Pennsylvania 75th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
8/7/61
Organized - Pennsylvania 75th Volunteer Infantry - Pennsylvania
6/8/62
Battle - Cross Keys - Rockingham County, Virginia
Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont's and his 11,000-man Mountain Department army were tasked with keeping Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's two-division force engaged in the Shenandoah Valley and unable to join with Robert E. Lee's army defending Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign against the Confederate capital. In early June, Jackson's men under Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell were encamped in the vicinity of Cross Keys on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. Union screening cavalry approached Jackson f…READ MORE
12/13/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
ColonelWłodzimierz Krzyżanowski
12/13/62
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Carl Schurz
Brigadier GeneralCarl Schurz
12/13/62
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski
ColonelWlodzimierz Krzyzanowski
4/30/63
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Carl Schurz
Major GeneralCarl Schurz
4/30/63
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Wladimir Krzyzanowski
ColonelWladimir Krzyzanowski
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alexander Schimmelfennig, and Major General Carl Schurz
Brigadier GeneralAlexander Schimmelfennig
Major GeneralCarl Schurz
7/1/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Francis Mahler
ColonelFrancis Mahler
7/1/63
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
10/28/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Friedrich Hecker
ColonelFriedrich Hecker
10/28/63
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Carl Schurz
Major GeneralCarl Schurz
10/28/63
Battle - Wauhatchie - Hamilton County, Tennessee
Wary of troops marching to the aid of the Federal army besieged at Chattanooga, General Braxton Bragg ordered General James Longstreet to take action against the force massing in Lookout Valley. In a rare nighttime attack, a division of Longstreet's corps attacked the Union rearguard near the crossroads of Wauhatchie. The brief fight was a bloody repulse for the Confederates, who were forced to withdraw. The Confederates had missed their last best chance to prevent supplies from reaching the Union Army of…READ MORE
11/30/64
Battle - Franklin (1864) - Franklin, Tennessee
After allowing Maj. Gen. John Schofield's Army of the Ohio to pass him near Spring Hill, Tennessee, the previous morning, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood led his 30,000-man Army of Tennessee to the outskirts of Franklin on November 30th. Schofield's army had constructed a strong defensive line south of the town. Hood took a position two miles south of Schofield, with open, rolling farm land between them, and prepared to attack. At 4:00 p.m., over 20,000 Confederates moved forward east and west of the Columbia Pike…READ MORE
9/1/65
Mustered Out - Pennsylvania 75th Volunteer Infantry - Pennsylvania
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