PENNSYLVANIA STATE REGIMENT (PSR)

The Pennsylvania State Regiment (PSR) was reorganized and consolidated several times. Many PSR soldiers originally enlisted in Col. Miles’s Rifles or Col. Atlee’s Muskets, regiments formed by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in March 1776 to protect the colony. In less than a year the Pennsylvania Council of Safety combined selected companies from Miles’s Rifles and Atlee’s Muskets to create a regiment for Continental Service. By June of 1777 the resulting regiment, the PSR, was transferred to Continental command. Within a month it was unofficially known as the 13th Pennsylvania Regiment, although that designation was not official until November of 1777.