43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers
1st Light Artillery
Battery G
Recruited in Philadelphia and Indiana Counties

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 G

Units Attached To

                       Date                                                    Unit

June 20, 1861                                Organized at Philadelphia
August 05, 1861                            Ordered to Washington, D.C.
August 1861 to March 1862          Attached to McCall's Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Army of the
                                                      Potomac
March 1862 to April 1862             Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 1862 to June 1862                Artillery, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock
June 1862 to August 1862             Artillery Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the
                                                      Potomac
August 1862 to September 1862    Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia
September 1862 to May 1863       Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
May 1863 to July 1863                  3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac
July 1863 to April 1864                 Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
April 1864 to May 1864                Camp Barry, 22nd corps
May 1864 to July 1864                  1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Corps
July 1864 to January 1865              Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia
January 1865 to April 1865            1st Infantry Division, West Virginia
April 1865 to June 1865                 3rd Brigade, Hardins' Division, 22nd Army Corps,

Engagements

                           Date                                         Event

August 1861 to October 1861       Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington
October 1861 to March 1862       Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va.
December 06 1861                       Expedition to Grinnell's Farm
March 10-15 1862                       Advance on Manassas, Va.
April 09-19                                   McDowell's advance on Falmouth
Until June                                      Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg
June 1862                                     Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula.
June 25-July 1                               Seven days before Richmond
June 26                                         Battles of Mechanicsville
June 27                                         Gaines Mill
June 30                                         Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale
July 1                                            Malvern Hill
Until August 16                              Duty at Harrison's Landing
August 16-26                                Movement to join Pope
Until October 9                             Duty at Washington, D.C.
October 9                                     Rejoined Division at Sharpsburg, Md.
November 1862                            Movement to Falmouth, Va.,
December 12-15 1862                  Battle of Fredericksburg
January 20-24 1863                       "Mud March"
Until April 1863                            At Falmouth and Belle Plains
April 27-May 6                            Chancellorsville Campaign
April 29-May 2                            Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek
April 29-30                                   Fitzhugh's Crossing
May 2-5                                       Chancellorsville
May 12 1863 to April 3 1864       Battery attached to Battery "F" 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery
June 11-July 24 1863                    Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign
July 1-3 1863                                Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.
September 13-17                          Advance to line of the Rapidan
October 9-22                                Bristoe Campaign
October 14                                   Auburn and Bristoe
November 7-8 1863                     Advance to line of the Rappahannock
November 26-December 2 1863   Mine Run Campaign
February 6-7 1864                        Demonstration on the Rapidan
February 6-7 1864                        Morton's Ford
Until April                                      At Stevensburg
April 1864                                     At Camp Berry, Defenses of Washington, D.C.
Until July 1864                               At Arlington Heights, Va., as garrison of Forts Bennett, Cochran and
                                                      Haggerty
July 3 1864                                    Ordered to Frederick, Md.
July 6 to December 12, 1864         Infantry duty at Point of Rocks, Md.
Until April 16, 1865                       At Maryland Heights
Until April 27                                 At Fort Lincoln, near Washington, D.C.
Until June                                       At Fort Foote, near Washington, D.C.
June 29, 1865                                Mustered out at Camp Cadwalader

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 16 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 14 Enlisted men by disease. Total 31.

SOURCE

A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
Dyer, Frederick Henry
Part III, Page 1573
Morningside Press, Dayton Ohio, 1879


Last Updated 09 June 2002

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