1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery G (43rd Volunteers)

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.

1861
August 5	Recruited in Schylkill County and organized at Philadelphiaunder 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
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 Mill Corporals 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 Run Captain Kern and Privates Alexander Geiger, Jacob Stonsifer 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 Fredericksburg Private Daniel Sullivan killed
1863
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	Chancellorsville. Attached 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 Gettysburg The 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
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
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