PA State Archives - MG-18 - Scope and Content Note - First PA Light Artillery, Battery B Papers

PA State Archives Hours, Directions, & Fees Research Topics Online Catalog Land Records

Manuscript Group 18
FIRST PENNSYLVANIA LIGHT ARTILLERY, BATTERY B PAPERS
1861-1924 (bulk 1861-1865)
2 cu. ft

Record books, correspondence, and other papers of a Civil War battery formed at Mount Jackson, Lawrence County, and of the association subsequently established by veterans of the battery. Among the engagements in which this unit participated were the Second Battle of Bull Run and the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Weldon Railroad. The correspondence includes a letter from Simon Cameron, secretary of war, May 10, 1861, and a letter from Major General George G. Meade, December 26, 1870.

Dispatches, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.1} [Holdings]
Special Orders, 1861-1865, n.d. (3 folders) {series #18m.2} [Holdings]
General Orders, 1861-1865. (2 folders) {series #18m.3} [Holdings]
Circulars, 1862-1865, n.d. (3 folders) {series #18m.4} [Holdings]
Company Orders, 1862-1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.5} [Holdings]
Orders, 1861-1864, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.6} [Holdings]
Details, Announcing Officer of the Day, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.7} [Holdings]
General Court Martial Orders, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.8} [Holdings]
Correspondence, 1861-1888, n.d. (4 folders) {series #18m.9} [Holdings]
Typed Copies of Orders & Correspondence, 1861. (1 folder) {series #18m.10} [Holdings]
Letters, 1861, 1870. (2 folders) {series #18m.11} [Holdings]
Commissions of James H. Cooper, 1861, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.12} [Holdings]
Personal Effects of William McClelland, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.13} [Holdings]
Battery B Reunion Memorabilia, 1879, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.14} [Holdings]
Gettysburg Battery B Monument Fund, 1865-1890, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.15} [Holdings]
Morning Report, 1863-1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.16} [Holdings]
Descriptive Roll of Officers and Men, 1861-1865. (1 volume) {series #18m.17} [Holdings]
Descriptive Roll of Officers and Men, 1861-1862. (1 volume) {series #18m.18} [Holdings]
Descriptive List and Pay and Clothing Accounts, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.19} [Holdings]
Recruiting Return, 1863. (1 folder) {series #18m.20} [Holdings]
Volunteer Enlistments, 1863-1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.21} [Holdings]
Acknowledgments of Enlistments, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.22} [Holdings]
Return of Enlisted Men, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.23} [Holdings]
Muster Rolls, 1861-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.24} [Holdings]
Muster-Out Rolls, 1861, 1863-1865, 1868. (1 folder) {series #18m.25} [Holdings]
Discharges & Certificates of Discharge, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.26} [Holdings]
Daily Sick Call Books, 1863-1865. (2 volumes) {series #18m.27} [Holdings]
Hospital Returns, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.28} [Holdings]
Inventory of Effects, 1864-1865, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.29} [Holdings]
Quarterly Return of Deceased Soldiers, 1861-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.30} [Holdings]
Casualty Lists, 1862-1863. (1 folder) {series #18m.31} [Holdings]
Rosters of Battery B, n.d. (2 folders) {series #18m.32} [Holdings]
Returns of Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men, 1862, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.33} [Holdings]
Abstract E, List of Quartermaster Stores Transferred By the Quartermaster, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.34} [Holdings]
Abstract E/M, List of Quartermaster Stores Received From the Quartermaster, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.35} [Holdings]
Abstract E, List of Articles Received From Officers, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.36} [Holdings]
Abstract L, List of Stores Expended, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.37} [Holdings]
Abstract L, Inventory & Inspection Report of Unserviceable Horses & Artillery, 1864-1865. (2 folders) {series #18m.38} [Holdings]
Abstract L, Lists of Articles Lost or Destroyed, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.39} [Holdings]
Abstract M & N, Lists of Articles Transferred to Officers, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.40} [Holdings]
Monthly Returns of Quartermaster Stores, 1864-1865, 1870. (1 folder) {series #18m.41} [Holdings]
Quarterly Returns of Ordnance & Ordnance Stores, 1864-1865. (2 folders) {series #18m.42} [Holdings]
Receipts for Ordnances & Ordnance Stores, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.43} [Holdings]
Inventory of Ordnances & Ordnance Stores, 1862. (1 folder) {series #18m.44} [Holdings]
Statement of Ordnance & Ordnance Stores, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.45} [Holdings]
Abstract of Expenditures, Ordnance, 1862, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.46} [Holdings]
Inventory, List of Ordnance Stores Lost & Statement of Charges on Muster & Pay Rolls. (1 folder) {series #18m.47} [Holdings]
Inventory & Inspection, Report of Unserviceable Ordnance Stores, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.48} [Holdings]
Issues of Ordnance Stores, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.49} [Holdings]
Invoices of Ordnance & Ordnance Stores, 1861-1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.50} [Holdings]
Abstract of Issues of Ordnance & Ordnance Stores by Captain William McClelland, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.51} [Holdings]
Special Requisition For Ordnance & Ordnance Stores, 1862. (1 folder) {series #18m.52} [Holdings]
Circular #10, Revision of Ordnance Blank Forms, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.53} [Holdings]
Inventory & Inspection of Unserviceable Clothing & Camp & Garrison Equipage, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.54} [Holdings]
Acknowledgment of & Monthly Returns of Camp & Clothing & Garrison Equipage, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.55} [Holdings]
Descriptive List & Accounts of Pay & Clothing of Corporal McGinnis, 1862. (1 folder) {series #18m.56} [Holdings]
Clothing Roll For NCO's Artificers, Musicians and Privates, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.57} [Holdings]
Account of Clothing Issued, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.58} [Holdings]
Estimate of Clothing, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.59} [Holdings]
Order For Supplies, #2572, Ordnance Office. (1 folder) {series #18m.60} [Holdings]
Ration Return, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.61} [Holdings]
Pay Returns & Partial Descriptive List & Account of Pay & Clothing, 1863-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.62} [Holdings]
Acknowlegments of Property Returns, 1864-1866. (1 folder) {series #18m.63} [Holdings]
List of Public Property Received by Colonel G.W. Bradley, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.64} [Holdings]
Property Accounts & Acknowledgments of Property Accounts, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.65} [Holdings]
Inspection Reports, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.66} [Holdings]
Monthly Report of Artillery, 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.67} [Holdings]
Expenditures of Ammunition, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.68} [Holdings]
Mortgage of Captain J. Harvey Cooper to James H. Cameron, 1866. (1 folder) {series #18m.69} [Holdings]
Receipts From Hammond & Cooper Lumber Co., 1867. (1 folder) {series #18m.70} [Holdings]
Blank Forms of Alger & Squier, Attorneys, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.71} [Holdings]
Claim For Additional Pay For Servants, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.72} [Holdings]
Protective War Claim Agency of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.73} [Holdings]
U.S. Internal Revenue Return For Special Tax, 1868. (1 folder) {series #18m.74} [Holdings]
Senate Report, 48th Congress, 2nd Session, 1885. (1 folder) {series #18m.75} [Holdings]
"Laws & Information Relating to Claims Against the Government of the United States," 1867. (1 folder) {series #18m.76} [Holdings]
"Forms For Parade & Review of Brigades, Divisions & Corps of Infantry," 1864. (1 folder) {series #18m.77} [Holdings]
Post Civil War Printed Material About Battery B, 1866, 1917, 1920, 1922-1923, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.78} [Holdings]
Forms From the War Department, 1864, 1898, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.79} [Holdings]
Quartermaster General's Office Forms, 1866, 1869. (1 folder) {series #18m.80} [Holdings]
Ordnance Office Forms, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.81} [Holdings]
Transportation Forms, 1864-1865. (1 folder) {series #18m.82} [Holdings]
Pages Formerly Enclosed in Bound Volume, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.83} [Holdings]
Muster Roll With Constitution & By-Laws & Proceedings of Battery Association, n.d. (1 volume) {series #18m.84} [Holdings]
Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings, n.d. (1 volume) {series #18m.85} [Holdings]
List of Non-Commissioned Officers & Privates, 1863. (1 folder) {series #18m.86} [Holdings]
List of Stores Belonging to Battery B and List of Camp & Garrison Equipage Condemned in Battery B, 1862, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.87} [Holdings]
Roster of Commissioned Officers & Descriptive List of Enlisted Men, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.88} [Holdings]
Return of an Election, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.89} [Holdings]
List of Daily Calls, n.d. (1 folder) {series #18m.90} [Holdings]
Lists and Correspondence Pertaining to Battery B, 1861-1864, 1868. (1 folder) {series #18m.91} [Holdings]

PA State Archives Hours, Directions, & Fees Research Topics Online Catalog Land Records