1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery / Battery A
Regimental History and Service Record
(43rd Volunteers)
Organized at Philadelphia August 5, 1861. Ordered to Washington, D.C., August, 1861. Attached to McCall's Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1862. Artillery, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac, to February, 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863. U.S. Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1864. Artillery, Heckman's Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Defenses of Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1864. District Eastern Virginia, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps, to October, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Camp at Tennallytown, Md., until October, 1861, and at Camp Pierpont near Langley, Va., until March, 1862. Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6, 1861. Action at Dranesville, Va., December 20. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15. McDowell's advance on Falmouth April 9-19. Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg until June.
- Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula.
- June ?-September 2, 1862 -
The Peninsula Campaign
- At Harrison's Landing until August 15.
- Movement to join Pope August 15-26.
- August 26-September 2, 1862 -
The Northern Virginia Campaign
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Groveton August 29. Bull Run August 30.
- September 3-20, 1862 -
The Maryland Campaign
- South Mountain September 14
- September 17, 1862 -
Battle of Antietam, Maryland
Movement to Falmouth, Va., October-November. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Ordered to Newport News February 9, thence to Suffolk, March. Siege of Suffolk April 12-May 4. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 26-July 8. Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1-7. Duty at Portsmouth, Va., until July, 1864. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond July, 1864, to April, 1865. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30, 1864. Fair Oaks October 27-28. Before Richmond until April, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Engaged in demolishing defenses and removing Ordnance until July. Mustered out July 25, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Notes
- ↑ Not originally mentioned on unit homepage, joined day or two before Gainesville
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 761, 906, 902, 903, 904, 907, 1571-1572)
- Fox, William F. 1840-1909. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, With Full and Exhaustive Statistics Compiled From the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington. Albany: Albany Pub. Co., 1889. (Page 7)