The 85th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 90 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 146 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
October 16 |
Organized at Uniontown |
November 12 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey's Division, Army Potomac for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. |
1862 |
March |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va |
March 28 |
Moved to the Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 24-27 |
Reconnaissance to Seven Pines |
May 24 |
Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy |
May 29 |
Seven Pines |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 30 |
Brackett's |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-23 |
Moved to Fortress Monroe |
September 18 |
To Suffolk, attached to Wessell's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
October 3 |
Reconnaissance to Franklin on the Blackwater |
December 4 |
Ordered to New Berne, N. C. |
December 10-21 |
Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
December 13-14 |
Southwest Creek |
December 14 |
Kinston |
December 16 |
Whitehall |
December 17 |
Goldsboro |
December
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Duty at New Berne, N. C. attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
1863 |
January 28-31 |
Moved to Port Royal, S.C.; at St. Helena Island, S. C. |
February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of the South |
April |
At Folly Island, S.C. attached to Folly Island, S. C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
June |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 10 |
Attack on Morris Island. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 11 and 18 |
Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris, Island, S.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
July 18 |
Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston |
September 7 |
Duty on Morris and Folly Islands operating against Charleston |
October |
Attached to Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
December |
Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., and duty there and attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps |
1864 |
February 22 |
Expedition to Whitemarsh Island, Ga. |
April |
Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
May 4-28 |
Butler's operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
May 9 |
Ware Bottom Church |
May 9-10 |
Swift Creek or Arrow field Church |
May 12-16 |
Proctor's Creek and operations against Fort Darling |
May 14-16 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff |
May 17-30 |
Operations on Bermuda Hundred front |
May 20 |
Ware Bottom Church |
June 16-17 |
Port Walthal, beginning of siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
June 20 |
Ware Bottom Church |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
September 28-30 |
Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights |
October 7 |
Darbytown Road |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
November 22 |
Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 188th Pennsylvania Infantry. |
