1st Pennsylvania Reserve Light Artillery

Although initially formed with the intention of forming one cohesive regiment of Artillery, it was broken up by Battery and spread throughout various armies in the Eastern Theater of the War. The original idea was to keep this regiment associated with the Division of the Reserve Corps but the Federal Government saw fit to divi it up. It’s regimental officers were discharged, leaving each battery officered by a Captain and multiple Lieutenants. One source reported on the status of the Regiment in January 1862: “The Artillery Regiment raised by Colonel Charles Campbell has lost its identity as a regiment, it having been found impracticable to keep it together. The different batteries composing it have been assigned to different commands, and the field officers discharged, for the reason that the artillery cannot act unsupported by infantry, and the field officers of the infantry would necessarily have command for the time being.”¹…Read More

1. The Raftsman’s Journal, January 22, 1862.