43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers
1st Light Artillery
Battery C
Recruited in Philadelphia County

Brief History

Organized as part of the Reserve Corps, the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery comprised eight original batteries mustered into service in June, 1861. A ninth battery, Battery "I" was formed in March, 1865 from the surplus recruits of the other batteries. The eight original batteries never acted as a unified force, being parcelled out to battalions and brigades in different divisions and corps. As a result, the individual batteries saw much varied action with both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James.

BATTERY C

Units Attached To

                        Date                                                     Unit

June 20, 1861                                Organized at Philadelphia
August 05, 1861                            Ordered to Washington, D.C.
October 1861 to March 1862        Attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of Potomac
March 1862 to September 1862    Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of Potomac
September 1862 to May 1863       Artillery, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac
May 1863 to June 1863                Artillery Brigade, 6th Corps
June 1863 to July 1863                 Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps
July, 1863 to August 1863            1st Brigade, Lockwood's Division, Dept of the Susquehanna
August, 1863 to Oct 23, 1863      Maryland Heights Division, Department of West Virginia
October 23, 1863                         Consolidated with Battery "D", 1st Pennsylvania Artillery

Engagements

                            Date                                          Event

August 1861 to March 1862           Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington
March 1862                                    Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula
April 05 to May 04, 1862                Siege of Yorktown
May 05, 1862                                 Battle of Williamsburg
May 31 to June 01, 1862                 Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines
June 25 to July 01, 1862                  Seven days before Richmond
June 29, 1862                                  James River Road near Fair Oaks
June 29, 1862                                  Savage Station
June 30, 1862                                  Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale
July 01, 1862                                   Malvern Hill
Until August 16, 1862                      At Harrison's Landing
August 16 to 24, 1862                     Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria
September 1862                              Maryland Campaign
September 16 to 17, 1862               Battle of Antietam, Md.
Until October 29, 1862                    Duty in Maryland
October 29 to November 19, 1862  Movement to Falmouth, Va.
December 12 to 15, 1862                Battle of Fredericksburg
January 20 to 24, 1863                     "Mud March"
April 27 to May 06, 1863                Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29 to May 02, 1863                Operations at Franklin's Crossing
May 03, 1863                                  Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg
May 03 & 04, 1863                         Salem Heights
May 04, 1863                                  Banks' Ford
June 1863                                        Ordered to Washington, D.C.
Until July 1863                                 Duty at Washington, D.C.
July 09, 1863                                   Moved to Maryland Heights
Until October 23, 1863                    Duty at Harper's Ferry. W. Va.
October 23, 1863.                           Consolidated with Battery "D," 1st Pennsylvania Artillery
 


Second Battery "C", 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Units Attached To

                        Date                                                       Unit

December 1864                              Organized
December 1864 to April 1865         Attached to 3rd Infantry Division, West Virginia
April 1865 to June 1865                  2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia
June 1865                                       Duty at Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg and in the Shenandoah Valley
June 30, 1865                                 Mustered out

Battery "C" lost during service 2 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 12 enlisted men by disease.
 

SOURCE

A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
Dyer, Frederick Henry
Part III, Page 1572
Morningside Press, Dayton Ohio, 1879


Last Updated 07 June 2002

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