The Civil War in the East

63rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

The regiment lost 17 officers and 169 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 133 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

August

Organized at Pittsburg

August 26

Left State for Washington, D. C. Attached to Jameson's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army Potomac for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C.

November 12

Reconnaissance to Pohick Church and the Occoquan

1862

March 5

Pohick Church and the Occoquan (Detachment)

March 16-18

Moved to the Peninsula. attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 31-June 1

Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines)

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 25

Oak Grove

June 30

Glendale

July 1

Malvern Hill

July-August

Duty at Harrison's Landing

August 16-26

Movement to Centreville. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps

August 27

Bristoe Station or Kettle Run and Buckland's Bridge, Broad Run

August 29

Battles of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September-October

Duty in the Defenses of Washington and guarding fords in Maryland

October 11-November 19

March up the Potomac to Leesburg, then to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

Burnside's second Campaign, "Mud March"

February-April

At Falmouth

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Major John A. Danks. It brought 296 men to the field and lost 1 killed, 29 wounded and 4 missing.

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

July 23

Whapping Heights, Va.

August-September

Duty on line of the Rappahannock

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

October 13-14

Auburn and Bristoe

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Kelly's Ford

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Payne's Farm

1864

February 6-7

Demonstration on the Rapidan

March

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps

May 4-June 12

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 10

Po River

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 19

Harris' Farm

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

Line of the Pamunkey

May 29-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-18

Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins

June 22-23

Weldon Railroad

July 27-29

Demonstration on north side of the James River at Deep Bottom

July 27-28

Deep Bottom

July 30

Mine Explosion (Reserve)

August 13-20

Demonstration on north side of the James

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom

September 5

Veterans and Recruits transferred to 105th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

September 9

Mustered out