58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment

58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
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Active	February 13, 1862 – January 26, 1866
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Drewry's Bluff Battle of Cold Harbor Battle of Chaffin's Farm

The 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The 58th was recruited during August and September 1861. The Army had originally planned to raise an additional regiment, the 114th, but failed to raise the required number of men. The companies were from the following counties:
Company A Philadelphia
Company B Philadelphia – Captained by Theodore Blakeley
Company C Philadelphia – Captained by Daniel Linn
Company D Philadelphia – Captained by Newton R. Bunker
Company E McKean, Erie, and Tioga Counties – Captained by John C. Backus and Philetus M. Fuller
Company F McKean, Erie, and Tioga Counties – Captained by Lucius Rogers and John M. Collins
Company G Clinton County – Captained by Olney V. Cotter
Company H McKean County – Captained by Asa Howe Cory
Company I Luzerne and Northumberland Counties – Captained by John Buyers
Company K Philadelphia – Captained by Cecil Clay

John Richter Jones was selected as colonel of the regiment, Carlton B. Curtis as lieutenant colonel and Montgomery Martin as major. The 58th was mustered in on February 13, 1862.

In early March, the regiment was sent to Fort Monroe. On May 10, it was attached to a force sent to capture Norfolk, Virginia. Until September, the regiment was assigned to garrison duty around Hampton Roads, and was then transferred to South Carolina. During this time, it fought only in small skirmishes and raids, losing few men. During a raid on Kinston, North Carolina on May 21, 1863, Jones was killed. Curtis was promoted to colonel, Martin to lieutenant colonel, and Captain Henry Metcalf to major. In June, the 58th was sent to North Carolina, where it was broken up into various detachments and spread along the Pamlico River.