. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . struction or destruction, for the assistance of the Army ofthe Potomac, as circumstances required. A portion of the company ac-companied the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps when they were transferredto the Army of the Cumberland, and laid a pontoon bridge across theOhio river at Belleair for the passage of the troops. In November, 1862, Capt. Wrigley was transferred to the Corps ofTopographical Engineers, and was succeeded by First Lieut. Albert This officer died upon March 29th, 1863, and First Lieut. Wil-lian Penn Gaskill
. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . struction or destruction, for the assistance of the Army ofthe Potomac, as circumstances required. A portion of the company ac-companied the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps when they were transferredto the Army of the Cumberland, and laid a pontoon bridge across theOhio river at Belleair for the passage of the troops. In November, 1862, Capt. Wrigley was transferred to the Corps ofTopographical Engineers, and was succeeded by First Lieut. Albert This officer died upon March 29th, 1863, and First Lieut. Wil-lian Penn Gaskill commanded the company until July 5th, 1864. Thelast captain was Samuel C. Smith, who was out just prior to the dis-charge of the company upon June 20th, 1865. FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT LIGHT ARTILLERY (First Light Artillery Reserves) Coloxel Charles T. Campbell to December 9th, Robert M. West to May 29th, James Brady to July 19th, 1865. Philadelphia Batteries C, D, G, and Enrollment, Philadelphia Batteries, 912 Officers and o UT of a large body of recruits gathered atPhiladelphia by James Brady, in April, 1864,four batteries of light artillery were finallyorganized, and with four companies fromthe interior of the State, and, subsequently, one fromWashington, D. C, a regiment of field artillery wasaccepted by the State as the fourteenth of the Re-serve Corps regiments, and when taken over by theNational Government it was enrolled as the Forty-third of the Pennsylvania line. The Philadelphia batteries were armed and ac-coutred by the city, and the regiment, as a whole, wasmade ready for war by the State. The four localbatteries, C, D, G and H, were commanded, in thecourse of the war, by fifteen captains, and the practiceof designating artillery organizations, in accounts ofbattles, by the names of their pro tern, commandingofficers leads to great confusion of identity. Battery C—Captains, J. G. Simpson, Jeremiah McCarthy and Sharp L. Willi
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