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Sixty-Third Pennsylvania Infantry.
Graham's Brigade —
Birney's Division — Thire Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 4 | | 4 | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | 1 | 23 | 24 | | 13 | 13 | 151 |
| | B | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 103 |
| | C | | 10 | 10 | | 11 | 11 | 136 |
| | D | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 10 | 10 | 158 |
| | E | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 11 | 11 | 146 |
| | F | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 19 | 19 | 112 |
| | G | 2 | 25 | 27 | | 11 | 11 | 141 |
| | H | 3 | 22 | 25 | | 10 | 10 | 139 |
| | I | | 20 | 20 | | 11 | 11 | 132 |
| | K | 1 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 27 | 28 | 106 |
| Totals | 17 | 169 | 186 | 1 | 133 | 134 | 1,341 |
186 killed == 13.8 per cent.
Total killed and wounded, 721; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 27.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Skirmish, Va., Nov., 1861 | 1 | Gettysburg, Pa. | 3 |
| Pohick Church, Va. | 4 | Auburn Mills, Va. | 1 |
| Yorktown, Va. | 3 | Kelly's Ford, Va. | 2 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 37 | Mine Run, Va. | 1 |
| Skirmish, Va., June 21, 1862 | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 48 |
| Oak Grove, Va. | 3 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 5 |
| Glendale, Va. | 14 | North Anna, Va. | 4 |
| Manassas, Va. | 25 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 3 | Petersburg, Va. | 13 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 17 | | |
Present, also, at Seven Days;
Chantilly;
Totopotomoy.
notes.--Seven companies were recruited in
Pittsburg, or in its vicinity ; the others were from the western counties.
The regiment was organized in August, 1861, joining the army in October of the same year, where it was assigned to
Heintzelman's Division.
It performed outpost duty in
Virginia for several months, during which an affair occurred on the picket line in which
Captain Chapman and
Quartermaster Lysle were killed.
When the Third Corps moved to the
Peninsula the Sixty-third went there with its brigade (
Jameson's), and took part in some of the hardest fighting in that campaign.
At
Fair Oaks, with only eight companies in line, it held its position steadily in the face of a musketry fire which cut down over a hundred men; 23 were killed, 79 wounded, and 20 missing. At
Manassas,
Colonel Hays was severely wounded, the regiment losing 15 killed, 94 wounded, and 11 missing. It was hotly engaged again, at
Chancellorsville, where it lost many of its most valued officers.
In that battle,
Colonel Kirkwood,
Adjutant McGranahan, and four line officers were killed.
After the discontinuance of the Third Corps, with its gallant organization, the regiment was placed in
Hays's Brigade,
Birney's Division, Second Corps.
General Hays was killed at the
Wilderness, and in the same battle the Sixty-third lost 191 of its number killed or wounded, out of 485 in line.
Its term of service expired September 9, 1864.
The recruits and reenlisted men remaining in the field were transferred to the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, while the others, few in number, returned to their homes.
