |
| July 3, 1863 | Action | Fairfield | United States 6th Cavalry |
| July 4, 1863 | Action | Monterey Gap | 8th and 18th PA Cavalry; 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th Michigan Cavalry; 2d, 4th
and 5th New York Cavalry; 1st Ohio Cavalry (Detachment) and 6th Ohio
Cavalry; 1st Vermont Cavalry; 1st West Virginia Cavalry; Battery "M," 2d U.
S. Artillery and Battery "E," 4th U. S. Artilery Union loss, 1 killed, 12 wounded, 30 missing. Total, 43 |
| July 4, 1863 | Action | Fairfield | 6th U. S. Cavalry |
| July 4, 1863 | Skirmish | Fairfield Gap | 1st Michigan Cavalry Union loss, 2 killed, 6 wounded, 13 missing. Total, 21 |
| July 5, 1863 | Action | Fairfield | 6th U. S. Cavalry |
| July 4, 1863 | Skirmish | near Fairfield | 1st, 2d, 3d and 15th New Jersey Infantry; 1st and 3d Independent
Batteries, New York Light Artillery; Battery "G," 1st Rhode Island Light
Artillery; 5th Wisconsin Infantry Union loss, 2 killed, 5 wounded. Total, 7 |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | near Greencastle | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | Green Oak | 4th PA Cavalry |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | Stevens' Furnace, or Caledonia Iron Works | 16th PA Cavalry |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | near Mercersburg | (No Reports.) |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | Cunningham's Cross Roads | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Union loss, 2 killed, 1 missing. Total, 3 |
| July 5, 1863 | Skirmish | Greencastle | 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry (Detachment); 12th PA Cavalry
(Detachment) Union loss, 1 wounded, 18 missing. Total, 19 |
| July 29, 1864 | Skirmish | Mercersburg | McGowan's Company, Maryland Infantry; Battery "A," 1st New York Light Artillery (Sec.) |
| July 30, 1864 | Burning of Chambersburg | Chambersburg | McGowan's Company, Maryland Infantry; Battery "A," 1st New York Light Artillery; McLean's Detachment, U. S. Cavalry |
| July 30, 1864 | Skirmish | McConnellsburg | 14th PA Cavalry; 8th Ohio Cavalry; 1st, 2d and 3d West Virginia Cavalry |
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**Battle of Gettysburg Union Participants:
Connecticut: 2d Battery Light Arty.; 5th, 14th, 17th, 20th and 27th Infantry
Delaware: 1st and 2d Infantry
Illinois: 8th and 12th Cavalry; 82d Infantry
Indiana: 1st (Cos. "I," "K") and 3d (6 Cos.) Cavalry; 7th, 14th, 19th and 20th Infantry
Maine: 1st Cavalry; 2d, 5th and 6th Batteries Light Arty.; 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th Infantry
Maryland: 1st Cavalry; 1st Potomac Home Brigade Infantry; 1st Eastern Shore Infantry; 3d Infantry .
Massachusetts: 1st Cavalry; 1st, 3d, 5th and 9th Batteries Light Arty.; 1st and 2d Companies Sharpshooters; 1st, 2d, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th. 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22d, 28th, 32d, 33d and 37th Infantry
Michigan: 1st, 5th, 6th and 7th Cavalry; Battery "I," 1st Light Arty.; Brady's Sharpshooters: 1st. 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 16th and 24th Infantry
Minnesota: 1st Infantry
New Hampshire: 1st Battery Light Arty.; 2d. 5th and 12th Infantry.
New Jersey: 1st Cavalry; Batteries "A" and "B." Light Arty.; 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 6th. 7th, 8th, 11th. 12th, 13th and 15th Infantry
Nwe York: 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th Cavalry; Oneida Cavalry Company; Batteries "B," "C." "D," "E," "G," "I," "K," "L" and "M" 1st Light Arty.; 1st, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 13th and 15th Indpt. Batteries Light Arty.: 10th 39th, 40th, 41st 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 49th, 52d 54th, 57th 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62d, 63d, 64th, 65th 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72d, 73d, 74th, 76th, 77th, 78th, 80th, 82d, 83d, 84th, 85th, 88th, 94th, 95th 97th 102d. 104th, 107th, 108th, 111th, 119th, 120th, 121st, 122d, 123d. 124th. 125th, 126th. 134th, 136th, 137th, 140th, 145th. 146th, 147th. 149th, 150th, 154th and 157th Infantry
Ohio: 6th Cavalry; Batteries "H," "I," "K" and "L," 1st Light Arty.; 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 25th, 29th, 55th. 61st, 66th, 73d, 75th, 82d and 107th Infantry
Rhode Island: 1st Cavalry; Batteries "A," "B," "C," "E" and "G," 1st Light Arty.; 2d Infantry
Vermont: 1st Cavalry; 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 13th, 14th and 16th Infantry
West Virginia: 1st and 3d Cavalry; Battery "C," Light Arty.; 7th Infantry
Wisconsin: 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 7th and 26th Infantry
United States: 2d, 5th and 6th Cavalry; Batteries "H," "I" and "K," 1st Arty.; "A" and "M," 2d Arty.; "F" and "K." 3d Arty.; "A," "B," "C." "E," "F," "G" and "K," 4th Arty.; Batteries "C," "D," "F," "I" and "K," 5th Arty.; 1st and 2d Sharpshooters; 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th and 17th InfantryUnion loss: 3,070 killed, 14,497 wounded, 5,434 captured and missing. Total, 23,001.
Source: Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources.Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908
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