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“Battery E, 14th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves”
Battery E of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery lost 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 21 enlisted men 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.
1861
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August 5 | Organized at Philadelphia under Captain Theodore Miller and ordered to Washington, D.C. |
August-September | Duty at Camp Barry and in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to W. F. Smith’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
October | Attached to Smith’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862
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March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March | Moved to the Virginia Peninsula |
April 5-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 | Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 | Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
June | Attached to 4th Corps |
June 25-July 1 | Seven days before Richmond. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps |
June 25-29 | Defense of Bottom’s Bridge |
July 1 | Malvern Hill |
July 4 | Captain Miller promoted to A. Adjutant General. Lieutenant Thomas G. Orwig took command of the battery |
July | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 11 | Lieutenant Orwig promoted to captain |
August 16-24 | Retreat from the Peninsula |
September | Garrison duty at Yorktown and Gloucester assigned to United States Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
1863
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June 26-July 8 | Dix’s Peninsula Campaign |
October 4-9 | Expedition to Matthews County |
December 11-15 | To Gloucester Court House |
1864
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April | At Williamsburg, Va. and in Defenses of Yorktown |
July 5 | Ordered to join Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps in the field for siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
August | Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps |
September 21 | Captain Orwig resigned. Lieutenant Henry Wildey took command of the battery |
September 28-30 | Chaffin’s Farm, New Market Heights, and Fort Harrison |
September 30 | In trenches before Richmond |
November 1 | Lieutenant Wildey promoted to captain |
December | Assigned to Artillery Brigade, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
1865
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April | Duty dismantling forts and removing Ordnance |
July 20 | Mustered out under Captain Wildey |