Under The Red Patch: Story Of The Sixty Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-1864 (63Rd Pennsylvania Regimental History) Hays, Gilbert Adams, Compiled By Military,Military History,Unit Histories

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 476, (3) pgs, portrait plates and additional illustrations. “Company History and Roster” (281)-407 pgs, 3 pgs appendix of music (“Bully for You”). Original decorative cloth with red and white gilt on blue cloth; gilt titled cover and spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light cover soiling, edges and spine ends with light rubbing. Interior with bookplate for noted Civil War historian, Peter Cozzens, and with rubber stamp of former owner, Walter J. Reed, on endpapers. Title page lightly creased; else pages are clean and tight. Now with clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 63rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was organized at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in August 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Alexander Hays . The Sixty-third joined the Peninsula Campaign as part of Jameson’s Brigade with Heintzelman's Division, 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. At Manassas, Colonel Hays was severely wounded with 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. The regiment was placed in Hays's Brigade, Birney's Division, Second Corps during a reorganization with the Army of the Potomac. 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. The 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry is recognized as one of the Fox 300 Fighting Regiments. REFERENCES DORN PA 194; NEVINS I pg 102: “A rather good compilation of soldiers’ letters, memoirs and articles—all bound together by a strong narrative.” MULLINS/REED #193. FOX Regimental Losses pg 276.