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37th
Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry, 8th PA Reserve
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37th
Pennsylvania Infantry, 8th PA Reserve Soldier Roster - History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1861-5, Volume 1 by Samuel P Bates, 1869
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| Regimental History |
| Thirty-seventh Infantry. — Cols., George S. Hays, Silas
M. Bailey; Lieut.-Cols., S. Duncan Oliphant, William Lemon; Majs., J. B.
Gardner, J. W. Duncan, S. M. Bailey, Robert E. Johnston, George S.
Gallupe. The 37th, the 8th reserve regiment, was organized at Pittsburg
and there mustered into the U. S. service for a three years' term on
June 28, 1861. It rendezvoused at Camp Wright, near Pittsburg, until
ordered to Washington on July 20, and there encamped until Aug. 2, when
it reported to Gen. McCall at Tennallytown and was assigned to the 1st
brigade, Pa. reserve corps, under Brig.-Gen. John F. Reynolds. Winter
quarters were established at Langley, Va., and the brigade encamped
there from Oct. 9, 1861, to the spring of 1862, when it was attached to
the 1st corps and held at Washington until the other troops had embarked
for the Peninsula. Late in May the regiment joined the army and took
part in the battle of Mechanicsville, with great loss, and also in the
battle of Gaines' mill, but was in reserve at Malvern hill. In August it
joined Gen. Pope's army and shared in the battle of the second Bull Run.
Then, under McClellan, it fought at South mountain and Antietam, and was
at Fredericksburg under Gen. Burnside. In all these fierce engagements
the 37th fought nobly and became tried and reliable veterans. In the
advance at Fredericksburg the conduct of the command was heroic, but
after the day was over only half of the regiment was able to report for
duty. On Feb. 8, 1863, the 37th was ordered with the rest of the
reserves to the defenses of Washington for a needed rest, and here it
was stationed until April 19, 1864, when it left for the front. After a
week in camp at Bristoe Station it shared in the battle of the
Wilderness, and in the subsequent actions of that campaign until May 17,
when it was relieved, the veterans and recruits were transferred to the
191st Pa. infantry, and the remainder ordered home. The regiment was
mustered out at Pittsburg, May 24, 1864. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 1
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