Federal Regiment

9th Pennsylvania Reserves

"38th Pennsylvania Volunteers"
Organized: near Pittsburg, PA; mustered in 6/28/1861

Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
LCol. Robert Anderson
Capt. Samuel B. Dick

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

Unit history

At its organization in June 1861 field officers elected were: Conrad F. Jackson, Colonel; Robert Anderson, Lieutenant Colonel, and James M'Kinney Snodgrass, Major. The two former had seen service in the Mexican war. The latter was at the time Major General of the Eighteenth Division of the State militia.

By the 2nd battle of Bull Run, Colonel Jackson had been promoted to be a Brigadier General, and had been assigned to the command of the Third Brigade, the command of the regiment devolving upon Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, who was subsequently commissioned Colonel, to date from 15th of July, 1862.

On the Antietam Campaign

On September 14th at South Mountain the brigade commander, Col Gallagher, was wounded and LCol Anderson of the 9th assumed the Brigade command. The regiment command devloved on Capt Dick, Company F (Major Snodgrass being at the time sick in hospital at Washington).

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 #31: Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #11: Meade's Division, First Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #24: Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

More on the Web

See a fine site about the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves.

References & Notes

Source: Bates, Samuel P., History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg, 1868-1871.; Extracted online at the Pennsylvania in the Civil War site.

We have 74 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Bussing, Thomas D.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Chamberlain, H. H.	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Copley, John Sibbet	MWIA 09/14
A	Sgt	Darlington, Edward Powell	MWIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Forrest, William E.	MWIA 09/14
A	Pvt	McClurg, William	MWIA 09/14
A	Pvt	McElavey, James	MWIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Rodgers, George W.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Boeing, Richard	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Danner, Matthias	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Lerch, John	MWIA 09/14
B	Lt	Longbein, John	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Miller, Edward	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Naw, Jacob	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Raab, George	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Schumacher, A.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Barrett, John	WIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Mahaffey, Robert	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Scott, Alexander	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Snively, Joseph	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Swartzlander, Adam	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Adams, Samuel	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Aunks, William Washington	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bishop, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Conoby, Jacob	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Dowden, Samuel	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Fallenstein, Ernst Henry	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Johnston, Robert	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Marsh, Hiram	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	McDonald, George	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Reed, William	KIA 09/14
D	Corp	Shuster, John W.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Bargesser, Walker	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Bassett, Samuel	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Beatty, Henry	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brogan, Edward	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Carnahan, Jerome	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hopkins, John	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McClelland, Thomas	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Richey, John	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Rodgers, Hugh	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Barnes, Samuel	Died (d) 11/02
F	Pvt	Bingham, Lewis W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Chapman, Henry	KIA 09/17
F	Capt	Dick, Samuel Bernard
F	Corp	Grimes, William H.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	McCormick, David Bard	Died (d) 10/07
G	Corp	Chaffee, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Chambers, William W.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Johnson, Samuel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Rothermel, Peter	MWIA 09/17
H	Corp	Anderson, J. P.	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Andrews, James B.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Beatty, Walter L.	KIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Blanchard, Henry W.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Lemmon, Robert W.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McClain, Andrew	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Ness, Robert	MWIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Osburn, Edward	WIA 09/14
H	Corp	Vanlier, Dennis	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Baker, Samuel D.	KIA 09/14
I	Sgt	Ballentine, George W.
I	Pvt	Burt, Thomas	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Graham, David P.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Milligan, George	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Reiff, Jacob	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Barnett, John	KIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Chess, John A.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Chevalier, John	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Cochenaur, Jacob	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Dickson, William S.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Kingsland, John W.	MWIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Mullen, Jacob C.	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Anderson, Robert

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