United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
“Battery F, 14th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves”
Battery F lost 1 officer and 17 enlisted men killed and 13 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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.
1861
|
|
August 5 | Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Ezra Matthews and ordered to Washington, D.C. for duty in the Defenses of Washington |
October | On the Upper Potomac between Edward’s Ferry and Hancock, Md. Attached to Banks’ Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862
|
|
March | Attached to 1st Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps |
March 1-12 | Advance on Winchester |
March 7 | Reconnaissance toward Strasburg and action near Winchester |
March 21 | Ordered to join Abercrombie’s Brigade and moved to Warrenton Junction. |
March 24-April 27 | Pursuit of Jackson up the Valley attached to 1st Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
April 18 | Rappahannock Crossing |
May | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
June | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 1-September 2 | Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock
|
August 28 | Thoroughfare Gap |
August 29 | Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September 1 |
Battle of Chantilly |
September 6-24 | Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
|
September-October | Duty at Sharpsburg, Md. |
October 30-November 19 | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
|
|
January | Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps |
January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February-April | At Falmouth and Belle Plain |
April 3 | Consolidated with Battery G |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 | Operations at Pollock’s Mill Creek |
April 29-30 | Fitzhugh’s Crossing |
May 2-5 |
ChancellorsvilleAttached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
May 8 | Lt. Robert B. Ricketts promoted to captain |
May 12 | Battery G was temporarily attached. |
June 11-July 24 | Gettysburg Campaign |
July | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain Robert B. Ricketts. It brought 144 men to the field serving six Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 6 killed, 14 wounded and 3 missingFrom the monument: July 2nd. Reached the field and took this position in the afternoon and engaged the Rebel batteries on Benner’s Hill. 8 p.m. A Rebel column charged the Battery and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued which was repulsed after every round of canister had been fired. July 3rd. Engaged with the Rebel batteries on the left and centre of the line. Sergeant Myron French and Privates Elijah Anderson, James Powryne and James Riggin were killed, Corporal John Christian was wounded and Corporal Oscar Larrabee was captured |
September 13-17 | Advance to line of the Rapidan |
October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe
|
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign
|
1864
|
|
February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan, Morton’s Ford |
April 3 | Separated from Battery G |
March-May | Camp near Stevensburg, Va. |
May 4-June 12 | Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 | Assault on the Salient |
May 23-26 | North Anna River |
May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy
|
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor
|
June 16-18 |
First Assault on PetersburgSiege of Petersburg begins |
June 21-22 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-29 | Demonstration north of the James River at Deep Bottom |
July 27-29 | Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains |
September | Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
December 1 | Captain Ricketts promoted to major |
1865
|
|
April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
April 17 | Lieutenant John Campbell promoted to captain |
May | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 | Grand Review |
July 9 | Mustered out under Captain Campbell |