The Pennsylvania Reserves

2nd Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

The Second Reserve Regiment was principally recruited in the city of Philadelphia, under the direction of William B. Mann, and the companies were mustered into the State service during the last week in...

3rd Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

The Third Reserve Regiment was organized principally from companies recruited in Bucks county and in the city of Philadelphia, for the three months' service, but which failed of acceptance. On the 30th...

5th Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

Comprised of men from Bradford, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lycoming, Northumberland and Union County. Organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 1861. The companies...

6th Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

Comprised of men from Bradford, Columbia, Dauphin, Franklin, Montour, Snyder, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wayne County. Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 1861. On the 22d of...

9th Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

The Ninth Regiment was organized at Camp Wright, near Pittsburg, on the 28th of June, 1861, under the direction of General McCall. Eight of the companies composing it were recruited in Allegheny county;...

11th Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

The companies comprising the Eleventh Reserve Regiment were recruited, A in the county of Cambria, B and E in Indiana, C and D in Butler, F in Fayette, G in Armstrong, H and I in Westmoreland, and K in...

12th Pennsylvania Reserves (Infantry)

The companies composing the Twelfth Regiment, raised primarily for the three months' service, but not accepted, rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, and were organized by the choice of the following field officers:...

1st Pennsylvania Rifles

Organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 21, 1861. On the 13th of April, 1861, Thomas L. Kane, brother of Dr. Kane, the famous Arctic explorer, and himself schooled by extensive...

1st Pennsylvania Reserve Light Artillery

Although initially formed with the intention of forming one cohesive regiment of Artillery, it was broken up by Battery and spread throughout various armies in the Eastern Theater of the War. The original...

1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

The first seven companies rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, where they were mustered into the State service during the months of July and August, 1861, and thence moved to Camp Jones, near Washington. Three...

Other Units Associated with the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps