Federal Regiment

8th Pennsylvania Reserves

Organized: Pittsburgh, PA; mustered in June 1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Pittsburgh, PA 5/24/1864

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
Maj. Silas M Baily

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - First Army Corps
  Division - 3rd Division, 1st Corps
  Brigade - 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps

Unit history

Also known as the 37th Regiment of the line, they were organized from infantry companies originally organized as 90-day units at Camp Wright near Pittsburgh in June 1861.

Statistics

Initial Strength: not known; Killed in Action (KIA): 29; Wounded (WIA): 81;

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #1: Hookers First Corps Sweeps Down the Hagerstown Pike (5-7 am)
Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)
Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #1: First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #15: Meade's Division, First Army Corps - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #16: Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #11: Meade's Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #12: Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

After the Antietam Campaign

The regiment mustered out of service at the end of their three year term in May 1864. New recruits and re-enlisting veterans were transferred to the 100th and 91st Pennsylvania Regiments.

References & Notes

Source: Bates, Samuel P., History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: 1868-1871, extracted online at Pennsylvania in the Civil War by Alice J. Gayley.

We have 55 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bolinger, Jacob	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Smith, Valentine	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Truby, Robert B.	KIA 09/17
B	Lt	Carter, William M.	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Everson, Jr., George R.	KIA 09/14
B	Corp	McCole, Neal	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	McGinnis, Bernard	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Steele, James	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Tracy, Michael	MWIA 09/14
C	Sgt	Cameron, Jacob C.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	James, Thomas	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Struble, Henry	WIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Booth, John F.	WIA 09/17
D	Capt	Conner, Cyrus L.
D	Sgt	Hill, Ashbel Fairchild	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Malone, David	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Page, Charles W.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Seese, David	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Stewart, William F.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Swearer, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Woodward, John	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bailey, John W.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brooks, George W.	KIA 09/14
E	Corp	Esters, Albert	KIA 09/14
E	Corp	Fitzsimmons, Peter	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Hand, Lawrence	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Harker, William	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Kelly, Michael	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Madara, Henry	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Moss, Charles	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Oldham, William Heap	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Bradley, James A.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Brown, George	MIA (r) 09/17
F	Pvt	Gates, James	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Holsinger, Franklin
F	Corp	Horton, George	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Kay, William H.	MWIA 09/14
F	Corp	Leichty, John Q.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Malone, William	Died (d) 10/24
F	Pvt	Moore, Charles	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Shaw, Matthew P.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Clark, James C.	WIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Barr, Daniel	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Basim, Calvin	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Brenneman, Hugh Reed	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hepinger, Wolfgang	KIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Noll, Jacob	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Peters, John	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Sipler, William	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Inghram, Clark	KIA 09/17
K	Corp	Dye, Theodore J.	KIA 09/17
K	Corp	Loafman, William	MWIA 09/14
K	Corp	McClure, Boyle I.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	McMiller, Robert.	WIA 09/17
F&S	Maj	Baily, Silas Milton

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