1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery / Battery E
Regimental History and Service Record
(43rd Volunteers)
Organized at Philadelphia August 5, 1861, and ordered to Washington, D.C. Attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, October-November, 1861. Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1862. Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to July, 1863. United States Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to June, 1864. Unattached, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to August, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., until March, 1862. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15.
- Moved to the Virginia Peninsula March.
- March ?-September 2, 1862 -
The Peninsula Campaign
- April 5-May 4, 1862 -
Siege of Yorktown, Virginia
- May 5, 1862 -
Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
- May 31-June 1, 1862 -
Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia
- June 25-July 1, 1862 -
The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
- Defense of Bottom's Bridge June 25-29.
- July 1, 1862 -
Engagement at Malvern Hill, Virginia
- April 5-May 4, 1862 -
At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Retreat from the Peninsula August 16-24. Garrison duty at Yorktown and Gloucester until April, 1864. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 26-July 8, 1863. Expedition to Matthews County October 4-9, 1863, and to Gloucester Court House December 11-15, 1863. At Williamsburg, Va., April, 1864, and in Defenses of Yorktown until July. Ordered to join 18th Army Corps in the field July 5. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond July, 1864, to April, 1865. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, and Fort Harrison September 28-30. Near Richmond September 30. In trenches before Richmond until April, 1865. Duty dismantling forts and removing Ordnance until July. Mustered out July 20, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Lost 2 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 21 Enlisted men by disease.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 897, 898, 901, 902, 904, 1573)