title: 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
text: # 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
  
  The 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Lebanon, Pennsylvania from September 21 through October 28, 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel James Mayland McCarter.
  
  The regiment was attached to Peck's Brigade, Couch's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to November 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, VI Corps, to January 1864. Wheaton's Brigade, Department of West Virginia, to March 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Army of the Shenandoah, to June 1865.
  
  The 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out of service June 27, 1865.
  
  ## Detailed service
  
  1861
  
  September 21 through October 28 - Regiment formed and mustered into service for a three-year enlistment, Lebanon Pa.
  
  Nov 21 - Left Pennsylvania for Washington, D.C.
  
  1862
  
  Duty in the defenses of Washington until March 1862
  
  March 10-15 - Advance on Manassas, Va.
  
  March 25 - Moved to the Peninsula
  
  April 5-May 4 - Siege of Yorktown
  
  May 5 - Battle of Williamsburg
  
  May 20-23 - Reconnaissance to the Chickahominy and Bottom's Bridge
  
  May 31-June 1 - Battle of Seven Pines
  
  June 25-July 1 - Seven Days before Richmond
  
  June 27 - Seven Pines
  
  July 1 - Malvern Hill
  
  At Harrison's Landing until August 16
  
  August 16-30 - Movement to Alexandria, then to Centreville
  
  August 30-September 1 - Covered Pope's retreat to Fairfax Court House
  
  September 1 - Chantilly
  
  September 6-24 - Maryland Campaign
  
  September 12-14 - Reconnaissance to Harpers Ferry and Sandy Hook
  
  September 16-17 - Battle of Antietam (reserve)
  
  September 23-October 20 - At Downsville, Md.
  
  October 20-November 18 - Movement to Stafford Court House
  
  December 5 - Movement to Belle Plains
  
  December 12-15 - Battle of Fredericksburg
  
  1863
  
  January 20-24 - Burnside's second campaign, "Mud March"
  
  At Falmouth until April
  
  April 27-May 6 - Chancellorsville Campaign
  
  April 29-May 2 - Operations at Franklin's Crossing, Fredericksburg
  
  May 3 - Maryes Heights
  
  May 3-4 - Salem Heights
  
  May 4 - Banks' Ford
  
  June 13-July 24 - Gettysburg Campaign
  
  July 2-4 - Battle of Gettysburg
  
  July 5-24 - Pursuit of Lee
  
  Duty on the line of the Rappahannock until October
  
  October 9-22 - Bristoe Campaign
  
  November 7-8 - Advance to line of the Rappahannock
  
  November 7 - Rappahannock Station
  
  November 26-December 2 - Mine Run Campaign
  
  1864
  
  February 7, 1864 - Regiment reenlisted
  
  Duty at Brandy Station until May
  
  May 4-June 12 - Rapidan Campaign
  
  May 5-7 - Battle of the Wilderness
  
  May 8-21 - Spotsylvania
  
  May 12 - Assault on the Salient
  
  May 23-26 - North Anna River
  
  May 26-28 - On line of the Pamunkey
  
  May 28-31 - Totopotomoy
  
  June 1-12 - Cold Harbor
  
  Before Petersburg June 17-18
  
  Siege of Petersburg until July 9
  
  June 22-23 - Jerusalem Plank Road
  
  July 9-11 - Moved to Washington. D.C.
  
  July 11-12 - Defense of Washington against Early's attack
  
  July 14-18 - Pursuit to Snicker's Gap
  
  Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December
  
  August 21-22 - Charlestown
  
  September 13 - Demonstration on Gilbert's Ford, Opequan Creek
  
  September 19 - Battle of Opequan
  
  September 21 - Strasburg
  
  September 22 - Fisher's Hill
  
  October 19 - Battle of Cedar Creek
  
  Duty in the Shenandoah Valley until December
  
  December 9-12 - Moved to Petersburg
  
  Dec 1864-1865
  
  Siege of Petersburg December 1864 to April 1865
  
  February 5-7 - Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run
  
  March 25 - Fort Stedman, Petersburg
  
  March 28-April 9 - Appomattox Campaign
  
  April 2 - Assault on and fall of Petersburg
  
  April 3-9 - Pursuit of Lee
  
  April 9 - Appomattox Court House
  
  Surrender of Lee and his army
  
  April 23-27 - Marched to Danville and duty there until May 23
  
  May 23-June 3 - Moved to Richmond, Va., then to Washington. D.C.
  
  June 8 - Corps review
  
  June 27, 1865 - Regiment was mustered out of service
  
  ## Casualties
  
  The regiment lost a total of 274 men during service; 11 officers and 161 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 111 enlisted men died of disease.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel James Mayland McCarter - discharged November 29, 1862; re-mustered April 1, 1863 and resigned August 21, 1863
  * Colonel John M. Mark - commanded at the Battle of Fredericksburg while at the rank of lieutenant colonel; discharged May 21, 1863
  * Colonel Charles W. Eckman
  * Lieutenant Colonel David C. Keller - commanded at the Battle of Cedar Creek while still at the rank of captain; commanded at the Battle of Fort Stedman
  * Major John I. Nevin - commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg
  * Captain John S. Long - commanded at the Battle of Chancellorsville
  * 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument (1884), Sedgwick Avenue, Gettysburg Battlefield
  * 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument (1888), Weikert Farm, Gettysburg Battlefield
  