The 183rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 92 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 89 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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December 24 |
Organized at Philadelphia under Colonel George P. McLean, Lt. Colonel William Powell and Major John Reynolds |
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March 8 |
Ordered to join Army of the Potomac on the Rapidan, Va., and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps |
May 3 |
Colonel McLean resigns |
May 4-June 12 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Corbin's Bridge |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania
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May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient
The regiment lost 10 killed and 5 mortally wounded, including Captain John Hutt and Lieutenant John Ottinger |
May 18 - 20 |
Lt. Colonel Powell and Major Reynolds resign due to differences with Brigadier General Nelson Miles |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 21 |
Captain James C. Lynch of the 106th Pennsylvania is appointed lieutenant colonel in command of the 183rd. |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad |
July 19 |
Lt. Colonel Lynch is promoted to colonel |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
July 31 |
Captain George T. Egbert of Company A is promoted to major |
August |
Veterans and recruits from the mustered out 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry join the regiment, giving the regiment a a size permitting it a full complement of field officers |
August 8 |
Major Egbert is promoted to lieutenant colonel |
August 9 |
Captain Augustine Lynch of Company D promoted to major |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
October 6 |
Colonel Lynch is discharges at the experiation of his term |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 4 |
Lt. Colonel Egbert is promoted to colonel and Major Lynch to lieutenant colonel |
December 9-10 |
Reconnaissance to Hatcher's Run |
December 24 |
Captain Horace P. Ebert of Company A promoted to major |
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February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 25 |
Watkins' House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign. attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps |
March 30-31 |
Hatcher's Run or Boydton Road |
March 31 |
White Oak Road |
April 2 |
Sutherland Station |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
High Bridge, Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 2-12 |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
July 13 |
Mustered out under Colonel Egbert, Lt. Colonel Lynch and Major Ebert |
