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“Battery G, 14th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves”
Battery F lost 1 officer and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 14 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
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August 5 | Recruited in Schylkill County and organized at Philadelphia under the command of Captain Robert West. Ordered to Washington, D.C. Attached to McCall’s Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Army of the Potomac for duty at Camp Barry and Tennallytown, Md., Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
September 13-14 | Captain West promoted to major. Lieutenant Mark Kern promoted to captain |
October | At Camp Pierpont, near Langley, Va. |
December 6 | Expedition to Grinnell’s Farm |
1862
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March | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April 9-19 | McDowell’s advance on Falmouth. Attached to Artillery, McCall’s Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
April-June | Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg |
June 25-July 1 | Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
June 26 | Battle of Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines MillCorporals Amos Barge, William Hall and Thomas Robinson and Privates William Courter, Thomas Hyens, William Rouse and Everill Stinson were mortally wounded |
June 30 | Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 | Malvern Hill |
July-August | Duty at Harrison’s Landing |
August 16-26 | Movement to join Pope. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull RunCaptain Kern and Privates Alexander Geiger and Jacob Stonsifer were killed |
September | Duty at Washington, D.C. attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
October 9 | Rejoined Division at Sharpsburg, Md |
October-November | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 12 | Lieutenant Frank Amsden promoted to captain |
December 12-15 |
Battle of FredericksburgPrivate Daniel Sullivan was killed |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February-April | At Falmouth and Belle Plains |
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 11 | Belden Spence promoted to first lieutenant |
May 12 | Battery attached to Battery “F” 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery |
May 25 | Captain Amsden resigns |
June 11-July 24 | Gettysburg Campaign; Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 1-3 |
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 missing. From the monument: Present at Gettysburg Consolidated Battery F & G 3 officers & 141 men. Killed and died of wounds 7 men. Wounded 1 officer & 13 men. Captured or missing 3 men. Total loss 24. G. Recruited in Philadelphia. Total enrollment 340. Mustered in July 25, 1861. Re-enlisted Dec. 1863. Mustered out June 29, 1865. 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. Privates William Mencer, Theodore Miller and Ephraim Wagner were killed |
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
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January 20 | Lieutenant Belden Spence promoted to captain |
February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 6-7 | Morton’s Ford |
February | At Stevensburg |
April 3 | At Camp Berry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps, separated from Battery “F” 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery. At Arlington Heights, Va., as garrison of Forts Bennett, Cochran and Haggerty |
May | Attached to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Corps |
July 3 | Ordered to Frederick, Md. and attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia |
July 6 | Infantry duty at Point of Rocks, Md. |
December 4 | Captain Spence mustered out, end of term |
December 12 | At Maryland Heights |
1865
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January | Attached to 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
May 15 | Lieutenant Eugene Moore promoted to captain |
April 16 | At Fort Lincoln, near Washington, D.C. attached to 3rd Brigade, Hardins’ Division, 22nd Army Corps |
April 27 | At Fort Foote |
June 29 | Mustered out at Camp Cadwalader under Captain Moore |