Pennsylvania Civil War Facts
Overall
Pennsylvania provided 337,936 of her sons for the war effort which translates to 8.8% (ranked 2nd out of 44 states and territories) of the total men who served on both sides of the conflict.
There were a total of ?? raids, skirmishes and battles in the state. Pennsylvania had 5 Union P.O.W. Camps at Allegheny Penitentiary (Pittsburgh and Western Penitentiarys), Camp Curtain, Chester, Fort Delaware, Fort Mifflin
Pennsylvania's State Flag is more of a square than a rectangle. It is composed of a blue field on which the State Coat of Arms is embroidered. Draft horses are on either side of the coat of arms and the American eagle rests on the top. The scroll at the bottom reads "Virtue Liberty and Independence".
The first state flag bearing the state coat of arms was authorized by the general assembly in 1799. An act of the general assembly of June 13, 1907, standardized the flag and required that the blue field match the blue of "Old Glory".
The Armies
| Union - 43 States and Territories | Union Army Deaths | |||
| Soldiers (White) recruited | 315,017 | Killed/Mortally Wounded | 15,265 | |
| Sailors/Marines (White) | 14,307 | Disease | 11,782 | |
| Colored Troops | 8,612 | Disease in Prison | 4,119 | |
| Total number of men recruited | 337,936 | Accidents/Drowning | 636 | |
| % of Union Army | 12.1% | Killed After Capture | 4 | |
| % of state's population | 14.3% | Murdered | 17 | |
| Overall rank | 2 | Suicide | 34 | |
| Sunstroke | 27 | |||
| Military Execution | 23 | |||
| Executed By Enemy | ?? | |||
| Known/Not Classified | 120 | |||
| Unknown | 1,156 | |||
| Total | 33,183 | |||
| Regiments of foreign-born soldiers | ||||
| 13th Cavalry: part-Irish Infantry: German 27th, 73rd, 75th, 98th Infantry Reserves: Irish 2nd (Co. C), 13th (Co. F), 24th, 69th, 106th (part) |
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| State Military Units | ||||
| Artillery | 9 regiments; 1 battalion; 17 batteries | |||
| Cavalry | 29 regiments; 2 battalions; 14 companies | |||
| Infantry | 198 regiments; 16 battalions; 14 companies | |||
| Engineer | 1 company | |||
Civil War Website Links
- Civil War Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives (portal.state.pa.us)
- Civil War links from fold3.com with original data from the National Archives:
- Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Pennsylvania - This is an alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers belonging to units from the State of Pennsylvania.
- Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index from Pennsylvania - Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900
- Pennsylvania Civil War "Widows' Pensions" - Approved pension applications of widows and other dependents of Civil War veterans who served between 1861 and 1910 from Pennsylvania.
- Barred and Disallowed Pennsylvania Claims - The Southern Claims Commission denied these claims by Pennsylvania citizens seeking compensation for property loss. They were barred or disallowed for a number of reasons. Original data from the National Archives
- Pennsylvania Civil War Maps - Maps, charts, and atlases depicting battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications in Pennsylvania during the Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Civil War links from ancestry.com:
- U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 - This database contains an index to compiled service records (CSRs) for soldiers who served with units in the Confederate army. Most of the men whose names appear in this index served with units from 15 different states or territories; others were soldiers raised directly by the Confederate government, generals and staff officers, and other enlisted men not associated with a regiment. Compiled service records are files of cards that abstract original military records relating to an individual soldier. A typical CSR will include an envelope that lists a soldier’s name, rank, unit, and card numbers, followed by cards with details extracted from muster rolls, rosters, hospital rolls, Union prison records, payrolls, and other records, with a new card being created each time a soldier’s name appeared on a new document. The CSRs may also include original documents pertaining to the soldier. The CSRs do not constitute an exhaustive list of all men who served in the Confederate army.
- U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865
- History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: a complete record of the organization, and of the different companies, regiments and brigades
- Red, white, and blue badge : Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers : a history of the 93rd Regiment, known as the "Lebanon Infantry"
- History of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865
- The history of Battery A (formerly known as the Keystone Battery) : and Troop A, N.G.P.
- Proceedings of the 41st annual encampment, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic
- The 48th in the war : being a narrative of the campaigns of the 48th Regiment, Infantry, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, durin
- History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-1865, Volumes 1 through 5 on CD by Samuel P. Bates
- Pennsylvania Civil War Books (amazon.com)
