Ricketts' Battery
Batteries F and G
(Front):Ricketts' Battery
1st Penna. Light Artillery
Penna. Reserve Corps
(Back):Present at Gettysburg Consolidated Battery F & G 3 officers & 141 men
Killed & died of wounds 7 men
Wounded 1 officer & 13 men
Captured or missing 3 men
Total 24
F
Recruited in Schuylkill co.
Total enrollment 342
Mustered in July 8, 1861
Re-enlisted Dec. 1863.
Mustered out June 9, 1865.
Killed & Died of Wounds 1 officer & 16 men
Wounded 3 officers & 40 men
Died of disease etc. 10 men
Captured or missing 12 men
Total casualties 78 men & 5 officers
G
Recruited in Philadelphia
Total enrollment 340
Mustered in July 25, 1861
Re-enlisted Dec. 1863
Mustered out June 29, 1865
Killed & died of wounds 1 officer & 15 men
Wounded 3 officers & 44 men
Died of disease etc. 12 men
Captured or missing 14 men
Total casualties exclusive of those while attached to Battery F 89
July 2d reached the field and took this position in the afternoon
and engaged the rebel batteries on Benner's Hill.
8 p.m. a rebel column charged the Battery and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict
ensued which was repulsed after every round of canister had been fired
July 3d engaged with the rebel batteries on the left and centre of the line
Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
