The Civil War in the East

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

Battery H lost 1 enlisted man killed and 18 enlisted men to disease.

 

Timeline of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery H

 

Organized at Philadelphia under Captain James Brady and First Lieutenants Frank Amsden and William Park

August 5, 1861

Ordered to Washington, D.C. and attached to Defenses of Washington

October

Buell's Division, Army Potomac

March, 1862

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 Reserve Artillery, 4th Army Corps, Yorktown, Va.

November 12

First Lieutenant Frank Amsden promoted to captain of Battery E

December 29

William McLaughlan promoted to first lieutenant

January 23, 1863

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 resigns

May, 1864

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

February, 1865

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, 1865

Mustered out under Captain Richards, First Lieutenant Horace Templeton