United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania > Artillery, Cavalry & Engineers
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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1865
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| April | Duty dismantling forts and removing Ordnance |
| July 20 | Mustered out under Captain Wildey |