The Civil War in the East

137th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

The 137th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 58 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Antietam.

Monument to the 137th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1862

August 25

Organized at Harrisburg for nine months service under Colonel Henry M. Bossert, Lt. Colonel Joseph B. Kiddoo and Major Charles W. Wingard. Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September

Maryland Campaign

September 10-11

Sugar Loaf Mountain

September 14

Crampton's Gap

September 17

Antietam

Commanded at Antietam by Colonel Henry M. Bossert.

September

Duty in Maryland

November

In Defenses of Washington, D. C.

December

At Aquia Creek, Va. attached to Provisional Brigade, Aquia Creek, Va., Patrick's Command, Army of the Potomac

1863

January

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

January 20-24

Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March,"

February-April

Duty at Belle Plains

March 14

Colonel Bossert resigned. Joseph Kiddoo is promoted to colonel and Charles Wingard to lieutenant colonel, and Captain DeLos Walker of Company B is promoted to major.

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek

May 2-5

Chancellorsville

 

Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa.

June 1

Mustered out under Colonel Kiddoo