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“Battery D, 14th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves”
Battery D lost 11 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 18 enlisted men to disease in 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.
1861
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Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Edward H. Flood | |
August 5 | Moved to Washington, D.C. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Buell’s Division, Army Potomac |
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, Seven Pines |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 29 |
James River Road near Fair Oaks and Charles City Cross RoadsLieutenant Michael Hall was promoted to captain. |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July 19 | Captain Flood promoted to Lt. Colonel. |
July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 16-26 | Movement to join Pope |
August 26 | Sulphur Springs |
September |
Maryland CampaignAttached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamThe battery was armed with four 10-pounder Parrott Rifles. It did not arrive on the battlefield until after the battle. |
September – October | Duty in Maryland |
October 29- November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February-April | At Falmouth |
March 21 | Captain Hall resigned. Lieutenant Andrew Rosney took command of the battery. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 | Operations at Franklin’s Crossing |
May 3 |
Marye’s Heights (Second Battle of Fredericksburg)Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks’ Ford |
June | Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
August | Ordered to Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. attached to Artillery, Dept. West Virginia |
December | Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia |
1864
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January | Attached to Wheaton’s Brigade, Dept. West Virginia |
January 20 | Lieutenant Rosney was promoted to captain |
April | Attached to Artillery Brigade, Dept. West Virginia |
August to November |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 3 | Berryville |
September 6 | Captain Rosney resigned. Lieutenant William Munk took over command of the battery. |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequon) |
September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar CreekThe battery brought six 10-pounder Parrott Rifles to the field under Lieutenant William Munk. They were positioned behind Thoburn’s fortifications east of the Vallley Pike. When Thoburn’s position collapsed the battery was unable to fire because Thoburn’s retreating infantry were mixed in with the attackers of Wofford’s Georigia Brigade when they came out of the fog at twenty paces. Defending themselves with sponge staffs and tools, six men were killed, six wounded and eighteen were captured, including Lieutenant James Boyle, who sabered an attacker before being beaten to the ground. All six guns were captured, but were recovered after the battle when the collapse of a bridge south of Strasburg on the Valley Pike prevented the retreating Confederates from bringing away the captured pieces. |
1865
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January | Duty at Maryland Heights and in Dept. of West Virginia attached to 1st Separate Brigade, Dept. West Virginia |
March 9 | Lieutenant Munk was promoted to captain |
May | Attached to 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
June 30 | Mustered out under Captain Munk |