1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery / Battery A

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
(43rd Volunteers)
Organized at Philadelphia August 5, 1861. Ordered to Washington, D.C., August, 1861. Attached to McCall's Pennsylvania Reserve Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862. Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1862. Artillery, McCall's Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to August, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac, to February, 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to April, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863. U.S. Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to January, 1864. Artillery, Heckman's Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Defenses of Portsmouth, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1864. District Eastern Virginia, Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Corps, to October, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Camp at Tennallytown, Md., until October, 1861, and at Camp Pierpont near Langley, Va., until March, 1862. Expedition to Grinnell's Farm December 6, 1861. Action at Dranesville, Va., December 20. Advance on Manassas, Va., March 10-15. McDowell's advance on Falmouth April 9-19. Duty at Falmouth and Fredericksburg until June. 
* Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula. 
* June ?-September 2, 1862 - The Peninsula Campaign
** June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
*** June 26, 1862 - Engagement at Beaver Dam Creek, Virginia
*** June 27, 1862 - Engagement at Gaines's Mill, Virginia
*** June 30, 1862 - Engagement at Glendale, Virginia
*** July 1, 1862 - Engagement at Malvern Hill, Virginia
* At Harrison's Landing until August 15. 
* Movement to join Pope August 15-26. 
* August 26-September 2, 1862 - The Northern Virginia CampaignNot originally mentioned on unit homepage, joined day or two before Gainesville
** August 28, 1862 - Engagement at Gainesville, Virginia 
Groveton August 29. Bull Run August 30. 
* September 3-20, 1862 - The Maryland Campaign
** South Mountain September 14
** September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
Movement to Falmouth, Va., October-November. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863. Ordered to Newport News February 9, thence to Suffolk, March. Siege of Suffolk April 12-May 4. Dix's Peninsula Campaign June 26-July 8. Expedition from White House to South Anna River July 1-7. Duty at Portsmouth, Va., until July, 1864. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond July, 1864, to April, 1865. Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30, 1864. Fair Oaks October 27-28. Before Richmond until April, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Engaged in demolishing defenses and removing Ordnance until July. Mustered out July 25, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
Source 	Casualties	Remarks
Dyer 	
* 1 Officer and 16 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded 
* 21 enlisted men by disease
* Total 38	None
Fox 	
* 1 Officers and 16 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded
* Total 17 (Combat Losses)
* Fox lists this unit as 8th on the list of units "sustaining greatest loss in action" (Volunteer Light Artillery Companies)	None
WotRWiki Statistics	
* troops killed
** Includes troops mortally wounded
** Includes troops killed by disease
** All others are troops killed in action or under special circumstances	
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 761, 906, 902, 903, 904, 907, 1571-1572)
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