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“Battery C, 14th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves”
Battery C lost 2 enlisted men killed and 12 to disease during the Civil War.
The Pennsylvania Reserves were 15 regiments that were recruited in early 1861. Refused by the War Department as they were in excess of Pennsylvania’s quota, Governor Curtin decided they would be armed and trained at state expense. The War Department soon realized they were needed and assigned them standard designations when they were accepted into Federal service. But the men preferred to be known by their original name: the Pennsylvania Reserves. See more about the Pennsylvania Reserves.
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1861
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| Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Jeremiah McCarthy | |
| August 5 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| Duty at Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington. | |
| October | Attached to W. F. Smith’s Division, Army Potomac |
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1862
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| March | Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 31-June 1 | Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines |
| June 25-July 1 | Seven Days before Richmond |
| June 29 | James River Road near Fair Oaks and Savage Station |
| June 30 | Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
| July 1 | Malvern Hill |
| July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 16-24 | Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Alexandria. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| September | Maryland Campaign |
| September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamThe battery was armed with four 10-pounder Parrott rifles. It did not arrive on the field until after the battle. |
| September – October | Duty in Maryland |
| October 8 | Captain McCarthy discharged |
| October 29 – November 19 | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
| December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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1863
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| January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
| April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
| April 29-May 2 | Operations at Franklin’s Crossing |
| May 3 |
Maryes Heights, FredericksburgAttached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Corps |
| May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
| May 4 | Banks’ Ford |
| June | Ordered to Washington, D.C. Attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps |
| July 9 | Moved to Maryland Heights and duty at Harper’s Ferry. W. Va. attached to 1st Brigade, Lockwood’s Division, Dept. Susquehanna |
| August | Attached to Maryland Heights Division, Dept. West Virginia |
| October 23 | Consolidated with Battery “D,” 1st Pennsylvania Artillery |
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1864
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| December | Second Battery C organized. Duty at Harper’s Ferry, Martinsburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. Attached to 3rd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
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1865
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| April | Attached to 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
| June 30 | Mustered out |