Battery H, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery

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Battery H, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery
Active5 Aug. 1861 – 27 June 1865
CountryFlag of the United States (1861-1863).svg  United States
Allegiance Flag of the United States (1861-1863).svg Union
Flag of Pennsylvania.svg  Pennsylvania
Branch Union Army
Type Field Artillery
Size Artillery Battery
Equipment 10-lb Parrott Rifle, M1857 12-lb Napoleon [1]
Engagements

Battery H, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army as part of the Pennsylvania Reserves infantry division during the American Civil War.

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Service

The battery was organized at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 5, 1861 under the command of Captain James Brady.

The battery was attached to Buell's Division, Army of the Potomac, October 1861 to March 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July 1862. Reserve Artillery, IV Corps, Yorktown, VA, to June 1863. Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., XXII Corps, to May 1864. 1st Brigade, DeRussy's Division, XXII Corps, to June 1865.

On April 3, 1865, upon news of Richmond, Virginia being captured by the Union Army, Battery H started firing one hundred guns in celebration at Camp Barry. [2]

The battery mustered out of service June 27, 1865.

Detailed service

Duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C., until March, 1862. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) May 31-June 1. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Bottom's Bridge June 28-29. Glendale June 30. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Moved to Yorktown, Va., and duty there until June, 1863. Ordered to Washington, D.C., arriving July 1, and march to Gettysburg July 1-4. Return to Washington, and duty at Camp Barry until May, 1864. Garrison duty at Fort Whipple until December, and at Fort Marcy until February, 1865. Outpost duty at Edward's Ferry, Md., until June. Mustered out June 27, 1865.

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Losses

Battery H sustained losses of one officer and one enlisted man killed or mortally wounded in action, while 18 enlisted men died of disease; there were 20 fatalities.

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References

  1. Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates. I. Harrisburg: State Printer. p. 955.
  2. With the Rambler – Evening Star – April 05, 1914 – Page 9
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