1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment

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1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment
(30th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry)
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30th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
ActiveJune 9, 1861 to June 10, 1864
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Seven Days Battles
Battle of Mechanicsville
Battle of Gaines's Mill
Battle of Savage's Station
Battle of Glendale
Battle of Malvern Hill
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of South Mountain
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Bristoe Campaign
Mine Run Campaign
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of North Anna
Battle of Cold Harbor

The 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 30th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was a regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Pennsylvania Reserve division in the Army of the Potomac for much of the war, and served in the Eastern Theater in a number of important battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg.

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Organization

CompanyMonikerPrimary Location of RecruitmentCaptains
AThe Brandywine Guards Chester County Henry M. McIntire

Mott Hooton

BThe Union Guards Lancaster Thomas B. Barton
CThe Keystone Guards
The Silfer Phalanx [1] 		Chester, Delaware County Samuel E. Dyer
Joseph R. T. Coates
Edward Larkin [1]
DThe Safe Harbor Artillery Lancaster County George H. Hess
EThe Lancaster GuardsLancaster CountyAldus J. Neff
FThe Rockdale Rifle GuardsCrozerville and Rockdale, Delaware County William C. Talley
Joseph P. Drew
Henry Huddleson [1]
GThe Phoenix ArtilleryChester CountyJohn R. Dobson
HThe Carlisle Light Infantry Cumberland County Robert McCartney
IThe Carlisle GuardsCumberland County Lemuel Todd
KThe Adams County Infantry Adams County Edward McPherson [2]

Service

The 1st Pennsylvania Reserves were assembled at Camp Wayne near West Chester, Pennsylvania [3] on June 9, 1861, and mustered into the service on July 26, 1861, at Camp Carroll near Baltimore, Maryland [4] under the command of Colonel Richard Biddle Roberts and Lieutenant Colonel Henry McIntire.

The regiment was attached to the following throughout the war:

The 1st Pennsylvania Reserves mustered out June 10, 1864. [4]

Detailed service

Moved to Harrisburg, Pa., July 20; then reported to General Dix at Baltimore, Md., July 22, 1861. Moved to Annapolis, Md., July 27. Duty at Annapolis, Md., July 27 to August 30, 1861. Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Tennallytown, Md., August 30–31. Marched to Langley October 10, and duty at Camp Pierpont until March 1862. Reconnaissance to Dranesville December 6, 1861. Action at Dranesville December 20 (Company A). Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10–15. McDowell's advance on Fredericksburg, Va., April 9–19. Duty at Fredericksburg until May 31. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula June. Seven Days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Mechanicsville June 26, Gaines Mill June 27, Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30, and Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Movement to join Pope August 16–26. Battle of Groveton August 29. Second Battle of Bull Run August 30. Maryland Campaign September 6–24. Battle of South Mountain September 14. Battle of Antietam September 16–17. Duty in Maryland until October 30. Movement to Falmouth October 30-November 19. Battle of Fredericksburg, December 12–15. "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863. Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the defenses there until June 25. Rejoined the Army of the Potomac. Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3. Pursuit of Lee July 5–24. Williamsport July 13. Bristoe Campaign October 9–22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7–8. Rappahannock Station November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Mine Run November 26–30. Rapidan Campaign May and June 1864. Battle of the Wilderness May 5–7; Laurel Hill May 8; Spotsylvania May 8–12; Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21. Assault on the Salient May 12. Harris Farm May 19. North Anna River May 23–26. Jericho Ford May 25. Line of the Pamunkey May 26–28. Totopotomoy May 28–31. Left front June 1.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 174 men during service; 6 officers and 102 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 64 enlisted men died of disease. [4]

Among the fallen was Lieutenant Colonel McIntire, who was wounded and captured at the Battle of Glendale and died of his wounds six months later. [5]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Wiley, Samuel T. (1894). Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. New York: Gresham Publishing Company. p.  70 . Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Sypher 1865, p. 64.
  3. ↑ Ent 2014, p. 3.
  4. 1 2 3 Dyer 1908, p. 1577.
  5. ↑ Yale University (1870). Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College, Deceased from July, 1859, to July, 1870. New Haven, CT: Printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. pp. 104–105.

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