United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The 85th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 7 officers and 90 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 146 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| October 16 | Organized at Uniontown |
| November 12 | Left State for Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Casey’s Division, Army Potomac for duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. |
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1862
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| March | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va |
| March 28 | Moved to the Peninsula |
| April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 24-27 | Reconnaissance to Seven Pines |
| May 24 | Skirmishes at Seven Pines, Savage Station and Chickahominy |
| May 29 | Seven Pines |
| May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks |
| June | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps |
| June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond |
| June 30 | Brackett’s |
| July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
| July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 16-23 | Moved to Fortress Monroe |
| September 18 | To Suffolk, attached to Wessell’s Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
| October 3 | Reconnaissance to Franklin on the Blackwater |
| December 4 | Ordered to New Berne, N. C. |
| December 10-21 | Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina |
| December 13-14 | Southwest Creek |
| December 14 | Kinston |
| December 16 | Whitehall |
| December 17 | Goldsboro |
| December | Duty at New Berne, N. C. attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
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1863
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| January 28-31 | Moved to Port Royal, S.C.; at St. Helena Island, S. C. |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of the South |
| April | At Folly Island, S.C. attached to Folly Island, S. C., 10th Corps, Dept. South |
| June | Attached to 1st Brigade, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
| July 10 | Attack on Morris Island. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
| July 11 and 18 | Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris, Island, S.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
| July 18 | Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston |
| September 7 | Duty on Morris and Folly Islands operating against Charleston |
| October | Attached to Howell’s Brigade, Gordon’s Division, Folly Island, S.C., 10th Corps |
| December | Moved to Hilton Head, S. C., and duty there and attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., 10th Corps |
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1864
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| February 22 | Expedition to Whitemarsh Island, Ga. |
| April | Moved to Gloucester Point, Va. attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 4-28 | Butler’s operations on south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond |
| May 9 | Ware Bottom Church |
| May 9-10 | Swift Creek or Arrow field Church |
| May 12-16 | Proctor’s Creek and operations against Fort Darling |
| May 14-16 | Battle of Drewry’s Bluff |
| May 17-30 | Operations on Bermuda Hundred front |
| May 20 | Ware Bottom Church |
| June 16-17 | Port Walthal, beginning of siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| June 20 | Ware Bottom Church |
| August 13-20 | Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom |
| August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
| September 28-30 | Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights |
| October 7 | Darbytown Road |
| October 27-28 | Battle of Fair Oaks |
| November 22 | Mustered out. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 188th Pennsylvania Infantry. |