1st Light Artillery

Pennsylvania Volunteers

Battery C

 

Recruited at Philadelphia

Organization

Organized at Philadelphia August 5, 1861, and moved to Washington, D.C.
Attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army Potomac, October, 1861, to March, 1862.
Artillery, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to September, 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to May, 1863.
Artillery Brigade, 6th Corps, to June, 1863.
Camp Barry, Defences of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps, to July, 1863.
1st Brigade, Lockwood's Division, Dept. Susquehanna, to August, 1863.
Maryland Heights Division, Dept. West Virginia, to October, 1863.
Consolidated with Battery "D," 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, October 23, 1863
Second Battery C Organized December, 1864.
Attached to 3rd Infantry Division, West Virginia, to April, 1865.
2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia, to June, 1865.

Service

Duty at Camp Barry and in the Defences of Washington till March, 1862.
Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March.
Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4.
Battle of Williamsburg May 5.
Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines May 31-June 1.
Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1.
James River Road near Fair Oaks June 29.
Savage Station June 29.
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale June 30.
Malvern Hill July 1.
At Harrison's Landing till August 16.
Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria August 16-24.
Maryland Campaign September.
Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17.
Duty in Maryland till October 29.
Movement to Falmouth, Va., October 29-November 19.
Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15.
"Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.
Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2.
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3.
Salem Heights May 3-4.
Banks' Ford May 4.
Ordered to Washington, D.C., June, and duty there till July.
Moved to Maryland Heights July 9.
Duty at Harper's Ferry. W. Va., till October.
Consolidated with Battery "D," 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, October 23, 1863
. Second Battery C: Duty at Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg and in the Shenandoah Valley till June, 1865.
Mustered out June 30, 1865.

Losses

Battery "C" lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 12 by disease.

Source:  Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources.Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908

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