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Lex
07-31-2016, 11:23 PM
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The 1st Pa Light Artillery - Battery F, is a War of Rights Company (https://warofrights.com/default.aspx) on US Servers.

Battery F is a Realism Battery following the Instruction for Field Artillery (http://www.artilleryreserve.org/Instruction_for_Field_Artillery.pdf) prepared by a Board of Artillery Officers Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & CO - 1860

With that in mind, Battery F will strive to not only foster a period correct environment in action while on the field of War of Rights, but also a fun learning environment for those whom wish to learn more about Artillery and its uses and place during the American Civil War.




About the 1st PA Light Artillery Battery F


1st Light Artillery 43rd Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers



On the 13th of April, 1861, James Brady, a citizen of Philadelphia, issued a call for volunteers for a Light Artillery Regiment. In three days thirteen hundred men were enrolled, and their services were immediately tendered to the Secretary of War. By him the tender was referred to Governor Curtin. Governor Curtin referred it to General Patterson, who, after considerable delay, objected to its acceptance on the ground that it was not a militia organization. In the meantime the men, eager to be in the service, enlisted in New Jersey and New York regiments. One company joined Colonel Baker's California Regiment, and another joined the Twenty-seventh Regiment, commanded by Colonel Einstein. About five hundred men still remained, and were maintained at the expense of the officers, and their friends, until the law authorizing the organization a of the Reserve Corps was passed, when four companies, commanded by Captains Brady, Simpson, Flood and West, were accepted and ordered to the camp at Harrisburg. These were here joined by four other companies recruited in the counties of Franklin, Potter, York, Lawrence and Luzerne, and an organization was effected by the choice of Captain Richard H.Rush of the regular army, Colonel; Charles T. Campbell, from Captain of company A, Lieutenant Colonel; A. E. Lewis, Senior Major, and H. T. Danforth, of company B, Junior Major. Colonel Rush declined to accept the command, and soon after became Colonel of the Sixth Cavalry. The regiment, consequently, remained under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Campbell. It was clothed and equipped by the State, and received arms from the State and from the city of Philadelphia. Battery E, Captain Barr, accompanied the expedition sent, on the 21st of June, to the relief of Colonel Lew. Wallace, in West Virginia, consisting of the Battery and the Fifth and Bucktail regiments of infantry, all under command of Colonel Biddle, and returned to Harrisburg late in July.

Early in August, the regiment was ordered to Washington, and upon its arrival encamped near the Arsenal, where it was more completely armed and equipped, receiving horses for the batteries, and a full supply of ammunition. As fast as mounted, the batteries removed to a camp east of the Capitol, which was called Camp Barry, in honor of Major Barry, at that time Chief of Artillery of the Department, who had manifested much interest and zeal in furnishing their outfit. From Camp Barry the several batteries were separated and assigned to different divisions and corps of the army, and were never again united as a regiment. Batteries A, B, E and G, were assigned to M'Call's division, in camp at Tenallytown, and with these Lieutenant Colonel Campbell established his headquarters. Battery C was assigned to Smith's Division, in camp near Chain Bridge; Battery F to Banks' Division, at Poolesville, and Batteries D and H to Buell's Division, in camp north of the city, and engaged in building forts, among which were Totten, Slocum and Stevens, which at a later day served a most important purpose in checking the enemy's advance upon the Capital. Soon after the distribution of the batteries an election was ordered to fill the vacancy occasioned by the declination of Colonel Rush, which resulted in the choice of Charles T. Campbell, Colonel; H. T. Danforth Lieutenant Colonel; A. E. Lewis, Senior Major, and R, M. West, from Captain of Transferred to 91st Company G, Junior Major. Subsequently Colonel Campbell resigned and was commissioned Colonel of the Fifty-seventh Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Danforth was ordered to duty with batteries D and H, under General Buell. He was an experienced artillery officer, having served in Bragg's celebrated battery in the Mexican war. Here his services were of the greatest value, and under his drill and instruction these batteries soon came to be regarded as the equals of regular artillery. Desirous of active duty, he made repeated applications to be assigned to service with the battery which he had recruited. This request being denied him, he resigned his commission as Lieutenant Colonel, and enlisted as a private in the ranks with his old companions, but was immediately elected a Second Lieutenant. In this capacity he served until killed in action at Charles City Cross Roads on the 30th of June, 1862.

For the full history of Battery F please visit: The History of Battery F (https://sites.google.com/site/1stpalightartillerybatteryf/News-Feeds/history-of-battery-f---ricketts-battery)




Battery F Battle Record

Major 1862 Actions: Battle of Cedar Mountain, Fords of the Rappahannock, Second Battle of bull Run, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg.

Losses

Lost 1 Officer and 17 Enlisted men killed and
13 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 31.


For a full Service report of Battery F please visit: Battery F Service Record (https://sites.google.com/site/1stpalightartillerybatteryf/News-Feeds/history-of-battery-f---ricketts-battery/battery-f---service-record)




Battery F Roster (https://sites.google.com/site/1stpalightartillerybatteryf/roster)





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As information is released pertaining to Artillery in War of Rights, information will be adjusted to match. All information subject to change.

Krasak 1stUSSS
07-31-2016, 11:28 PM
Good luck! :D

FakeMessiah27
08-01-2016, 12:35 PM
Best of luck!

Lex
08-01-2016, 02:11 PM
Thank kindly, both!

Artillery fact of the day: April 12, 1861, at 4:30 A.M., Confederate Army Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the lanyard on his mortar at Fort Johnson, South Carolina. The shell he fired arched high over Charleston harbor and exploded above Fort Sumter, thus beginning the first sustained artillery duel of the Civil War. Although this was not the first hostile shot fired (the unarmed Federal supply ship, Star Of The West, was fired on by Confederates in Charleston harbor on January 9, 1861), it did, for all intent and purposes, signal the beginning of four years of bloody conflict.

Grant97
08-01-2016, 10:26 PM
Good luck! :D

Lex
08-02-2016, 02:25 PM
Thank you Grant97!

Artillery Fact of the day: During this pre-war period, Englishman Bashley Britten patented the Britten projectile on August 1, 1855. Britten pioneered a method which cast a lead sabot onto the iron shell. Upon being fired the sabot expanded and took the rifling in the cannon barrel. Variations of this system were used on a multitude of projectiles during the Civil War. Britten continued to experiment with and patent rifled projectiles and lead sabots for several years.

Lex
08-09-2016, 03:22 PM
Artillery tip of the day: Guns and howitzers are the weapons most people think about when Civil War artillery is discussed. These weapons were usually formed in batteries - that is, a group of six weapons (at least in the Union Army). At the beginning of the war, a battery contained four guns and two howitzers. A 6-pounder battery usually contained four 6-pounder guns and two 12-pounder howitzers, and a 12-pounder battery would be made up of four 12-pounders and two 24-pounder howitzers. Four-gun batteries were also common, especially in the Confederate Army.

Lex
08-19-2016, 04:55 PM
Artillery Tip of the day: The most popular and dependable gun was the Model 1857, commonly called Napoleon (named after the French emperor Louis Napoleon who supported development of the design). This 12-pounder smoothbore was effective, reliable, and easily maneuvered. It had a range of 1,600 yards at five-degrees elevation and for best effect was probably around 1,200 yards.