United States Regiments & Batte ries > Pennsylvania > Artillery, Cavalry & Engineers
Battery H of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery lost 1 enlisted man killed and 18 enlisted men to disease.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |