United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania > Artillery, Cavalry & Engineers
Battery H of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery lost 1 enlisted man killed and 18 enlisted men to disease.
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1861
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| August | Organized at Philadelphia under Captain James Brady and First Lieutenants Frank Amsden and William Park. |
| August 5 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to Defenses of Washington |
| October | Attached to Buell’s Division, Army Potomac |
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1862
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| March | Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
| March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va. |
| March 12 | Andrew Fagan promoted to first lieutenant and Second Lieutenant Thomas Thornton died at Washington |
| April | Ordered 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 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
| June 28-29 |
Bottom’s Bridge |
| June 30 |
Glendale |
| July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
| July | At Harrison’s Landing. Private Edwin Harvey died on the Peninsula. |
| July 19 | Captain Brady promoted to major. |
| August 1 | First Lieutenant Andrew Fagan promoted to captain |
| August 16 | Moved to Yorktown, Va. and assigned to Department of Virginia, Yorktown |
| November 12 | First Lieutenant Frank Amsden promoted to captain of Battery E |
| December 29 | William McLaughlan promoted to first lieutenant |
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1863
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| January 23 | Private Samuel Nagle died at Yorktown |
| February | Private William McLaughlin died at Yorktown and Private William Donnelly was executed by sentence of the Military Commission |
| March 2 | Private Charles Clark was executed by sentence of the Military Commission |
| June | Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
| July 1 | Arrived Washington D.C. |
| July 1-4 | March to Gettysburg |
| July | Return to Washington, and duty at Camp Barry, 22nd Army Corps, |
| October 12 | First Lieutenant McLaughlan resigned |
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1864
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| May | Garrison duty at Fort Whipple assigned to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Corps |
| May 25 | Second Lieutenant Joseph Cogan promoted to first lieutenant |
| June 22 | Provate Bartholomew Allen died at Washington |
| July 27 | First Lieutenant Cogan discharged |
| September 19 | Second Lieutenant Lord Richards promoted to first lieutenant |
| September | Private Samuel Boyd died in Philadelphia |
| November 12 | Private Charles Hentis died at Great Falls, Maryland |
| December | At Fort Marcy |
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1865
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| February | Outpost duty at Edward’s Ferry, Md. |
| March 8 | Second Lieutenant Horace Templeton promoted to first lieutenant |
| May 1 | Captain Fagan dismissed |
| June 5 | First Lieutenant Lord Richards promoted to captain |
| June 27 | Mustered out under Captain Richards, First Lieutenant Horace Templeton |