The Civil War in the East

58th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

The 58th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 139 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

September 21 -
March

Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg

1862

March 1

Mustered in at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg

March 8-10

Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va. and attached to Camp Hamilton, Va., Dept. Virginia

May 10

Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth, attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of Virginia

July

Viele's Command, Norfolk, Va., Dept. Virginia

October 11

Ordered to Suffolk, Va. Attached to Foster's Provisional Brigade. Peck's Division, at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia

December

Attached to Gibb's Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Dept. Virginia

1863

January 5

Embarked for Beaufort, N. C. and moved to New Berne, and duty there. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina

February 12-13

Expedition to Core Creek

February 13

Sandy Ridge

March 6-8

Demonstration on Kinston

March 7

Near Dover

April 16-21

Expedition toward Kinston; Attached to Jourdan's Independent Brigade, Defenses of New Berne, Dept. North Carolina

April 17-18

Core Creek

April 20

Sandy Ridge

April 27-May 1

Demonstration on Kinston

April 28

Wise's Cross Roads and Dover Road

May 20-23

Demonstration on Kinston

May 22

Gum Swamp

May 23

Batchelor's Creek

June 26

Moved to Washington, N. C. and attached to District of Pamlico, 18th Army Corps, Dept. North Carolina

August

Attached to Sub-District Pamlico, District North Carolina, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

December 17

Co. B - Expedition from Washington to Chicora Creek

1864

January 1

Regiment reenlisted

January 27-28

Reconnaissance on Neuse River Road

April

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina

April 5

Detachment near Blount's Creek

April 28

Ordered to Yorktown, Va.

May 4-28

Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond

May 9-10

Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church

April 12-16

Operations against Fort Darling

May 14-16

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

May 17-28

Operations at Bermuda Hundred

May 28-June 1

Movement to White House, thence to Cold Harbor

June 1-12

Battles about Cold Harbor

June 15-18

Before Petersburg

June 16

Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond

June 24 and 28

Hare's Hill

June 24-August 25

Veterans on furlough

September 28-30

Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights

October 27-28

Fair Oaks

December

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia

1865

March 5-8

Expedition to Fredericksburg

March 11-13

Into Westmoreland County

March 13-18

Moved to White House

March 24-26

March to Signal Hill before Richmond

April 3

Occupation of Richmond

June

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 24th Corps

July

Attached to 2nd Independent Brigade, 24th Army Corps

August

At Staunton. Attached to District of Southwest Virginia

September

Sub-District Staunton, District Central Virginia, Dept. Virginia

November

At Charlottesville

1866

January 24

Mustered out