Chronological List of Engagements
- September 25,1861...Mustered at Camp Curtain
South Carolina Campaign
2nd Brigade, Brig. General I. I. Stevens' Div,
General Thomas W. Sherman's Expeditiary Corps
- November 3-9, 1861 ... Battle of Port Royal
- December 6, 1861 ... Occupied Beaufort SC
- January 1, 1862 ... Port Royal Ferry
Battle of Coosaw
- May 29, 1862 ... Pocotanligo
Army of the Potomac
2nd Brigade, 1st Div, 9th Army Corps
General A. Burnside Cmdr 9th A.C.
- August 27, 1862 ... White Sulfur Spring, VA
- August 28,1862 ... Centerville
- August 29, 30, 31, 1862 ... Bull Run
- September 1, 1862 ... Battle of Chantilly
Maryland Campaign
1st Brigade, 1st Div, 9th Army Corps
Gen.
Willcox, 1st Div
- September 14,1862 ... South Mountain
- September 17,1862 ... Antietam Creek Burnsides Bridge segment of the battle
2nd Brigade, 1st Div, 9th Corps
- December 13, 1862 ... Fredricksburg
- March 22, 1863 ... moved to western theatre
Department of the Ohio
- June 8, 1863 - July 4 ... Vicksburg,
Miss
- July 10 - 16, 1863 ... Jackson, Miss
East Tennessee Campaign
- October 10, 1863 ... Blue Springs, Tenn.
- November 14, 1863 ... Hough's Ferry
- November 15, 1863 ... Campbell's Station
- November 17 - December 5, 1863 ... the siege of Knoxville
Army of the Potomac
2nd Brigade, 3rd Div, 9th Corps
- May 5-6, 1864 ... The Wilderness
,VA
- May 9, 1864 ... Nye River, VA
- May 12, 1864 ... Spotsylvania Court House, VA
- May 25, 1864 ... North Anna, VA
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May 30, 1864 ... Shady Grove Road
- June 1, 1864 ... Bethesda Church, VA
- June 2-7, 1864 ... Cold Harbor, VA
- June 15 - August 19, 1864 ... Petersburg, VA
- August 15, 1864 ... General Parke given command of 9th corps
- August 19, 1864 ... Weldon Railroad, VA
- August 20-21, 1864 ... Reams Station, VA
- August 25, 1864 ... Hatches Run, VA
- September 30, 1864 ... Poplar Spring Church, VA
- November 29, 1864 - March 24, 1865 ... Petersburg, VA
- March 25,1865 ... Ft.
Stedman, VA
- April 2-3, 1865 ... Petersburg, VA
- Fox's History of the 9th Corps
- 9th Corps Corps Badges
Some pictures
of the original 50th
Medals Of Honor
BROWN, CHARLES
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date: At
Weldon Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864.
Entered service at:------. Birth: Schuylkill County, Pa.
Date
of issue: 1 December 1864.
Citation: Capture of flag of 47th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.).
HILL, HENRY
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date: At
Wilderness, Va., 6 May 1864.
Entered service at: -----. Birth: Schuylkill County, Pa.
Date of issue: 23 September 1897.
Citation: This soldier, with one companion, would not retire
when his regiment fell back in confusion after an unsuccessful charge,
but instead advanced and continued firing upon the enemy until the
regiment re-formed and regained its position.
Letters home from a 50th PVI private in SC,1861&62
Inscription on sword scabbard given to Lt Henry Alspach Co "A"
new pictures courtesy of Herb Gopstein
Books
50th Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteer Infantry
.... fact .... "This
distinguished regiment is included as one of
William F. Fox's (circa 1889)
top 300 Union Fighting Regiments."
50th Pennsylvania, "History of the Fiftieth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, 1861-65," by Lewis Crater.
Originally published in 1884, at Reading Pennsylvania,
this book may
prove difficult to locate.
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