Produced by David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Transcriber's Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the '_' character as _italic_. [Illustration: Monument to 58th Pa. Vet. Vols.] History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. First Brigade, First Division, Third Corps, and Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. Compiled By James M. Martin, E. C. Strouss, R. G. Madge, R. I. Campbell, M. C. Zahniser TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN VOLUNTEERS, LIVING AND DEAD, AND TO THEIR CHILDREN, AND TO THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, FOREVER, IS THIS VOLUME DEDICATED. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter I. 9 Organization of the Regiment--Camp Curtin--Departure for Washington--In Old Virginia--Colonel Maxwell Resigns--Colonel Campbell Chapter II. 18 We Embark for the Peninsula--Yorktown--Camping in the Mud--Peach Orchard--Artillery Practice--Battle of Williamsburg Chapter III. 29 Battle of Fair Oaks--Death of Major Culp--Increasing Sick List--Advancing Our Lines--The Seven Days' Battles--Glendale or Charles City Cross Roads--The Fifty-Seventh Under Captain Maxwell as Rear Guard--Malvern Hill--Retreat to Harrison's Landing Chapter IV. 43 Camp Life at Harrison's Landing--Major Birney Assigned to the Command of the Regiment--Transferred to General Birney's Brigade--Evacuation of Harrison's Landing and the Peninsula--The Army of the Potomac is Sent to Reenforce General Pope Chapter V. 53 Second Bull Run Campaign--Battle of Chantilly--Death of General Kearny--His Body Escorted to Washington by a Detachment of the Fifty-Seventh--Retreat to Alexandria--Conrad's Ferry--Colonel Campbell Rejoins the Regiment Chapter VI. 61 On to Richmond Once More--Foragers Captured--General McClellan Superseded by General Burnside--The March to the Rappahannock--Battle of Fredericksburg Chapter VII. 69