Brief History of Battery H 43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers

43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers
1st Light Artillery
Battery H
Recruited in Philadelphia and Luzerne 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 H

Units Attached To

Date Unit

June 20, 1861                                Organized at Philadelphia
August 05, 1861                             Ordered to Washington, D.C.
August 1861 to October 1861        Defenses of Washington
October to March 1862                  Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac
March to July 1862                         Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
July 1862 to June 1863                   Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va.
June 1863 to May 1864                  Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps
May 1864 to June 1865                  1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Corps

Engagements

Date Event

August 1861 to March 1862           Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.
March 10 to 15, 1862                    Advance on Manassas, Va.
March 1862                                   Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula.
April 05 to May 04                         Siege of Yorktown
May 05                                           Battle of Williamsburg
May 31 & June 01                          Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines)
June 25 to July 01                           Seven days before Richmond
June 28 & 29                                  Bottom's Bridge
June 30                                           Glendale
July 01                                            Malvern Hill
Until August 16, 1862                     At Harrison's Landing
August 16, 1862                             Moved to Yorktown, Va.
Until June 1863                               Duty at Yorktown, Va.
July 01, 1863                                  Arrived Washington, D.C. from Yorktown
July 01-04                                       March to Gettysburg
Until May 1864                               Duty at Camp Barry after retrn from Gettysburg
Until December 1864                      Garrison duty at Fort Whipple
Until February 1865                        Fort Marcy until February, 1865.
Until June 1865                               Outpost duty at Edward's Ferry, Md.
June 27, 1865                                 Mustered out

Lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 1 Officer and 18 Enlisted men by disease. Total 20.

SOURCE

A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion

Dyer, Frederick Henry

Part III, Page 1574

Morningside Press, Dayton Ohio, 1879

Last Updated 11 June 2002

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