The Civil War in the East

84th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

The 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 119 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 98 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg

1861

August - October

Organized at Huntingdon and Camp Curtin

November-
December

At Camp Curtin, Pa.

1862

December 31-
January 2

Moved to Hancock, Md., then to Bath

January 4

Action at Bath

January 5

At Hancock. Attached to 1st Brigade, Lander's Division, Army Potomac

January 10-12

Retreat to Cumberland, Md.

January-March

Duty guarding North and South Branch Bridges and at Paw Paw Tunnel

March

Attached to 1st Brigade, Shield's 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Corps

March 5-15

Advance on Winchester, Va.

March 23

Battle of Winchester

April

Attached to 1st Brigade, Shield's Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah

April 17

Occupation of Mt. Jackson

April 18- May 2

Provost at Berryville

May

Attached to 4th Brigade, Shield's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

May 12-22

March to Fredericksburg

May 25-29

Return to Front Royal

May 31

Action near Front Royal

June 8-9

Port Republic

June 29

Moved to Alexandria and duty there attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain

August 16-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 20-24

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 28

Thoroughfare Gap

August 29

Battles of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September

Duty at Arlington Heights, Defenses of Washington, Whipple's Command, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac

October 18

Moved to Pleasant Valley, Md.

October 24-November 19

To Warrenton and Falmouth

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March"

February-April

At Falmouth, Va.

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

June 11-July-24

Gettysburg Campaign. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps

July 1-3

Guarding Corps' trains during battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Milton Opp. It mustered 240 men and suffered no casualties.

 

From the monument: "July 1. The regiment was on duty guarding the division wagon trains. Moved with the column on the road from Taneytown to Emmitsburg and on the opening of the battle was ordered with the train to Westminster Md. where it arrived July 2d at 7 a.m. and picketed the roads near the wagon parks until the close of the battle."

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

July 23

Wapping Heights, Va.

August-October

Duty on line of the Rappahannock

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Kelly's Ford

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Payne's Farm

1864

January

Regiment reenlisted

February 6-7

Demonstration on the Rapidan

February-May

Duty near Brandy Station

March

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps

May 4-June 12

Rapidan Campaign. Attached to 4th Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 12-21

Spottsylvania C. H.

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 19

Harris Farm

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 26-28

Line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

May 31

Haw's Shop

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-18

Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins

June 22-23

Weldon Railroad

July

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps

July 27-29

Demonstration north of James River at Deep Bottom

July 27-28

Deep Bottom

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve)

August 13-20

Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom

August 14-18

Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom

September 29-October 2

Peeble's Farm, Poplar Grove Church

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

1865

January 13

Consolidated with 57th Pennsylvania Infantry