The 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 43 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 173 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
November 5 |
Organized at Harrisburg |
November 8 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to 1st Brigade, Casey's Division, Army Potomac |
1862 |
March |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 28 |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 19-20 |
Bottom's Bridge |
May 20-23 |
Operations about Bottom's Bridge |
May 24-27 |
Reconnaissance to Seven Pines |
May 24 |
Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) |
June |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps |
June 13-26 |
At Bottom's Bridge |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 28-29 |
Bottom's Bridge |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp Bridge |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-20 |
Moved to Yorktown and duty there |
December |
Attached to Naglee's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina |
December 11-15 |
Expedition to Gloucester, Matthews, King and Queen and Middlesex Counties |
December 31 |
Ordered to Beaufort, N. C. |
1863 |
January |
At Carolina City attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina |
January 28-31 |
Moved to Port Royal, S.C. |
February 10-
April 4 |
At St. Helena Island, S.C., attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of the South |
April 4-15 |
Operations against Charleston |
April |
Duty at Beaufort, S. C. attached to District of Beaufort, S. C., 10th Corps, Dept. of the South |
July 6 |
Moved to Folly Island; attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 9-16 |
Expedition to James Island, S.C. |
July 16 |
Operations on Morris and Folly Islands, S.C., attached to Davis' Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 18 |
Operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and Fort Sumter and Charleston |
August |
Attached to 5th Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
September 7 |
Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg |
September-April |
Operations against Charleston |
November |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
December 31 |
Regiment reenlisted |
1864 |
April |
Duty at Hilton Head, S.C. attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. South |
May 11 |
Reconnaissance to Dafuskie Island. Moved to Morris Island, S.C., and operations against Charleston |
June |
Attached to Morris Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South |
July 3 |
Assault on Fort Johnson and Battery Simpkins, James Island |
October |
Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., Dept. South |
1865 |
February 18 |
Occupation of Charleston and duty in Charleston Harbor. |
March |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division. 23rd Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina |
April 18 |
Ordered to North Carolina and duty at Salisbury |
July 12 |
Mustered out |
