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85th Pennsylvania Regiment

Recruited in Washington County, Fayette County, Greene County, Somerset County, PA

85th PA Regiment Soldier Biographies

• Elijah Chorpenning
• Bishop Crumrine
• Ewing Hook
• Thomas McKean
• Martin Pope
• Manaen Sharp

98th PA Regiment Newspaper Transcription

• Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1862
  List of Killed and Wounded at Williamsburg...
  

85th PA Regiment Companies

• Bates' Regimental History & Rosters
  
  

85th PA Regiment Books

• History of the Eighty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  1861-1865: Comprising an Authentic Narrative of Casey's Division at the Battle of Seven Pines (available at Amazon.com)
• History of the Eighty-fifty regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry,
  1861-1865, comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines, by Luther S. Dickey. (Available online)
  
  
• The Bloody 85th:
  The Letters of Milton McJunkin, a Western Pennsylvania Soldier in the Civil War

85th PA Regiment Organization, Service & Battles

Organization

• Organized at Uniontown October 16 to November 12, 1861.
• Left State for Washington, D.C.
• Attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey's Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to June, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to September, 1862.
• Wessell's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to December, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to February, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1863.
• Folly Island, S. C., 10th Corps, Dept. South, to June, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to July, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, July, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to October, 1863.
• Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps, to December, 1863.
• District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps, to April, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to November, 1864.

  Service & Battles - 1862

• Duty in the Defences of Washington, D. C., till March, 1862.
• Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
• Moved to the Peninsula March 28.
• Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
• Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
• Reconnoissance to Seven Pines May 24-27.
• Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy May 24.
• Seven Pines May 29.
• Battle of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, May 31-June 1.
• Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
• Brackett's June 30.
• Malvern Hill July 1.
• At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
• Moved to Fortress Monroe August 16-23, thence to Suffolk September 18,
• And duty there till December.
• Reconnoissance to Franklin on the Blackwater October 3.
• Ordered to New Berne, N. C., December 4.
• Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro December 10-21.
• Southwest Creek December 13-14.
• Kinston December 14.
• Whitehall December 16.
• Goldsboro December 17.

  Service & Battles - 1863

• Duty at New Berne, N. C., till January, 1863.
• Moved to Port Royal, S.C., January 28-31.
• At St. Helena Island, S. C., till April.
• At Folly Island, S.C., till July.
• Attack on Morris Island July 10.
• Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris, Island, S.C., July 11 and 18.
• Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island,
• And operations against Fort Sumpter and Charleston July 18-September 7.
• Duty on Morris and Folly Islands operating against Charleston till December.
• Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., and duty there till April, 1864.
• Expedition to Whitmarsh Island, Ga., February 22.
• Moved to Gloucester Point, Va., April.
• Butler's operations on south side of James River and
• against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28.
• Ware Bottom Church May 9.
• Swift Creek or Arrow field Church May 9-10.
• Proctor's Creek and operations against Fort Darling May 12-16.
• Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 14-16.
• Operations on Bermuda Hundred front May 17-30.
• Ware Bottom Church May 20.
• Port Walthal June 16-17.

  Service & Battles - 1864

• Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16 to November 22, 1864.
• Ware Bottom Church June 20.
• Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom August 13-20.
• Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18.
• Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30.
• Darbytown Road October 7.
• Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28.
• Mustered out November 22, 1864.
• Veterans and Recruits transferred to 188th PA Regiment Infantry.
• 7 Officers and 90 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 146 Enlisted men by disease. Total 247.

85th PA Regiment Medal of Honor Recipients

• LEONARD, WILLIAM E.: Jacksonville, (now Jacktown) Greene County, Pa. Private, Company F, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry. Deep Bottom, Va., 16 April 1864. Citation given 6 April 1865 for capture of battle flag. Buried at Presbyterian Cemetery in Wind Ridge, Greene County, Pa.
  
  
• MORRISON, FRANCIS: Private, Company H, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry. Bermuda Hundred, Va., 17 June 1864. Citation given: 2 August 1897. Voluntarily exposed himself to a heavy fire to bring off a wounded comrade.
  
  
• SHELLENBERGER, JOHN S.: Corporal, Company B, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry. Deep Run, Va., 16 August 1864. Citation given: 6 April 1865. Capture of flag.