Ricketts' Battery

Ricketts' Battery, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, was present at Gettysburg as the consolidated Battery F and G with 3 officers and 141 men. There, 7 men were killed or died of wounds, 1 officer and 13 men were wounded, and 3 men were captured or missing, for a total of 24 casualties. Battery F was recruited in Schuylkill County, had a total enrollment of 342, mustered in on July 8, 1861, re-enlisted in December 1863, and mustered out on June 9, 1865; over its service, 1 officer and 16 men were killed or died of wounds, 3 officers and 40 men were wounded, 10 men died of disease and other causes, and 12 men were captured or missing, for total casualties of 78 men and 5 officers. Battery G was recruited in Philadelphia, had a total enrollment of 340, mustered in on July 25, 1861, re-enlisted in December 1863, and mustered out on June 29, 1865; over its service, 1 officer and 15 men were killed or died of wounds, 3 officers and 44 men were wounded, 12 men died of disease and other causes, and 14 men were captured or missing, for total casualties of 89, exclusive of those while attached to Battery F. On July 2, the battery reached the field, took this position in the afternoon, and engaged the rebel batteries on Benner's Hill. At 8 p.m., a rebel column charged the battery, and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict followed and was repulsed after every round of canister had been fired. On July 3, it engaged the rebel batteries on the left and center of the line.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States