Federal Regiment

72nd Pennsylvania Infantry

"Baxter's Fire Zouaves, 3rd California"
Organized: Philadelphia, PA; mustered in 8/10/1861

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. DeWitt C. Baxter

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps

Unit history

Why California?

The 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was originally raised in Philadelphia by Colonel Edward D. Baker, as an effort to have the state of California represented by regiments in the Union Army. There were four regiments in the California Brigade. The 72nd was originally named the 3rd California Volunteer Infantry Regiment from August 1861 to October 1861. At that time, with the death of the brigade commander, Colonel Baker [Balls Bluff], the state of Pennsylvania reclaimed the brigade and renumbered the regiments as the 69th, 71st, 72nd and 106th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiments. Since all four regiments were predominantly raised in Philadelphia, they were brigaded together as the Philadelphia Brigade. This was the only brigade, throughout the Civil War, in the Union Army to bear its city's name.

Taken from: Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Frank H. Taylor, published by the City of Philadelphia in 1913. - found online at the 72nd Pennsylvania reenactor's site

Statistics

Initial Strength: not known; Killed in Action (KIA): 38; Wounded (WIA): 163; Missing in Action (MIA): 36;

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #116: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #36: Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #39: Howard's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM

We have 87 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bateman, Amos	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Blight, George	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Bowers, John	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Clark, John	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Curnan, John	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Edwards, William	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Evans, Tyson	KIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Gartland, John	KIA 09/17
A	Lt	Peabody, Adolphus William	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Pike, Theodore	MIA (n) 09/17
A	Pvt	Shaw, Albert J.	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Butler, William H.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McBride, John F.	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Murrow, William	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Walto, George M.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Blatteau, Phillip	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	McAleer, Philip	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Taney, Washington	MWIA 09/17
C	Capt	Willitts, Peter H.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anderson, George L.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bennett, William R.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Boyle, James	MIA (r) 09/17
D	Pvt	Conner, Edmund	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Cornwall, John	MIA (n) 09/17
D	Pvt	Etchells, Isaac	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Harrigan, James	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hesson, Bernard	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Longyear, Ernest	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Martin, Francis	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McCanna, John J.	MIA (n) 09/17
D	Pvt	Neel, Joseph Thomas	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Nock, William H. H.	KIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Ball, Samuel L.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Collier, Edmund Yates	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Cooper, Charles C.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Huntley, Louis D.	KIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Place, William	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bauder, John Franklin	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Baxter, David	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Berg, William H.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Henry, Joseph	KIA 09/17
F	Corp	Mackin, Peter	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Martin, William R.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	McAfee, William	KIA 09/17
F	Capt	McBride, Isaac	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Slaven, Thomas	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bodine, Eugene	WIA 09/17
G	Corp	Campbell, James	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Clark, James E.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Miller, Isaiah	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Mireer, William	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Oppenlander, Jacob	WIA 09/17
G	Capt	Roussel, Edward G.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Starr, James	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Baitzel, John J.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Baker, Harry S.	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Charlton, George	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Prior, William	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Wells, Charles B.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Barger, William	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brink, Samuel	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brown, George	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brown, James A.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Campbell, Daniel	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cottrell, Edwin	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Dawson, William	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Dotter, Albert H.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hollingsworth, John	MWIA 09/17
I	Corp	Huber, Edward	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Humphries, John	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Reid, John	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Rever, Jacob	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Schutler, Bernard	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Cutler, Frederick Robinson	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Fulton, Edward Allison	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Carroll, John J.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Shoemaker, William G.	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Smith, James P.	KIA 09/17
L	Corp	Taylor, Benjamin Franklin	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Thompson, Charles M.	MWIA 09/17
M	Corp	Anob, Isadon	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Brown, John	MIA (r) 09/17
M	Pvt	Gibb, Davis A.	KIA 09/17
N	Pvt	Clark, John	MWIA 09/14
P	Sgt	Warren, Joseph	KIA 09/17
R	Lt	Park, Jr., Robert J.	MWIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Baxter, DeWitt Clinton

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